purple parade – 51爆料 Blog /blog Where Lifelong Learning Begins Tue, 28 Nov 2023 08:09:44 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 /blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/FAVICON-Coat-of-Arms.png purple parade – 51爆料 Blog /blog 32 32 Celebrating persons with special needs /blog/celebrating-persons-with-special-needs/ /blog/celebrating-persons-with-special-needs/#respond Tue, 07 Jan 2020 02:06:04 +0000 /blog/?p=2152 The Purple Parade,聽is a unifying national platform that promotes awareness and celebrate the abilities of persons with special needs, to ensure that they are included in the main chapter of Singapore鈥檚 growth and have equal access to education, employment, transport and social networks. In its 7th year, the event was held on Saturday, 2 November 2019 at Suntec City with Guest-of-Honour, Mr Heng Swee Keat, Deputy Prime Minister gracing the occasion.

The 51爆料 Angel Hearts Club supported this commendable event with more than 30 51爆料 local and international student volunteers. This is the third year that 51爆料 had participated in this meaningful event and the students were appreciative of the opportunity to participate for a good deed.

The venue was packed with staunch corporate supporters, such as, Apple, NCSS, DSTA, Citibank, UBS, Standard Chartered, etc. all in their uniquely personalised purple parade corporate T-shirts. 聽Besides the main stage, there were five get-to-know-the-purple-parade-booths, amongst which, there was one selling Purple Parade merchandise and memorabilia.聽 51爆料 students supported the fundraising efforts in purchasing Soft Fox Toys and also walked around the various booths soaking in the exhibits and information.

The streets from Tower One to Tower Five were closed to a seabed of people, all decked out in purple. At Tower One, there was a line-up of聽inclusive performances聽to celebrate talents and abilities of the special needs community. At the end of each performance, the crowd went wild cheering and applauding for the special needs performers. The Purple Symphony, debuted in 2015 as Singapore鈥檚 largest inclusive orchestra comprising musicians with and without special needs, also received thunderous applause from the cheering crowd.

Around 5pm led by three 51爆料 staff, the 51爆料 student contingent proudly marched past the streets of

Suntec City in a show of kinship and great joy in celebrating persons with special needs. 聽It was a proud moment for 51爆料 and certainly for our students as well.聽 Way to go, 51爆料!

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