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Nov 4, 2009
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It was the first time in 13 years that Gan Beet Phang had received so many flowers. -- ST PHOTO: STEPHANIE YEOW
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CLEANER Gan Beet Phang, 60, was greeted on Tuesday with a bunch of 35 cheery yellow gerberas from colleagues who wanted to thank her for being kind and helpful. 'I've been working for 13 years and this is the first time I've received so many flowers,' said the happy mother of three, who clears tables at Suntec's food court. If the Singapore Kindness Movement (SKM) has its way, many more people will get floral tributes on World Kindness Day next week. It has 45,000 daisies to give away that day to those who want a flower to give to a kind person. The blooms will be distributed at more than 60 venues, including Orchard Road and Raffles Place. The kindness movement took off here in 1997; World Kindness Day has been observed in several countries since 1998. That day, Nov 13, will also be marked by pupils at 31 primary schools, who will make fold-it- yourself paper flowers to give away. Aware of cynics who pooh-pooh the idea of promoting kindness, SKM general manager Teh Thien Yew declared that the movement is here to stay, and it will support, in any way it can, efforts to spread a little graciousness, even if these are small gestures.
Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times
LEOW SI WAN
Nov 4, 2009
Flowers make her day <!--10 min-->
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It was the first time in 13 years that Gan Beet Phang had received so many flowers. -- ST PHOTO: STEPHANIE YEOW
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CLEANER Gan Beet Phang, 60, was greeted on Tuesday with a bunch of 35 cheery yellow gerberas from colleagues who wanted to thank her for being kind and helpful. 'I've been working for 13 years and this is the first time I've received so many flowers,' said the happy mother of three, who clears tables at Suntec's food court. If the Singapore Kindness Movement (SKM) has its way, many more people will get floral tributes on World Kindness Day next week. It has 45,000 daisies to give away that day to those who want a flower to give to a kind person. The blooms will be distributed at more than 60 venues, including Orchard Road and Raffles Place. The kindness movement took off here in 1997; World Kindness Day has been observed in several countries since 1998. That day, Nov 13, will also be marked by pupils at 31 primary schools, who will make fold-it- yourself paper flowers to give away. Aware of cynics who pooh-pooh the idea of promoting kindness, SKM general manager Teh Thien Yew declared that the movement is here to stay, and it will support, in any way it can, efforts to spread a little graciousness, even if these are small gestures.
Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times
LEOW SI WAN
