President's Challenge 2006
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Official Website
President's Challenge is an annual series of community-based activities started by President S R Nathan in 2000 to rally the public towards helping those in need of assistance. His call is for Singaporeans to create a society where showing kindness and having a generous spirit of giving and caring for the less fortunate in our midst is part of our social ethos, and in doing so, to build a more cohesive society.
The major activities of the President's Challenge are usually held around the September school holidays. The specific aims of President's Challenge are firstly, to increase awareness about how the community can get involved in helping the less fortunate and secondly, to raise funds for the social service sector. The President's Challenge provides a platform to highlight the role of the public, people and private sectors in meeting these aims through their active and voluntary participation, both during the period of the PresidentÂ’s Challenge as well as outside.
Besides the many events organised during the President's Challenge period, many individuals and organisations have also taken upon themselves to embrace the President's call by organising supporting activities to encourage volunteerism and raising funds for President's Challenge.
Through the generous support of Singaporeans from all walks of life, the President's Challenge has, in the three years since its inception, raised over $41 million. Together with the many partners and sponsors who have helped to defray all the administrative costs, every dollar raised under the President's Challenge has gone entirely towards the beneficiaries. -
good. another one
how much will go to the needy?
10 cents per dollar? -
dun expect many people to donate.
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Yeah ! got actors doing dangerous stunts annot har ?
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fcuk. i post in sammy boy better. here too many fckers ard.
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looks lieks nowsday they can aim only pri sec and JC school kids. cos working adults who knows how they work will show them their midde number
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pri school kid parents won't let them call. jc students should be old enough to think and know how they work. donate to them? i mind as well donate to SPCA.Originally posted by killstyle:looks lieks nowsday they can aim only pri sec and JC school kids. cos working adults who knows how they work will show them their midde number -
put the NKF saga behind us
there are other organizations that need our help........ -
Originally posted by FireIce:put the NKF saga behind us
there are other organizations that need our help........
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I totally agreed with Fire Ice.
The prata man and the rest of the poodle should donate part of their salary since most of their daily expenses are already paid by the Singapore people.
Time for them to donate some money, use your action to set an example, Not your mouth. -
i only know got yan zi
n ill be listening to her.. -
Just now I watched the finishing bit, Lee Foundation donated $1.5million.
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If i'm not wrong the Lee Foundation which donated is not the Lee which u are thinkin..Originally posted by ditzy:Just now I watched the finishing bit, Lee Foundation donated $1.5million.
U noe wad i saying?
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especially Youth ChallengeOriginally posted by FireIce:put the NKF saga behind us
there are other organizations that need our help........
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get corperate company to donate better,
look @ thos last few cheque, all can claim double Tax deduction.
all those cheque donation can be claim back from IRAS
why still target poor public singaporean, no way we can claim DTD. fom IRAS 
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Lee Foundation belongs to one of the founders of OCBC.
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No, I dunno what you're saying, post a new reply here in this thread please.Originally posted by motoway:If i'm not wrong the Lee Foundation which donated is not the Lee which u are thinkin..
U noe wad i saying? -
Actually... The way they meet the targeted amount (isit 5m this year again?) seemed to be from all those checks from the various organisations... The amount collected from calls barely reaches a million...
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the teens are everywhere with collection tins.
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They were inside a mcdonald's restaurant this morning, I was there!!!Originally posted by dragg:the teens are everywhere with collection tins. They came up to me while I was queuing up for my big breakfast. Another came up to me while I was enjoying my big breakfast. And another was there at the exit, after I was done with my big breakfast. -
but you brushed all of them off.Originally posted by ditzy:They were inside a mcdonald's restaurant this morning, I was there!!! They came up to me while I was queuing up for my big breakfast. Another came up to me while I was enjoying my big breakfast. And another was there at the exit, after I was done with my big breakfast. 
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You read my mind like an open book.Originally posted by dragg:but you brushed all of them off. -
I just donated to SPCAOriginally posted by freedom4ever:pri school kid parents won't let them call. jc students should be old enough to think and know how they work. donate to them? i mind as well donate to SPCA.
I got approached for Club Rainbow...
At most I donate to Renci ....
I think beyond donations, we are all citizens of this country, should the country take care of a couple of us unfortunate souls wihtout always asking the citizen to pay up once again ...
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tmd, no wonder my friends tell me got 1 person reject them 3 timesOriginally posted by ditzy:You read my mind like an open book. 
some 32year old man