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Duke-NUS brings festive joy to seniors with lantern-making demonstration

In celebration of the Mooncake Festival, and in support of the SingHealth President’s Challenge 2021, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore General Hospital and National Dental Centre Singapore organised a lantern-making demonstration via Zoom on 10 September for the seniors at Yong-en Care Centre.

Duke-NUS prepared lantern-making kits in advance to help the seniors in their creation. In the spirit of giving and festive cheer, award-winning caterer, Neo Group kindly sponsored a set of mooncakes for every senior.

A Big Thank You to Neo Group for sponsoring the mooncakes.


Seniors enjoying the session in the comfort of their own homes.

The seniors and volunteers bonded over the session as they learnt the skills of lantern making amid plenty of laughter. The event was a success with the seniors singing praises for the lantern-making demonstration and the mooncakes. Some of them even said that they plan to make more lanterns.


Seniors displaying their masterpieces.

SingHealth President's Challenge is an annual fundraising campaign to raise funds for benefitting agencies supported by the President’s Challenge.

This year’s theme is Compassion with #OneKindAct and the five adopted benefitting agencies are SingHealth Fund (CGH HomeCare Assist), South Central Community Family Service Centre, Yong-en Care Centre, Metta Welfare Association and Rainbow Centre. These agencies offer their assistance to the needy, disabled, those with special needs as well as other vulnerable groups.  Duke-NUS is proud to be a part of this campaign to bring joy to needy beneficiaries amid these challenging times.

For more information on SingHealth President's Challenge, click here