Eyes n Ears:

 The Vision
Article contributed by NUSSU Volunteer Action Committee

 “No man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Charity Fiesta 2001 promises food, fun and yes, volunteerism. This annual event is an opportunity to chew for charity and shop for a cause: for 3 days, the usual lunchtime hubbub will be heightened by lunchtime concerts and lucky dips. So get the hotdogs, paper tulips and board shorts: your spending offers you a chance at a free trip to Tioman, and offers someone else a chance at life. 

 
Pretty flowers all in a row

Yes, it is another bazaar in the Forum that wants what’s in your wallet, except this time the ‘we’ behind it amounts to 25 welfare organizations. They include charming children, ailing patients, kindly elderly and cuddly animals—can you really say no? CF is an annual NUSSU Volunteer Action Committee event, where a carnival of stalls, exhibitions and performances pack the forum to help welfare agencies across Singapore.

Daniel Ong of 98.7 firing up the audience

This year is especially significant because the event commemorates the International Year of Volunteerism. The carnival promises a variety of colourful lunchtime performances of song and dance every day from performers from places like Mu Chuan, and guest appearances from celebrities such as Miss Singapore World 2000. CF will also tempt your taste buds, as it offers a veritable food fest and spending spree for those fascinated with good bargains and new stalls. At CF 2001, you can’t help yourself without coincidentally helping someone else.    

 
Lighting the symbolic flame at the opening ceremony of Charity Fiesta 2000

So for those who want to shake the hands that feed them, you have an opportunity to take your baby steps and quantum leaps into volunteerism, through the exhibitions and beneficiary-manned stalls. Let’s live the vision - Live it. Watch it. Eat it. Buy it. - from the 27^th-28^th of August, at the Forum, in the crowd, and through our senses.