Trinity Soup Kitchen – 28 September 2011 Distribution

Dear friends and family,

Am pleased to bring you an update on our soup kitchen distribution.

Blue Stars Dormitory on 28 Sep 2011

Sep 28th was a Blessed Day – adequate number of volunteers in the kitchen and food preparation, new volunteers who joined us and will be "regulars" for the distribution, "old" volunteers who continue to shower this mission with unconditional love and zest..and we had lotsa pastries & cakes from Foodedge Gourmet for the migrants! We have also received a total $2,400 cash donation (thanks to Fr Terence, Teresa and friends from Dimension Data . Pls refer to attached expenditure summary for details)

The distribution at Blue Stars Dormitory went well. In addition to our core team, teachers (..very youthful & cheerful bunch ) from River Valley High School, Ahsanul & son (very sweet young boy) were present to help with the distribution. In total, we served 391 bowls of Sambar with rice, 100 packets of chicken rice, over 500 portions of pastries/cakes, 450 hard-boiled eggs and distributed 100 packets of bread, 500 tea sachets & 410 bananas. Cheers to all !

Our next soup kitchen will be held on Wednesday, 12 October 2011.

Come Oct 26th aka Deepavali, we would like to prepare special Deepavali gift packs for the migrants. After an impromptu "survey" with the migrants on Sep 28th, we gathered a wish list comprising toiletries (eg. bath soap, shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant etc), bath towels and sweet cakes. If you would like to sponsor and/or have contacts whom you could refer us to, would appreciate a tinkle on 9189 3883 . We target to have 1,000 packs of goodies.Distribution in Little India @Isthana Restaurant, 1C Rowell Rd

A total of 408 meals (sponsored by United Texmac, SMTA and TAFF) was served for the month of September:
3 Sep: 100 meals
10 Sep: 94 meals
17 Sep: 117 meals
24 Sep: 97 meals.

Keep well & God Bless.

Best,
Janice
Mobile: 9189 3883

Correction: Last e-mail report, subject matter "Trinity Soup Kitchen-28 September 2011 Distribution" was supposed to be "Trinity Soup Kitchen -14 September 2011 Distribution"…my apologies for the oversight.

Trinity Soup Kitchen – Expenditure (28Sep2011).xls

Trinity Soup Kitchen – 27 July 2011 Distribution

Dear friends and family,

Happy 3rd Anniversary! July 2011 marked the third year of our mission and to all our volunteers and donors, a BIG "Thank You" for your loving and unwavering support.

Blue Stars Dormitory on 27 July 2011

On 27 Jul 11, we had the participation of another 5 staff from Standard Chartered and this time, it was an all-guys team ..a great boost indeed to our "man"power as they helped with all the heavy stuff !

We served 392 bowls of Sambar with rice, 100 packets of chicken rice (for the non-vegetarians), 450 hard-boiled eggs and distributed 100 packets of bread (aka "riot roti"), 100 bottled water, 500 tea sachets and 410 bananas. In all, we managed to reach out to about 600 migrants…c’est superbe!
An expenditure summary is attached for your info.

Our next soup kitchen will be held on Wednesday, 10 August 2011.
Distribution in Little India @Isthana Restaurant, 1C Rowell Rd

Meals (sponsored by United Texmac, SMTA and TAFF) served for the month of July, as follows:
2 July – 97
9 July – 102
16 July – 75
23 July – 81
30 July – 90
Total = 445 meals

Thank you & God Bless.

Best,
Janice
Mobile: 9189 3883

Trinity Soup Kitchen – Expenditure (27July2011).xls

Trinity Soup Kitchen – 13 July 2011 Distribution

Dear friends and family,

Am pleased to bring you an update on our soup kitchen distribution.

Blue Stars Dormitory on 13 July 2011

In addition to our dedicated volunteers, our soup kitchen welcomed 5 staff from the Standard Chartered Bank. We were told that every staff in SCB has to "clock up" 3 days of community work in a year as part of their CSR program and our soup kitchen was delighted to have them in our team. It was a timely boost to our manpower as we had to cook, in addition to the sambar and rice, 450 eggs (Thanks Kwai Fong, for your sponsorship).

We served a total 369 bowls of Sambar with rice, 100 packets of chicken rice plus 120 canned drinks, 100 packets of bread (aka "riot loti"..thanks to Andrew’s donation), 450 hard-boiled eggs and distributed 500 coffee sachets and 410 bananas.
Our next soup kitchen will be held this Wed, 27 July 2011.
Distribution in Little India @Isthana Restaurant, 1C Rowell Rd

Meals (sponsored by United Texmac, SMTA and TAFF) served over the last 2 Saturdays:
16 July – 75
23 July – 82

Thank you & God Bless.

Best,
Janice
Mobile: 9189 3883

Trinity Soup Kitchen – Expenditure (13July2011).xls

Trinity Soup Kitchen – 27th July 2011.

Dear All,

Our next Soup Kitchen session is scheduled for 27th of July 2011 at 12.30pm.

