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