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
Same Hour, Different Hats: Volunteerism is Bridging the Age Gap Read More »
“Leaders of tomorrow” is a nice thing to say about young people. It’s also a way of putting off the moment you actually let them lead. The data says that moment already happened. Singapore’s youth aren’t catching up to adult volunteers — they’re ahead of them. Globally, 2.1 billion people — one in three working-age
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Venice Siat was 14 when a 9th grade social studies class changed the direction of her life. She calls it “an incredibly simple encounter” — a lesson in class but a harsh reality for far too many “You see the struggles in healthcare, flood control… and insufficient services for the lower class; at the same
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