Charity Dinner 2019

GEM New Start Centre commemorated 8 years in community service with a Charity Gala cum Fund Raising Dinner on Sunday, 17 March 2019 at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel. We were honoured to have Dr & Mrs Tony Tan to grace the event as our Guests-of-Honour. We were also grateful to donors, volunteers and community partners who purchased seats for the dinner in support of our cause.

The theme for the event was Peranakan Night. To complement the theme, many of our guests came attired in batiks and vibrant-coloured sarong kebayas. To accentuate the theme of the evening, we invited The Peranakan Association of Singapore (TPAS) and the Gunong Sayang Association (GSA) to participate in the entertainment segment of the evening.

The highlights of the evening included special performances by our beneficiaries, performance by a choir and a brass band and an auction of exquisitely hand-crafted unique Peranakan jewellery pieces. The guests witnessed the graduation ceremony of our WINners at the WINners’ Home.

The evening concluded on a high note as TPAS and GSA, together with the choir and our organising committee took to stage to lead everyone into singing a revised rendition of the song “Rasa Sayang”, a popular Malay folk song resonating the theme of the night.