A bevy of people filled the Woodlands Community Centre on 16 December 2007 to attend the Education and Welfare Fund Bursary Presentation 2007 organised by Woodlands CCC.

The event was graced by Woodlands MP, Ms Ellen Lee, who presented the bursaries to the recipients. The Education and Welfare Fund Bursary is meant to provide financial assistance to needy and meritorious students residing in Woodlands.

In a bid to spread the joy of Christmas and in view that old toys can still be recycled when children outgrow them, Republic Polytechnic (RP) set up a Toy Library. The RP’s Toy Library is an initiative of the conservation movement at RP. It aims to provide children from less affluent families in the neighborhood with toys that they would otherwise not be able to afford. Hence, used toys can be conserved and “recycled” for a good cause. Spearheading this project, RP’s Conservation Interest Group (IG) collected old toys through donations. Out of the hundreds of toys generously donated by RP staff and members of the public in the past 5 months, about a hundred toys were handpicked and cleaned by the students and staff from the Conservation IG before being wrapped as presents for the children from lower income families, and given to them after the Bursary presentation.

The IG hopes that this effort will reduce the quantity of recyclable toys being sent to incineration plants, and aims to build an environmentally-conscious mindset in our students who were involved in cleaning the toys.

This project was jointly organized by Woodlands CCC and Republic Polytechnic, and made possible by the following Conservation IG students and staff advisors from the School of Applied Science:

Students: WONG JUN MING; EISHA BTE DADLANI; UTBA BIN MAHMOOD; TAN TING TING /DBMS; WOO CHIN CHENG; NURUL NURASHIKIN BTE JA'AFAR; TEO JIN YE; CHOO ZINING; MUHAMMAD FAREEZAL B MOHAMED I; SOH ZHI HAO; SABRINA CHOO; Ariffin; NUR AZIEANI; ARIFIN; LIONG ZHI WEI MARK; SUM YUHENG; Tan Han Keat; SHAZRINA BTE DAUD

Staff: Amy Choong; Chua Hwee Chuan; Dawn Ong; Grace Tan; Serena Seah; Tan Lay Pheng; Wong Luh Cherng