Campaign: Spare Your Change for Suzy 2024 #SYC24
Campaign Duration: 01 June 2024 - 31 December 2024
Campaign Description:
Celebrating World Cerebral Palsy Month in October 2024 - 40 Years of the Suzy Doll Donation Box in Singapore
Remember Suzy? The iconic Suzy Doll donation box represents a girl with Cerebral Palsy, a lifelong, non-curable condition affecting a person’s posture and mobility.
She belongs to CPAS, a specialist social service agency offering early intervention, special education, sheltered employment therapy and day activity services for individuals with cerebral palsy or multiple disabilities.
For 40 years, the Suzy Doll donation boxes were a familiar sight in supermarkets, fast food chains, and retail locations across the island. However, with the shift to cashless giving, the number of donation boxes has dwindled to fewer than 20, and donations through these boxes have significantly decreased. In response, CPAS has expanded its efforts online and through event-based campaigns like “Spare Your Change For Suzy,” encouraging individuals and corporations to support Suzy’s mission to fund essential programmes.
To mark Suzy’s 40th anniversary, CPAS is launching a special edition of the “Spare Your Change For Suzy” campaign. Donors contributing or raising $40 or more will receive a bronze commemorative coin featuring Suzy, with limited silver and gold versions available for donations of $500 and $1,000, respectively.
Three Ways to Participate:
1. Digital Fundraising: Launch your own fundraising campaign with the hashtag #SYC24 on Giving.sg, DeeDa.
2. Internal Fundraisers: Corporates and schools can tap on existing CSR/VIA efforts to raise funds and contribute to the campaign, or place our Suzy Doll Donation Boxes at your premises.
3. Matching Funds: Corporates can make additional contributions to encourage employee giving/general donations (e.g., inter-department fundraising challenge/corporate matching of funds raised by employees).
Your donation will directly support over 800 children and adults with cerebral palsy or multiple disabilities in Singapore
Thank you for your generosity!
Donate via Giving.sg: Spare Your Change for Suzy 2024 #SYC24 (Giving.sg)
Donate via DeeDa: Spare Your Change for Suzy 2024 #SYC24 (DeeDa)
Donate via Cheque:
- Please issue a cheque made payable to: CPAS
- Please indicate “SYC24” on the back of the cheque
- Please indicate your email address/contact number on the back of the cheque
- Please mail the cheque to: Cerebral Palsy Alliance Singapore, 65 Pasir Ris Drive 1, Singapore 519529
Get in touch with us at [email protected] for more details or if you have any questions.
Check out how others are supporting this campaign:
Just Ten Dollars For Suzy, The Girl With Cerebral Palsy #SYC24
Suzy, The Girl Standing Outside The Supermarket.
My name is Daren and I'm part of the Advocacy & Marketing Team at Cerebral Palsy Alliance Singapore. Like many of you, I've grown up seeing this blue doll stationed outside supermarkets and have personally donated coins to her. I did not know she was called Suzy, neither did I know about the cause she was raising funds for.
As a staff of CPAS, I now know her name and the cause she is raising funds for. Suzy represents a girl with cerebral palsy, a lifelong and non-curable condition. It is a complex condition resulting from a brain damage and causes a wide range of limitation in movement, muscle control and posture.
I'm heartened by the work of my colleagues in their intervention, therapy and care services for over 700 children and adults we serve. I have decided to front a fundraising campaign to raise awareness and funds for Suzy. I hope to mobilise donors to donate $10 each. Together we will raise a significant amount and every dollar counts. I would like to raise funds for Suzy. If you've grown up with her, will you donate just $10 to my campaign?
I have taken the first step, please join me to help Suzy to raise funds for children and adults with cerebral palsy and multiple disabilities.
Funds raised will be channelled directly towards essential programs and services for over 700 children and adults with cerebral palsy and multiple disabilities.
Shades by Stephanie Esther Fam #SYC24
Hello everyone, I'm Stephanie Esther Fam—a poet, speaker, and theatre-maker living with Cerebral Palsy since birth.
Growing up, my family never focused on my disability, which allowed me to experience life with a unique perspective. Over the years, I have learned to accept and embrace Cerebral Palsy as just a small part of who I am. But I will be honest, it has not always been easy.
I am excited to collaborate with Cerebral Palsy Alliance Singapore (CPAS) for their 'Spare Your Change for Suzy 2024' campaign. Through this initiative, I aim to share my life and my work as an artist to inspire others, especially those living with cerebral palsy or multiple disabilities, to live their best possible lives.
As a token of gratitude for your support, for every $100 donation to this campaign, you will receive a FREE signed copy of my poetry book, 'Shades.' This collection, my first, took 18 years to complete—a true labour of love. It features 51 poems that reflect my introspections on nature, love, and life, all influenced by my experiences with cerebral palsy. I hope you will enjoy this book.
Thank you so much for your support and generosity to support the work of CPAS.
Step Up with TalentKraft for CPAS #SYC24
TalentKraft is thrilled to announce our participation in the Singapore Urban Walk Challenge on 28 July 2024
Our mission? To conquer an exhilarating 40 kilometres through this vibrant city. Starting at the iconic Singapore Sports Hub, we will weave through various checkpoints such as Tampines ActiveSG Gym, Sengkang Sports Centre and Bishan ActiveSG Stadium.
Our team has prepared for this event, knowing that it is more than just a walk; it is part of our fundraising efforts for the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Singapore (CPAS) through the #SpareYourChangeforSuzy campaign.
Donations to the campaign will be eligible for a dollar matching by the Government and Tote Board. Suzy, the beloved and long-standing ambassador of CPAS, embodies the spirit and resilience of over 800 children and adults with cerebral palsy and multiple disabilities.
Join us in making a difference by donating to CPAS’s programs.
Thank you for your generosity and support in this meaningful endeavour!
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill