Food Drive Sponsored by Asian Tigers Vietnam
12 Jun 2019
Date 17 May 2019
Time 3:00pm –
Venue Anh Linh Love School
Over the past eight years, eighth grade students at the Saigon South International School (SSIS) have, each summer, launched a charity food drive to benefit children in the Anh Linh Love School that encompasses hundreds of children. The main objective of this organized event, which is annual in nature, is to make sure that children can have critical and basic food while their parents are not able to make provisions for purchasing food. This year, Asian Tigers Vietnam bid in abundance to support the project, providing 300 bags to store and relocate the food as a result of the project to make sure that the maximum number of children receive items that have nutritional value over the course of the school recess.
Being the most impactful, the food drive shows empathy. This has been well put up by students at SSIS. Every year, those young volunteers worked nonstop, collecting and sorting innumerable foods, charging towards other peers—the hungry children at Anh Linh Love School. They are driven by the driving force known as community building—wanting to make a difference in the lives of their less fortunate peers. The food collected through this drive is of enormous importance, for it goes a long way in filling the gap for those families who might be unable to afford to provide adequate meals for their children for the summer break when they are out of school.
Asian Tigers Vietnam played a vital role in ensuring that this noble cause materialized. And three hundred solid and practical bags as a donation from the company helped assure the food would be collected properly with adequate protection guaranteed on its way to the children. These also assisted volunteers in the logistics of managing the distribution process. While this may appear trivial to donate bags, it indeed plays an important role in the whole effectiveness of the initiative with several other missions in its chain to see food gets to its final users promptly and in good order.
This kind of food drive with Asian Tigers Vietnam exhibits its perpetual participation regarding corporate social responsibility and its engagement of the community. Their participation in these ways has shown they are committed to supporting disadvantaged communities and leading in a positive impact on the areas in which they operate. Their support aided in practical ways as well as to urge the good in others, which initiated a new wave of business involvement in charitable vendettas.
A heartwarming event, the food drive was made more felt in the active participation of the students of SSIS and gratefulness from the beneficiaries. Assisted by teachers and with the support from the community, the students collected foods of all varieties, which included rice, noodles, canned goods, among others—the non-perishable ones that would keep a child sustained over the break. Going through each stage of collecting, segregating, and packaging food eventually made the student group appreciate the mean value of being empathetic, working with others, and assuming social responsibilities.
The children of Anh Linh Love School traditionally come from difficult lives, for the most part. The help that a donation from a food drive can render to such families is always much more than filling an empty stomach; it is also a ward of kindliness and support, giving out a ray of hope with some kind of relief throughout the dark times. Food drives are not only about the immediate meal provisions but also the nourishment of community and solidarity; this lifts both the givers and receivers.
In conclusion, the charity food drive that the eighth-grade students of Saigon South International School put on had the great support of Asian Tigers Vietnam. Many thanks should go to Asian Tigers Vietnam for its donation of 300 bags. This really ensured that many children at Anh Linh Love School would have food to eat during their summer holidays. This collaboration emphasizes how great community engagement is and, in turn, supports the needy. This is proof of the positive impact that can be attained when businesses and people come together for a common cause, thus making a difference in the lives of many.
