Community is for our uncles too. Check out Active Ageing Centers across Singapore and you’ll see the aunties crafting, chatting and pottering away. But the elderly uncles are most often left out, sitting somewhere near the edges. It’s a pattern easy to miss unless you’re looking for it. A group of Community Development students noticed,
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By: Noelle Hui “We didn’t have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.” — Mary Brave Bird- a quote familiar across so many cultures and histories. This quote isn’t unique to us, in our own culture, we hear older generations asking if bayanihan (the Filipino term for community aid) is indeed dead. Taking
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One thing we love about TheOneHourProject is the diversity of our volunteers. We have young people creating graphics for groundups and social impact organisations right along side seasoned marketing directors that are giving their decades of expertise to a struggling foundation. Different life stages, different reasons for being there, same hour given. We’re a witness to
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