Purpose
Our project has several aims:
• To help the orphans build self-confidence
o Not having parents to take care of them might have seriously affected their childhood.
o They might have the wrong mindset that they are unwanted and unloved.
o Thus we feel that it is important to boost their confidence, as they had a harder childhood than most others and and would not have the same level of confidence as others.
• To enable the orphans to be more self-reliant and independent.
o Growing up without the care and concern of parents, they need to be able to take care of themselves in the harsh world.
o By helping them to be more self-reliant and independent, it would be helping them to survive in the real world.
• To allow the orphans to make new friends with people outside their usual social circle
o Children usually have a social circle that’s limited to their school and their neighborhood.
o Being orphans, they do not have the chance to really mix around with other children of their own age.
o By organizing this camp, it would enable them interact more with others of their own age, as well as to make more friends.
• To allow the facilitators to gain leadership skills
o Students usually do not get many chances at leading others, or even planning events for others unless they are in the Student Council.
o However most of them do not have the time to participate in all Council activities.
o It also enables them to know more about the lives of orphans, which they are most likely ignorant of.
o This project is a good opportunity for them to develop and demonstrate their leadership skills and to learn about new things.
With all these aims in mind, we plan to organize a camp to make the orphans’ lives more interesting and fun-filled.




Details:
No of children: Approximately 120-150 children
Volunteers: we have managed to successfully involve 30 committed volunteers from river valley high school (our targeted number of volunteers has been attained). There are fifteen male volunteers and fifteen female volunteers. One male facilitator would be paired with a female facilitator to ensure that the orphans would feel at ease at all times.)
Homes we would invite: It would depends on the number of homes interested in the programme. We would prefer to invite different homes so that the children would be able to mingle.
Targeted age group: 10-12 yrs old
Materials we would require for the activities: We would not try to exceed $150 for the materials bought.
Goodie packs and prizes: We can encourage people from our school to donate their used items which are still in good conditions to the orphans. We could write in to our school to get the permission to set up a booth to collect these items and these items could be used as prizes.
Lodging: We would preferably try to get one of the MOE campsites. This list of considered campsites is listed in the later part of this proposal and we would write in to ask if we could use their premises.
Food: We would source for caterers that would charge cheaper prices. To cut costs, only lunch and dinner would be catered. We are considering buying loaves of bread and jars of jam, peanut butter etc. for breakfast as well as small packets of biscuits for supper.
When we have settled the details, we would inform the orphanages. Packing lists, consent forms as well as personal particulars forms would be given out to the orphanages’ managers.









Venue
Jalan Bahtera Adventure Centre
Address: 69 Jalan Bahtera (off Lim Chu Kang Road), Singapore 719920
Information:
• Has a multi-purpose hall and a dining hall
• Accommodation for up to 250 students and 20 teachers(facilitators)
Other Possible Venues
Dairy Farm Adventure Centre
Address: 30 Dairy Farm Road Singapore 679058
Information:
• Has a multi-purpose hall, a training room, a block of rooms for teachers, a block of student dormitories that can accommodate 250 students comfortably
• Near Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, which is a possible site for some camp activities
Changi Coast Adventure Centre
Address: 9 Changi Coast Walk Singapore 499741
Information:
• Students’ accommodation:
o Maximum 400 pupils
o 2 clusters of 4 wings each (Each wing can accommodate about 50 students)
• Teachers’ accommodations:
o Capacity: 42 teachers
• Dining hall:
o Capacity: 200 pupils






Activities planned for the camp:
Day 1:
09 00-10 00: Transportation
10 00-12 00: Ice breakers (e.g. double wacko, Chucky) etc
12 00-13 00: Lunch
13 00- 17 00: Amazing Race
17 00-18 00: Dodge ball
18 00-19 00: Dinner
19 00-19 30: Group time to come up with cheers for performance night
19 30- 20 30: Night warriors (Team building game)
20 30-22 00: Wash up and supper (rotation according to groups)
22 00-23 30: Night walk
23 30-24 00: Skit by facilitators
24 00- 01 30: WASHUP
Day 2:
06 30-07 00: Rise and shine
07 00-08 00: Mass dance
08 00-09 00: Breakfast
09 00- 13 00: Team building games
13 00-14 00: Lunch
14 00-14 30: Bucket game
14 30-15 30: Telematch
15 30- 16 00: H20 game (ELOPE)
16 00- 18 30: preparation of performances and cheers
18 30- 19 30: Dinner
19 30-21 00: Start campfire ( by volunteers who are scouts) while others facilitate water games)
21 00-23 00: performances, cheers and group singing in front of campfire
2300- 00 30: Supper and wash up( rotational basis)
00 30: Sleep
Day 3:
07 00-08 00: Morning run
08 00-09 00: breakfast
09 00- 10 00: Team bonding games
10 00-11 00: Prize presentation
Dismissal

NEW ADDITION: EUGENE, CHARMAINE AND JOSHUA TAY.
decided to expand to 30(:
one more space for a girl left(:

WE HAVE A NEW ADDITION OF AMANDA AND BRANDON!!(:
SO WE HAVE 26 VOLUNTEERS.(:

haha.jieru you beat me to it.!!!
i wanted to post that song,
but nvm, i shall post an equally nice song too(:
btw here's the list of volunteers:

• Huiwen
• Francis
• Jieru
• Jerome
• Likai
• Kaixin
• Oon him
• Ernchuen
• Kristalynn
• Felicia
• Ho ching
• Teck Chye
• Julia
• Rachel
• Darren Yang
• Hueychyi
• Chuan Rui
• Livia
• Lois
• Chin Hong
• Zisiang
• Cheng Yu
• Shawn

we need another guy volunteer(:

and thanks for joining(:

(:

♥

hello (;