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Project Hongbao 2023
Every Lunar New Year, schools from all over Singapore participate in our campaign
‘Project Hongbao’. Students not only get the chance to design and colour their own red packet, but also celebrate this festival through giving back in the form of a kind donation, as well as a message of well wishes to our beneficiaries.
The pre-schools and primary schools that participated this year were:
- Admiralty Primary School
- Bukit Panjang Primary Schoo
- Evergreen Primary School
- Fern Green Primary School
- Greenridge Primary School
- Maha Bodhi School
- Pasir Ris Primary School
- Springfield Secondary School
- Tampines Primary School
- West Grove Primary School
- Xingnan Primary School
- Xishan Primary School
- Zhenghua Primary School
We would like to say a big thank you for each and every school for their support! We hope to continue working with them next year.
What was the experience like for White Lodge Kindergarten and Pre-School?
The Hongbao project is for helping people. I like helping people"
– Taya Belle Bar Menashe, White Lodge kindergarten student at Phoenix Park
When TTSH Community Fund approached White Lodge Kindergarten and Pre-School to participate in ‘Project Hongbao’, they did not hesitate. After seeing especially, the needy, sick and elderly lives affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, they saw a cause that was important to them and felt like this their chance to help the community in their own way. White Lodge Kindergarten and Pre-School were especially keen on TTSH Community Fund’s focus on supporting healthcare research, stating this to be an important lesson at a preschool level.
As part of their own Chinese New Year celebration at their school, Project Hongbao was a great addition, providing the opportunity for the students to experience giving back in a creative and fun way. This fell in line with their belief in Singapore’s many and mixed cultures and traditions as a unique and special way of giving back and being there for one another.
The project was very well received within the school community by the parents and students alike, and everyone took pride in the opportunity to collaborate with TTSH Community Fund this year. The children thoroughly enjoyed decorating and filling up a Hongbao as a token of good wishes, reflected by their wonderful submission and generous donations.
We would like to say a big thank you to White Lodge Kindergarten and Pre-School for their initiative, compassion, and enthusiasm in this campaign. We very much hope to continue sharing this experience for the coming years!
Keep a lookout for more updates and for future campaigns and events!
What was the experience like for Mulberry Learning @ Tanjong Pagar?
It is not easy to inculcate the values of caring and sharing among children below 7 years but Mulberry Learning @ Tanjong Pagar readily took up the challenge through participating in Project Hongbao. Teachers at the centre shared videos and arranged picture talks in class to help children understand the plight of the less fortunate, as well as the challenges faced by the elderly and the less-privileged.
The children then decorated their red packets before they penned down their well wishes to the beneficiaries and staff at TTSH Community Fund. As some of the children were only 18 months old, the objective of Project Hongbao may be hard to grasp. This is where the parents come in to share their inputs and help their children deepen their understanding on helping others.
Mulberry Learning Centre adopts the Habits of MindTM Curriculum where little Mulberrians are constantly exposed to activities and social stories involving empathy. Project Hongbao then allowed the children to look at the world through the eyes of gratitude and help them better learn and understand how their collective action can make a positive difference in the lives of those in need.
Making Chinese Hongbao was fun! We decorated our red packets and my mummy helped me to put in some money to help more people.”
– Daniel Lim K1.