RCY North District Youth Officer Sharing session

I did a sharing together with Mrs Lai on the Red Cross Activties which we conduct in our school and how we managed to get a Silver for the Excellent Unit Award for the last 2 years on Sat 7th Oct.

Mrs Lai went through the 1st 5 criterias and I went through the next 5 criterias for the EUA. This is the powerpoint for EUA which we had presented. Just wondering whether I appeared as nervous in front of so many teacher officers? Well I had Mrs Lai's support!

I also devised a spreadsheet which the teachers can use to calculate their scores to check whether they are able to attain the Award and I posted it up on the Red Cross website. This is the Excel Spreadsheet I devised to calculate the EUA points. It was also the official launch of the North District RCY Website I also helped them compressed and posted a video on the North District Camp on the web: North District Camp 2006 Video .

Recalling back the days when I actually volunteered to take over Red Cross - I was formerly in-charge of the Green Club and I must say I did not have the Green Fingers and I had no interest in it. The teacher-in-charge of Red Cross then was leaving and I went up to Mr Khoo to volunteer to take over as I was formerly with the St John Ambulance Brigade. I struggled over the first year - however I was fortunate to have very responsible VIs - Annie and King Wei. 

Recruitment was good and our unit grew to be over 100! I appealed to Mr Khoo for an assistant but the ones assigned to our unit left very soon (hardly a year), I think our unit was very fortunate to have Mrs Lai being assigned as the other teacher-in-charge. Before she joined in - we only managed a Bronze award for the Community Service. I was too overwhelmed with work alone and could not really see into building up the cadet's proficiency in getting the badges. When she joined in the unit, the two of us went through the Youth Officer course and we passed the SFA. This actually contributed to part of the score for the EUA. We also work together on many of the activities as well as the camp.

I am proud to say that all these paid off as we acheived the Silver Award for EUA as well as the Gold Award for Community Service for the past two years. I am happy that we attained the awards as it would benefit our cadets in their CCA points. As mentioned earlier - I feel a lot for our Red Cross Unit - I always feel that our cadets are angels who are willing to volunteer their help for community work and are able to contribute to the good of our society as first aiders.

I would like to say a big thank you to Mrs Lai and also that I am proud of our HS Red Cross unit.