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CHINESE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE COUNCIL – FAMILY BONDING DAY

On 22nd May 2016, a total of 15 FOCUS Adventure partners, 20 Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC) staff, 40 Bank of China (BOC) volunteers collaborated together to give 260 beneficiaries (from 2 years old to 76 years old) across 70 families, a day of fun and importantly, quality family time. This Family Bonding Day is part of FOCUS Adventure’s ongoing CSR efforts to strengthen family relationships through our experiential activities. For many of the families, it was their first time visiting Sentosa together. Through our customised incredible race, they experienced the essence of family bonds and cross family collaboration.

The event was graced by Miss Low Yen Ling, Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Education Ministry of Trade and Industry. Miss Low joined in the families during the race as they participated together in the team challenges. It was very heartwarming to see the families constantly encouraging each other as they face certain difficulties during the challenges. In fact, the children were often the ones leading their parents in overcoming those challenges, and were a source of motivation for them. The ethos of family spirit was reflected and constantly built up throughout the whole programme, which resulted in stronger bonds for all families.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Singapore

Each team will be tasked to build a robot together. After which they will be going through the learning session on manual controls and how to control them. This will allow their robots to be unique as compared to the rest. Their final objective will be to pit the robot that they built against man-made obstacles such as to carry items and moving from point A to point B or to going through a maze or to dance! The possibilities is endless! They will then customise a message for the children using the robots built and have it delivered to the beneficiaries.

 

Learning Objectives

 

  • To understand that it is not always the results that matter but also the process
  • Engage participant’s imagination and problem solving skills
  • Increase confidence and commitment levels
    Allows greater meaning to giving and helping those in need
  • To tap on each other’s strengths and weaknesses

If you are looking for an exciting challenge with a meaningful element, The Supermarket Race Challenge! will be the program for you! Teams will get to earn cash by attempting a series of challenges along the race, in a bid to earn enough money to purchase essential items for the selected beneficiary. Given a limited time and facing multiple challenges, teams will have to plan carefully and make strategic decisions to optimize their resources, and purchase as many items as possible for a good cause.