Congratulations, to our very own Environment Community.

SRJC CCC wins the top prize in the 2008 National Council of Social Service “Youth Embrace Social Service “Yes2 Project, ( Fundraising Category) judged based on creativity, impact on the community and presentation skills, the college CCA, Community Champions Council (CCC) won over the judges with their “enthusiasm” and “outstanding” effort in their “ Trash for Cash” and “ Trash for NTUC vouchers” project. The contenders were Temasek Junior College, Presbyterian and Outram High School.

Let’s see what our very own members felt after the whole project,

“We faced many challenges during the planning process because we had to make many changes to our initial project. When we were unable to get responses from the sponsors, we were extremely disappointed, however we glad that we received overwhelming response from our school and finally we were overjoyed that despite the tough competition we clinched the first prize!” – Raujiuidevi’

“It was a meaningful experience as it made me realised that there are many elderly that we helped through the project. Upon knowing that we won the contest, I was overjoyed as this amount of money won can be actually used to help more people” – Wei Qi

“ I helped out by holding meeting and organising so i felt joyous when we won since our efforts were paid off. We overcame many challenges during the planning but looking back, it was worth it. “ – Valerie Teo

“ We faced a lot of problems during the course of planning for the project. However, we overcame these problems and managed to do a good job. I was overjoyed upon clinching the first prize despite the tough and vigorous competition.” – S. Yogeswary

The "Trash For Cash" activity was definitely a memorable experience