As our Key Clubs are part of the larger international Kiwanis family, our SJII Key Club participated in the global service event, Kiwanis One Day 2017, an event where Key Clubs all over the world join together in a day of service on the fourth Saturday of October.
As a club, SJII started brainstorming potential service partners who were open to having their entire club of around 25 people help serve on Kiwanis One Day. Their final choice was Willing Hearts, a volunteer-run and non-profit soup kitchen that provides about 5,000 meals daily to over 40 locations in Singapore all year round.
During the Sunday itself, our SJII Key Club members arrived at around 11:30 AM and started helping prepare the ingredients for Willing Hearts by 12 PM. In the beginning, our young members were a little confused as there wasn’t enough staff to teach them 
exactly what to do and how to do it. But, as a team, our members learned from one other, passing on their newly acquired knowledge to each other on how to cut the vegetables the way Willing Hearts wanted it prepared and by the time they knew it, they were getting into the groove of things. Peeling, washing, grinding carrots, chopping, peeling, and even arranging Japanese Greens!
It is tough work preparing meals for so many people, and our SJII Key Club members can now fully grasp the hard work behind a simple meal, and it is a meal that can mean so much to the recipients. They have definitely contributed meaningfully since the kitchen needed as much help as they could get in preparing the ingredients for their large scale operations. By the time our members finished their two and a half hours of service for Kiwanis One Day, the members of the club certainly grew closer and stronger. Their executive committee hopes to continue this event for the years
to come!
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