Janice would also appreciate help in shopping. If you’d like to help her, she will start shopping at 11am at NTUC Fairprice Woodgrove which is opposite St Anthony’s church. To help us in our coordination, please advise if you would be able to join us this coming Wednesday, and if you’d be helping in the shopping, preparation, cooking or distribution of the meals.

For those who are joining us for distribution, please be at St Anthony’s Church by 5.45pm.

If you have friends who would like to join us, please feel free to invite them. See you on Wednesday.

Jay n IrisTrinity Soup Kitchen

Trinity Soup Kitchen – 29 June 2011 Distribution

Dear friends and family,

Am pleased to bring you an update on our soup kitchen distribution.

Blue Stars Dormitory on 29 June 2011

Lesson from "The Missing Giant Wok" – For the past three years, our kitchen team had been using the giant wok to fry the sambar paste. Visualize this: Our chef will fry the curry leaves; add cooking oil (4 kilos), chopped garlic (3 kilos) and onions (5.6kilos). Next, add sambar powder (3 kilos) to the mix, followed by tamarind juice (another 3 kilos); the mixture is now thick and heavy; for the next 30 minutes, the mixture has to be stir fried and it is at this point that our volunteers will form a "relay" team in front of the giant wok – taking over to relief one another from the laborious task.
With the giant work missing from the kitchen, we resorted to using a mini wok ..and what a gem!! With a smaller wok, we prepared the paste in 2 separate rounds and yes, what a breeeeeze!! No more strained muscles!!

The distribution in the evening went well. We served a total 389 bowls of Sambar with rice, 100 packets of chicken rice plus 120 canned drinks (sponsored by from Shawyn, our donor) and distributed 500 tea sachets and 410 bananas.
Our next soup kitchen will be held this Wed, 13 July 2011.
Distribution in Little India @Isthana Restaurant, 1C Rowell Rd

Meals (sponsored by United Texmac, SMTA and TAFF) served over the last 2 Saturdays:
2 July – 97
9 July – 102

Thank you & God Bless.

Best,
Janice
Mobile: 9189 3883

Trinity Soup Kitchen – Expenditure (29June2011).xls

Trinity Soup Kitchen – 18 May 2011 Distribution

Dear friends and family,

Am pleased to bring you an update on our soup kitchen distribution ….and some good news on funding too!

For our food distribution in Little India, we have received a boost to our funds amounting to $13,000. The amount raised (thanks, Bro) will go towards sponsoring migrants-in-need with lunch on Saturdays. Based on an average of 120 migrants who come for lunch, catered from Isthana Restaurant and at a cost of $2.20 per meal, we will be able to sustain this mission for the next 1 year!
The donations are from:
- United Texmac Pte Ltd: $6,000
- Textile and Fashion Federation (Singapore): $3,000
- Sewing Machine Traders Association (Singapore): $4,000
The cheque donations have been issued to Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2), who will be the administrator of the donations ie. TWC2 will settle payment with Isthana for the lunch on Saturdays.
Starting from June 2011, a separate statement of account (Saturdays and Wednesdays distribution) will be provided for your reference.

For our Wednesday’s distribution in Blue Stars Dormitory, we have now a balance budget of $4,384.25. Attached is the expenditure summary, updated with donations received for the month of May (..many thanks to our donors – Farhad, Roi, Evelyn, Cecil, Kamal, "B&L").

Blue Stars Dormitory on 18 May 2011

We served a total 409 bowls of hot Sambar with rice, 100 packets of chicken rice and distributed 500 coffee sachets, 409 oranges and over 30 packs of instant noodles.

Our next soup kitchen will be held on Wed, 15 June 2011.
Distribution in Little India @Isthana Restaurant, 1C Rowell Rd The number of meals served over the last two Saturdays:
14 May: 98 meals. Many thanks to volunteers from the Emmaus EFC (led by Kwai Sim) for your help with the distribution on 14 May…and Cecil, for your kindness and loving support.
21 May: 86 meals

Keep well and God Bless.

Best,
Janice
Mobile: 9189 3883

Trinity Soup Kitchen – Expenditure (18May2011).xls

Trinity Soup Kitchen – 4 May 2011 Distribution & Schedule for June 2011

Dear friends and family,
Here’s an update on our last soup kitchen distribution.

Blue Stars Dormitory on 4 May 2011

With a couple of our volunteers away on holiday, our manpower on 4 May was lean but "mean"! Everyone was on an "OT" mode to complete the tasks at hand. While the "flavour of the day" was GE 2011, the kitchen team was focused on making our signature Sambar a delight and the team was ultra delighted to have Dennis back to "sweat it out" in the sauna-like kitchen.

The distribution in the evening went well. A migrant worker came forward and said "Thank you…after a long and tiring day, it’s nice to come back to the dorm and have a nice Sambar meal"…it was a simple but heartwarming affirmation…cheers to all volunteers for your labour of love . We served a total 403 bowls of hot Sambar with rice, 100 packets of chicken rice and distributed 500 tea sachets and 409 apples.

An expenditure summary, updated with donations received to-date, is attached.

