By offering their time, effort and expertise, volunteers are a valuable resource to charities for they play a crucial role in making a difference to the lives of the underprivileged. As such, they are the pillars of a compassionate, cohesive and harmonious society.

The Metta Volunteer Management Department was initially formed in May 2005 to promote volunteerism, recruit volunteers and assign them to the voluntary services and tasks that matched their preferences and interests.
Volunteering Opportunities Available
Disability Care:
Initiate learning and exercise programmes for beneficiaries with physical, intellectual and multiple disabilities
Conduct indoor activities or lessons on handicraft making, music and computer usage
Medical Care:
Assist in various types of therapies or organise social and recreational activities
Provide basic nursing care
CENTRES: CENTRES:
Metta Day Activity Centre for the Intellectually Disabled
Metta Home for the Disabled
& Metta Home Day Activity Centre
Metta Day Rehabilitation Centre for the Elderly more
Metta Hospice Care
Community Care:
Organise group activities for students or workshops for parents
Conduct enrichment or tuition programmes
Special Education:
Assist preschoolers and children with mild intellectual disability and/or autism through reading and befriending programmes
Organise excursions, games, day camps and other outdoor activities
CENTRES: CENTRES:
SE CDC-Metta Student Care Centre 1
SE CDC-Metta Student Care Centre 2
North East CDC-Metta Student Care Centre
Metta PreSchool
Metta School
Social Enterprise:
Conduct vocational training or skills coaching programmes
Offer job placement opportunities or organise joint community projects
CENTRES:
Headquarters:
Assist in fundraising events or administrative duties

Assist in editorial and photography work


Since 2006, two new service components that spearhead alumni relations and social involvement programmes have been installed, resulting in a more comprehensive support network for our beneficiaries. To reflect this evolvement and growth, an official name change to €œVolunteers and Alumni Department€ is effected.
 
Metta School Alumni
This division assists the alumni of Metta School in directing their energies to creative and useful endeavours after their graduation.

This is namely achieved through helping them secure gainful employment and letting them continue their mastery of the arts under an extended learning environment.

We currently have 39 alumni members who are participating actively in our pottery, gamelan, classical Indian and Chinese orchestral classes together with their juniors.

Social Involvement Programmes
This unit serves to enhance the independence of our beneficiaries and their needy families. Essentially engaged to produce handicrafts for sale, they are able to gain supplementary revenue, hence improving their financial conditions and self-esteem.

These recipients are identified by social workers from various service centres. Our volunteers and staff will then impart their skills to the recipients and set up relevant equipment in their homes, if necessary, to facilitate their production.

Enrichment Courses
Whilst ensuring that our beneficiaries can enjoy better quality of life under the social buttress built by our samaritans, we help the latter thrive in their calling by creating a vibrant platform where opportunities for self-development and networking are abound.

To address their lifestyle and recreation needs, we have introduced a wide range of specialised activities such as yoga, line dancing, pottery, Chinese choir, gamelan, classical Indian and Chinese orchestras.

   
Individual and corporate volunteers as well as businesses that are keen to offer employment to our alumni are welcome. Also, donations in cash and kind like handicraft materials and musical instruments can help us organise and sustain our programmes.