5 years have passed since the youth group in Wat Ananda was renamed from the Ananda Metyarama Buddhist Youth Circle (AMBYC) to Wat Ananda Youth (WAY).  In the past 5 years, we organised a number of activities in line with our vision to propagate the Dhamma through spiritual friendship and practice-focused interest groups.  We organise a weekly service every Sunday morning in Wat Ananda where we invite different speakers to share the Dhamma and also for members to forge friendship during the service.  We also invited various Venerables to conduct meditation retreats and workshops.  While cultivating our own practice though attending talks and retreats, we also remember a key aspect of the Buddha's teachings of radiating loving kindness and compassion to the less fortunate.  As part of our community outreach programme, we organise quarterly community service to distribute rations and basic necessities to elderly from the low-income families.   Besides reaching out to the elderly, we also continue to show our support towards the young.  We took a more active role in supporting the activities of a group of young Buddhists called the Young Buddhist Chapter (YBC) who recently came under the guardianship of WAY. 

For 3 consecutive years (since 2007) we have been distributing rations to the needy families around Wat Ananda vicinity in Jalan Bukit Merah.  We are glad to be able to contribute our part to the community and help those in need.  We would usually donate diapers, milk feed and food rations to these families on a quarterly basis.  We would like to thank our volunteers for their help in this programme.  Let's deliver all the WAY, with metta (loving-kindness) & karuna (compassion)!!