Our next soup kitchen will be held next Wed, 18 May 11.

For the month of June, please note that our soup kitchen will be held on15 June & 29 June (ie. 3rd & 5th Wednesdays).

Distribution in Little India @Isthana Restaurant, 1C Rowell Rd We served a total 143 meals on Sat, May 7th (aka Polling Day).

Keep well and God Bless.

Best,
Janice
Mobile: 9189 3883

Trinity Soup Kitchen – Expenditure (4May2011).xls

Trinity Soup Kitchen – 20 April 2011 Distribution & Schedule for June 2011

Dear friends and family, Am pleased to bring you an update on our soup kitchen distribution.

Blue Stars Dormitory on 20 April 2011

April 20th was named the super-duper-fast-day! From preparation to distribution, every task was completed way ahead of scheduled time – in under 2 hours, cutting crew chopped up all 100kilos of vegetables; cooking team, armed with a brand new GIANT pot, prepared the Sambar curry and rice in under 4 hours; in the evening, our distribution team was just as surprised when the last bowl of the Sambar delight was served at 7pm. OOO LA LA!!

We served a total 389 bowls of hot Sambar with rice, 100 packets of chicken rice, about 200 portions of pastries from Foodedge Gourmet and distributed 500 coffee sachets and 410 bananas.

Our next soup kitchen will be held this Wed, 4 May 11.

For the month of June, kindly note that our soup kitchen will be held on15 June & 29 June (ie. 3rd & 5th Wednesdays).

Distribution in Little India @Isthana Restaurant, 1C Rowell Rd For the month of April 2011, the total number of meals served every Saturday is as follows:
2 Apr: 131 meals
9 Apr: 120 meals
16 Apr: 119 meals

23 Apr: 127 meals
30 Apr: 124 meals

As at 30 Apr 2011, our balance budget stands at $1,527 (please refer to attached expenditure summary).

Thank you all for your loving support. God Bless.

Best,
Janice
Mobile: 9189 3883

Trinity Soup Kitchen – Expenditure (20Apr2011).xls

Trinity Soup Kitchen – 9 Mar 2011 Distribution

Dear friends and family,

Am pleased to bring you an update on our soup kitchen distributions.

Blue Stars Dormitory on 9 March 2011

It was International Women’s Day on 8 Mar 11 and our dedicated volunteers continued their celebration on 9 Mar 11 with an "all-gals kitchen"- Teresa, Ina, Kwai Fong, Iris, Shanti & Vanessa – jived in and out of the kitchen and voila …sambar & rice plus 450 eggs cooked and packed – all ready by 5pm! Bravo, ladies!!

As we had anticipated a shortage of manpower for the distribution in the evening, we decided to simplify the process by serving just the hot meals with fruits. We served a total 406 bowls of Sambar with rice and distributed 450 eggs and 410 oranges.

Our next soup kitchen will be held this Wed, 23 Mar 11.
Teaser: For the coming distribution on Mar 23rd, we’ll be getting extra "goodies" from donors….a bountiful distribution awaits…watch this space!

Distribution in Little India @Isthana, 1C Rowell Rd

To-date (for the month of March), we served a total 445 migrants with meals catered from the Isthana Restaurant.
The numbers as follows:
5 March: 150 meals
12 March: 158 meals
19 March: 137 meals

Keep well & God Bless.

Best,
Janice
Mobile: 9189 3883

Trinity Soup Kitchen – Expenditure (9Mar2011).xls

Trinity Soup Kitchen – 9 Feb 2011 Distribution

Dear friends and family,

Am pleased to bring you an update on our soup kitchen distributions.

Blue Stars Dormitory on 9 Feb 2011

9 Feb 11, aka the 7th day of CNY, was supposedly an auspicious day for all as it was everybody’s "birthday". So our hardworking volunteers, after 2hrs of chopping and cutting the veggies, gathered for a little celebration by tossing yu-sheng (raw fish). Cheers to all for a happy and grace-filled year ahead!!

The distribution at the Blue Stars Dormitory went very well…and fast too. In addition to food, we had special distribution of Oral B toothpaste, 720 boxes in all (Thanks, Joselyn), of which we allocated 600 for Blue Stars and 120 for the migrants in Little India. All in all, we served a total 375 bowls of sizzling Sambar with rice and distributed 450 eggs, 400 bananas, 500 coffee sachets and 600 boxes of Oral B toothpaste. Hip hip hoooorray!

Our next soup kitchen will be held this Wed, 23 Feb 11.

Distribution in Little India @Isthana, 1C Rowell Rd

As at 19 Feb, a total of 448 meals was served to the migrants for the month of Feb.
5 Feb 11 – 172 meals
12 Feb 11 – 146 meals
19 Feb 11 – 130 meals

Pls find attached revised schedule for 2011 and an expenditure summary (updated with donations received in February..thank you, donors).

Keep well & God Bless .

Best,
Janice
Mobile: 9189 3883

Trinity Soup Kitchen – Schedule 2011.doc

Trinity Soup Kitchen – Expenditure (9Feb2011).xls