Since my last post about 5 Rivers GC, we’ve made a huge progress.
We’ve had organised charitable basketball game between students and
teacher to collect money for helping anti-drug campaign in Punjab,
India. Everyone in our GC community had their own task and contributed
to the project in its own way. Some were in charge of organising the
event, like asking the high school office to allow using the sports
hall. Others were in charge of posters, sending invitations and making
posts on our grade 11 page. There were those who were collecting
money. Me and two other girls were in charge of making donation boxes
and collecting the money from all who wanted to donate the money in
front of the entrance to the sports hall during the event. We were
preparing boxes the night before the event. We’ve printed our GC label
and sticked it on them and cut a hole on top for cash and coins.
During the charity basketball game many people have donated their
money, what was very important for all of us is participants of 5
Rivers GC. We were preparing this event for a long time and we were
reading and watching movies about Punjab’s drug addiction to be more
knowledgeable about the issue and to be able to raise the awareness of
other people about it. As the result of the event we’ve collected
around S$200 and send it to our main organisation in Punjab.
This few month in the GC have completely changed my understanding of
drug-addiction and its reason. It made me become more aware of how
people are struggling by having this addiction. All our GC staff are
involved in this issue and we all sincerely want to help fight the
drug addiction and bring awareness to other students and teachers. I
am glad that 5 Rivers GC gave me an opportunity to be a part of this
movement. Soon, we are going to get our GC t-shirts and I will be so
proud to wear it. Can’t wait to learn more about it in our future
sessions and help change something in the world.