This Sunday, we are planning to take part in the monthly food distribution day organised by Heart to Heart Service. This charity organisation is set up by 105 year-old Teresa Hsu, who, incidentally, is the winner of the Active Senior Citizen of the Year 2003 Award given by MCDS. I've not met her before, but I've known about her from the papers and TV. I am very moved by her noble act. Despite her age, she is actively involved in social work to help the aged, disabled and other needy people to lead a better life. I truly admire her selfless contribution and never-ending energy. Really looking forward very much to meet her in person this Sunday.

If you are free this Sunday and are looking for a meaningful way to spend a morning, come and join in the food distribution. It's all very simple : the food is already packed by sis Teresa and her helpers. Each group of us will be allocated to a household, and what we need to do is to visit the folks with the food, and spend some time to chat with them. Interested? Drop me a line. If you can, do also help by donating the necessary items listed here.

Extracted from Straits Times


Teresa Hsu is Active Senior Citizen

SHE has been called the Mother Teresa of Singapore and named Reader's Digest Hero for Today.

Still going strong, Miss Hsu keeps on caring.

And last night, Miss Teresa Hsu, who founded the Home for the Aged Sick in Hougang, was named Active Senior Citizen of the Year.

With the title comes $10,000 worth of prizes, including about $3,000 cash.

After receiving a plaque from Mr Chan Soo Sen, Minister of State (Education, Community Development and Sports), she said: 'The award I won today is just additional means to help my brothers and sisters whom I've been caring for for the past 73 years. The whole world is my family.'

Though officially retired as the home's matron in 1985, she has continued to care for the poor and elderly - most of them younger than she is - in their own flats.

She says she's actually 105 years old, although her identity card says she is just 91.

The former nurse said: 'Back then, people were required to retire at 55, so I cheated on my age so I could care for people longer.'

She and her volunteer group, Heart to Heart Service, take food to the elderly and also help out at an orphanage in Cambodia.