ClubSNAP - A Caring and Giving Photography Community On Saturday, 6th July 2002, some ClubSNAP members had the privilege to photograph the festivities held for the beneift of some special children at the Rainforest Cafe. The event, organised by Hewlett-Packard Singapore (HP) and People's Association Youth Movement (PAYM), was for the special children from the AWWA Special School. The event kicked off with the arrival of the children accompanied by the volunteers from HP and PAYM assisting the children. Each child was assigned two "minders" who were responsible for feeding and looking after the child for the duration of the event. The children were seen tucking in to a veritable feast of food and were thoroughly enjoying themselves The guest-of-honour was Ms Indranee Thurai Rajah - MP for Tanjong Pagar GRC ..... .... while this lady was from the AWWA Special School.. After the kids had had their fill of delicious food, it was time for some fun and games, which was kicked off by a magician/balloon man who made the children very happy with his skilfulness in twisting balloons into interesting and incredible shapes. Then came Ranger West to educate the children about the rainforests and the threat of extinction to the animals. As part of this talk, he brought along a python and chinchilla for show-and-tell. The kids were allowed to touch and hold the animals which many of the kids did as this may have been their opportunity to be up close and personal with nature, albeit for a very brief moment. Assorted pictures - a lot more were taken by the various ClubSNAP members who were there. All in all, it was a very special day for the children, and also for the ClubSNAP members who were there to document this - HP personnel were on hand to print out the pictures as they were taken, and the children and their parents were very happy to be able to take home a personal memento of the occasion. Also, some of the children were overjoyed to see their images when played back to them from the LCD ... ah! the wonders of technology. On behalf of ClubSNAP, special thanks to Dragos for inviting ClubSNAP members to share in this experience. Thanks also to the following members (in no particular order) - docile, wildhoney, willyfoo, violett, ziploc, kamwai, megaweb, bluestrike, jimmyc, adamgoi and simon - for volunteering their time and photographic skills on this very special day. All text and images are copyright of ClubSNAP and Darren Lau © 2002.