CJC students rice to the challenge
Straits Times 19 Apr 08;
Luke Mathew Tan, a second-year student at Catholic Junior College (CJC) and public affairs director of its Interact Club, sits on bags of rice collected for a rice drive. The drive is part of a bigger initiative called Rice To The Occasion organised by Unifem Singapore, a non-profit group.
The rice collected will be given to destitute migrant workers living in the Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (Home) shelter. Home is a civil society group looking into the welfare and rights of migrant workers in Singapore.
The drive at CJC was organised by its Interact Club, a pro-charity group. Mrs Renee Lee, the club's teacher-in-charge, said: 'We noticed the price hikes in local food, so after doing some research, we found that Unifem and its rice drive were very suited to our cause.'
The total amount of rice collected was 2,394kg, about seven times the amount collected by Raffles Girls' School in an earlier drive.
