Sales at National University of Singapore!

It is time to bring our cards to the smart ones of Singapore! Having been to other schools such as MJC and ITE East Campus, our next stop is NUS and we sure are looking forward to a warm response! Friends at NUS, you know exactly what to do! Grab a card for your boyfriends, your girlfriends, your anyfriends! Make a card for your tutor, your classmates, your enemies! You already know that our cards are beautiful and they are all customised PLUS all proceeds go to charity SO why wait longer? Our sales will be in conjunction with the NUS Breakers Event where they will be collecting the largest number of cranes in a feat to raise funds for charities! Good hearts unite!

By the way did we mention that our last sales was amazingly good despite the early afternoon downpour? More than a hundred and fifty Card Accessories were snapped up in less than 6 hours. Special thanks to Chiew Mei, Xin Tian, Pamela, Wei Huang, Chee How, Scott, Janus and everyone else who must be thanked. Enjoying the rainy scene from Orchard was a pleasure with you guys.

Calling all Card Lovers ~ We have a date on 18th Aug

"We were too lazy to buy you a present...so we got you a card instead..."
"Everyone in town is stretching their necks to find out where's the biggest party!"
"Your smile warms up even the coldest persons!"
"I could thank you until the cows come home.."

We are headed to Orchard once again for Street Sales! Call your friends! Call your family members! Call your classmates! Call Tom! Call Dick! Call Harry! Anyone that loves making cards or is fed-up with buying typical mass produced cards must make it. We will be outside Wisma Atria from 11am till 7pm, drizzle or shine. Let your creative juices flow this Saturday...see you there!

Sales At Meridian Junior College!

We were so glad to be going down to Meridian JC to sell our cards! We had the fortunes of working together with very lovely students from the Service Learning Club at MJC and they were the heroes of the moment! There was good music, fantastic sales and great company! The response from the students was overwhelming ~ a strong sign of how creative our MJ friends are! Expectedly, the Teachers' Day Accessories were a sell-out with many students buying 5 Card Packages at one go. Did we memtion how helpful the SLC members were?

Second Street Sales In Orchard!

The rain was terrible but the spirit of our volunteers were strong. After having been chased out from our sale site 3 times, we returned for a strong finish, selling off more than a 100 packages! Thank you so much for all that supported and, of course, our friends who braved the rain.

Upcoming Street Sales!

Attention attention!

We'll be having street sales of our products at Orchard Road this weekend, 14 - 15 th July.
Look for us at the pedestrian walkway in front of Wisma Atria from 12noon onwards.
Come support our members by your purchases.
See you ;)

Our Catalogue

Our products consists of different conponents (or we call Card Accessories) that are meant to beautify your Base Cards (what you see on your left!) Even our Base Cards have different designs...

On the top you see the plain ones in 2 sizes and 2 colours. In the bottom, you see 3 different designs for the big cards. Currently we have either the Square cut, the Oval cut or the Plain.

The Card Accessories are handmade by our members and they are available here for you to choose from.
As they are handmade, changes to colour combinations are welcome if the order is 20 or more.

With the purchase of each package, which consists of a design, a card base, a greeting (what's er greeting?!...) and an envelope, you will be contributing $6.00 towards Simei Care Centre.

You can also choose to purchase the handmade design by itself at $4.00 a piece.

For enquires and orders, please contact us at lovingcards@gmail.com and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

How to Buy: A Step by Step Guide

Please click on the image to see the enlarge version. Thank you ;)

A Big Thank You!

At the World Book Fair held at Level 4 Singapore Convention Centre, from the 25th May to 3rd June, kHEARTs was able to sell more than a thousand handmade products in those ten days. On behalf of the members of Simei Care Centre, we thank you for all the patronage that we have received.

Our Booth - with all the handmade card accessories

Some sample cards made on display :)

Our members

The products that you would have bought are all handmade by the members at Simei Care Centre. Under rehabilitation from mental illnesses, most of them are under medication and require a sheltered working environment in order to have a source of income. It is common for the people on the streets to have misconceptions about the members being disruptive and unproductive. However, all our volunteers at Simei Care Centre can disproof that myth and reveal the fact that it has been a joy working with the members, who are just ordinary people like you and me.

Our members and volunteers working together

Who are we?

kHEARTs is a social entreprise that seeks to provide a sustainable income for the members at Simei Care Centre. It is managed by a team S.A.N.E ~Simply A Nice Expression of 4 students from the National University of Singapore. The venture first started out under the Citibank-YMCA Youth for Causes 2007 competition, which is an event under the umbrella of President's Challenge 2007.

In the initial stage of planning, the following aims are mapped out:

• Help the members reintegrate back into the community.
- Objective: help them to acquire simple art and craft skills, as well as social skills where they can be at the project site to promote their products. Opportunities are thus provided for them to take baby steps to interact with the public which will eventually help dispel the misconceptions about them, and also help these members to relate to the public.

• Reduce their negative symptoms such as the lack of motivation, confidence as well as low self-esteem.
- Objective: To empower them where their skills are ‘purchased’ thus showing that they are abled-people who can be self-sufficient, and that their products are bought by people not out of sympathy but as a necessity.

• Reduce the stigma which is associated with mental illness where “public perception of insanity is a major barrier to treatment”
- Objective: To increase public awareness of mental health stigma and discrimination. Through interaction with the members and by means of our publicity stunts that will let the public learn more about mental illness , will work towards the aim of dispelling myths of people with mental health problems. This objective is based on the Systems Theory, where the environment of an individual affects his/her well-being. Hence, having stronger social support will help the members to cope better with their rehabilitation process.

Based on these aims, the following goals are set:

Short-term goals
• To instill more motivation, confidence and increase self-esteem of the members
• To help them to be more self-sufficient, where this project hope to provide economic sustainability in the members involved
• To increase public awareness of mental health stigma

Long-term goals
• To help them reintegrate into the society through acquiring of social skills by interaction opportunities provided by this project
• To dispel myths and misconceptions associated with people who suffers from mental illness