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As the jolly holiday season draws near every December, more than 100 students from NTU are recruited to learn hand signs and perform “songs” for the public at various shopping malls. What’s unusual is that the performances are not meant to showcase instrumental or vocal capabilities. Instead, volunteers would choreograph a performance based on hand signs depicting the lyrics.
This annual outreach initiative by volunteers is designed not only to entertain, but to educate as the students seek to promote understanding of the world of persons with hearing impairment, and how easy it is for to understand each other, if a little effort is made.
About Welfare Services Club (WSC)
Founded in 1985, the Welfare Services Club (WSC) is a non-academic constituent club in NTU that provides an umbrella of voluntary activities for all students.With a current strength of about a thousand members, WSC is constantly seeking to extend its outreach to the underprivileged in society.
Currently, WSC runs 7 Regular Service Projects (RSPs), serving the Elderly,Children, Hearing Impaired, Intellectually Disabled, Physically Challenged,Visually Handicapped, and Youths-at-risk. These RSPs consist of volunteers serving the beneficiaries weekly at various locations in ways such as conducting personal development workshops and leisure activities, and giving academic mentoring.
On top of that, WSC also runs 6 Special Projects (SPs) and 4 Supporting Committees (SCs) to provide additional support to beneficiaries, both local and overseas. These projects involve the planning and execution of ad hoc events throughout the year.