February 12, 2020

Thank you!

Dear all, thank you for your incredible generosity! In less than 24 hours, you’ve helped us exceed the $15k target. We are blown away by how Singapore has rallied around what started out as a humble little campaign to do just a little more for our healthcare workers.

As the campaign continues to gain momentum, we have decided to increase the target to $25k, in order to appreciate more healthcare workers. While the first $15k will indeed go to coffee treats, we are looking into either increasing the number of cups across even more healthcare institutions or using the additional amount raised to support other verified initiatives that are also helping healthcare workers in this time. We’ll keep you posted!

In the meantime, we have decided to adjust the length of this campaign, to end by 13 Feb (Thurs) 11:59pm.

We would also like to address some of the very real concerns we’ve heard:

Why Starbucks/Coffee Bean instead of cheaper alternatives?
(1) Starbucks/Coffee Bean allow the use of their gift cards, which in turn allows us to track the usage. Points accumulated can also be redeemed for more free cups!
(2) Starbucks/Coffee Bean are the only 24/7 coffee joints in some of the healthcare institutions.
(3) We think healthcare workers deserve a treat, and when we asked around, a Starbucks/Coffee Bean coffee was what some healthcare worker friends suggested.

Isn’t Starbucks/Coffee Bean gaining a lot of free marketing and sales from this?
Yes, and we would like to state up front that none of us is a staff or related to anyone who is! On our end, we have been trying to contact the companies to see if we can work out an arrangement to stretch every dollar donated.

Thanks guys!

Peace,
Operation #BoosterShot

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