At the start of the project, we planned to close up the generation gap currently present. Hence, we held the Hwa Chong Founder’s day CIP on 25^th of March. The students went to Silra Home, Ju Eng Home, Saint Vincent Home, Saint Theresa’s Home and Bethany Methodist Nursing Home to engage in CIP and interact with the elderly. The purpose of this trip is for us to observe what are the common obstacles faced by all when they want to reach out to the elderly. Our team was separated to four destinations to observe while the students carry out their pre-planned CIP. 

After the Founder’s day CIP, we collected feedback, collated our observations and started brainstorming what can we do to help those who want to reach out to the elderly to succeed in achieving what they want. Hence we planned to prepare a resource package which would be a guide for people to hold CIP when relating to elderly.  

We separate the jobs according the different sections of the book. The sections of the book include rules to treat the elderly right, ice-breakers, meaningful activities to carry out with them and the last section is hokkien learning. This section is the main part of our resource package. This section contains basic hokkien language that might most likely be used in a conversation. Besides, we plan to include a audio CD so as to help our target audience in pronouncing hokkien as precisely as possible. 

We chose Hokkien because it’s the most common dialect used in Singapore. We’ll seek to make the resource package as complete as possible. Hence we will conduct a survey to further improve is so as to allow those people to reach out to the elderly effectively. 

When the book is completed, we will start to compile it together and collaborate with hokkien huay guan which will help us in improving the resource package and publish it as a commonly accessible guidebook. Besides that, we will post all our resources onto the net to make it available to those who are working with elderly and allow our resource package to leave a lasting impact in the community.