{"id":436,"date":"2022-02-14T01:56:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T01:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/minlovecat.sg\/ssvp\/?p=436"},"modified":"2022-09-23T09:06:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T09:06:58","slug":"our-covid-19-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssvpsingapore.org\/our-covid-19-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Our COVID-19 Response"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Amid the circuit breaker and social distancing restrictions, our members numbering&nbsp;<strong>750 (called Vincentians)<\/strong>&nbsp;are working hard, by staying connected with the poor and with those families grappling with the crisis wrought by this pandemic, albeit via feasible (mainly non-physical) methods of communication.<\/li><li>New responses required, between mid-April and early May 2020, saw SSVP obtaining and giving refurbished laptops to as many as&nbsp;<strong>90 children<\/strong>&nbsp;of our FIN families. This has certainly brought some cheer to these parents and children, empowering them with the very means of Home-based Learning and helping them forge ahead in their academic endeavours.<\/li><li>We have been tapping Internet banking mechanisms more than ever before, to ensure that each and every household, under our care and support, is not denied regular, sustained financial aid.<\/li><li>SSVP Singapore has obtained the approval of the NCSS, to implement the first post-circuit breaker round of delivery \u2013 of protection and care packs \u2013 to all our FINs.<\/li><li>These are trying times indeed, and many are likely to lose their jobs. Our Vincentians are, nonetheless, keeping a close watch and we will adopt every means possible to help such people in our midst.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>On June 6 and 7, SSVP Volunteers and Vincentians with approval from the NCSS, made a timely distribution of care packs to almost all of its many Friends in Need (FINs). An anonymous donor initiated and sponsored, who come forth the care packs during this Covid-19 crisis. Our committed members and volunteers from 29 SSVP Conferences observed social distancing and other relevant Covid-19 guidelines, as they prepared and distributed care packs to more than&nbsp;<strong>3,300 FINs<\/strong>&nbsp;across Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>SSVP Care Pack Distribution June and December 2020<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Agape Village\u2019s Car park was designated as the goods central collection and distribution point. Our teams started the process a day before, on June 5, to receive the goods. They thenset out to fill each care pack bag with items that would bring a smile to the faces of our needy brothers and sisters in Christ. The packs included masks, bottles of antibacterial hand wash, cookies, muffins and vitamin C tablets. A big thank you goes out to the anonymous donor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also thank Cocoa Trees for the generous discount for the cookies, and Caritas and Agape Village for their support in making this event a resounding success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A similar project was carried out on 5<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;December 2021 to pack and distribute a festive care pack for 2,000 FIN families, island wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/ssvpsingapore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ssvp-jun-care-packs-2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ssvpsingapore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ssvp-jun-care-packs-2020.jpg 384w, https:\/\/ssvpsingapore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ssvp-jun-care-packs-2020-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our members prepared and distributed care packs to more than\u00a03,300 FINs\u00a0across Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-17"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssvpsingapore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssvpsingapore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssvpsingapore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssvpsingapore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssvpsingapore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssvpsingapore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481,"href":"https:\/\/ssvpsingapore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/2481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssvpsingapore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssvpsingapore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssvpsingapore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssvpsingapore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}