Meeting 8th March 2007.

Dear All,

The meeting tomorrow is on, at the usual time, usual place.

Agenda is as follows:

1. Admin matters
2. Updates by various cells on status
3. Improvement discussions
4. End


As usual, if you cannot make it, please inform either me or Nuanxin or Winnie.



The following are things to consider:


Donations

Consider getting science materials from JCs, or secondary schools, that are clearing the labs etc. The status of the donations need to be updated as well - some progress is appreciated. I hope everybody has been asking their family and friends for books and clothes and all.

If possible, I hope there's a way we can get an encyclopedia set. A set of story books like Enid Blytons are good to have as well, so that we can fill up the library that we are setting up over there with books. This can be a double-job by Marketing as well, if you all can approach some publishers that are willing to sponsor encyclopedia sets or Enid Blytons or whatever.

A lot of the high schools require science reference books, which are essentially OUR textbooks - university level texts. Try to get these. If we really have no way of getting them, we may actually have to BUY second hand, which I don't think is a good idea.

Please remind me to pass you Xiaoming's contact. He got lots of books to supply. Not sure what level etc though.


Marketing

Please try to have a list of sponsors that we want to try approaching. Stationery sponsors, book sponsors if any, any shops clearing out their last seasons' fashion clothes, whatever. The more and the faster we can settle on this, the better.

Many companies out there (see their websites / annual reports) actually have a section in their "about us" devoted to "our company and the community", and describes what kind of community work they support, etc etc. Have a good read through their profiles before sending out a letter - at least you know how they support the community and what are their values - include these in your letters to let them know that you've actually READ their company profiles, and that you want to bring yourselves in sync with them.

Yung Chuan has checked out on NLB exhibition space. Is it the Bugis NLB? Please update me tomorrow on this.


Bazaar

We have a few problems. Just spoke to OSA at length today, and the issue is that we can only have 3 days instead of 4 days. So there, no such thing as 4-day bazaars. Yes I know it feels like we kena con and all that, but there's nothing we can do. If we want to have a mini bazaar, or an alternative way to raise the funds, please think about it.

Foods, need to have NEA license.

For everything else, please remind me to update you girls (Mindy and Ruth) tomorrow.




All
Please remember to go for medical checkup. Get your jabs.

We may need to collect extra $$$ (more than $500, maybe about $200-$300 more) from you guys to offset our possible lack of funds. We will reimburse at the end of the project.

Pre-trip/Pre-expedition project may be conducted between the week of May 8th - May 16th. It will be a two-hour to half-day affair. Short and sweet.

It's a huge rush in March.. I hope everyone's prepared. We need to get lots of things done in this 3 weeks (yes from weekly meetings and short descriptions, it all doesn't seem a lot, but it IS a lot), so we can try to break the whole thing during the first week of April, and we can all go mug for our exams. Hang in there!


Alright see you all tomorrow.

Glyn.

:)