Monday, April 19, 2010

Our First Meeting (Botanic Gardens, 17 April 2010)

1) Ice Breaking Games
- Toilet Paper Game (Self Introduction)
- WACKO!
- Charades

2) Video (Team Hoyt - The noble dream of a father)

3) Recce Sharing on:
a) Conditions of different orphanages
b) Conditions of children in orphanages and blind association
c) Accommodation
d) Traffic in Saigon
4) Allocation of roles
a) Programming [6] - Melissa, Cheryl, Xinyi
b) Marketing (Fundraising, Photography etc) [4] - Shuyi, Maurice, Shafiqah, Sikang
c) Finance (sponsorship, collection of receipt before/during trip) [2] - Connie
d) Logisitics [2] - Weijie, Choo Min
e) Admin (Updating of blog, taking minutes etc) [2] - Siti

* For those who were absent during our first meeting, kindly ponder and decide on which committees you would like to be in.

5) Fundraising brainstorming session

What can we sell?
Shuyi - Lanyards Making, Tote Bags with paintings
Maurice - Suggested $ donation from public (Need to seek approval from MR)
Choo Min, Siti - Self Made Cookies ("Those who want to learn how to bake cookies, can also help out)
Qiuyi, Jiahao - Postcards (Photos from Recce to be transformed into postcards for sale)
Siti - Tee Shirts (It's good to have a constant selling item. Easier to sell. Photos on tees?)
Tammie - Messages on a tree (Adopt a message for the children in Phu My)

Where and how to sell?
Shuyi - Blogshops (popular ones to help to raise awareness)
Cheryl - Lot 1 Shopping Mall
Maurice (if memory serves) - Facebook
Qiuyi, Tammie - Schools (NUS, Polytechnics etc)
Qiuyi - For those items brought back from Vietnam, let's take a few items each and ask our families and friends for their support.

6) Homework - Letter Writing
a) What do I want to achieve at the end of this project?
b) What kind of person do I aim to become?
c) Other personal goals and aims

Submit letters the following meeting.

(*Please find out more on the ideas which you have contributed and share with the team during our next meeting, yes? Thank you!)

That's all folks!


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