As a child, have you ever wondered what would it be like spending 4-5 days with your buddies in nature at a summer camp? Have you thought about learning pertinent life skills through interactive fun-filled games outdoors? Life skills which can’t be gleaned from textbooks like courage and a can-do attitude and the ability to see the big picture of life?
For International Friendship Day 2019, we celebrate special friends whose friendships help us appreciate our differences across race, age, religion, nationality and disability.
Ivan shares the story of his friendship with Rahman, a 22-year-old Bangladeshi migrant worker in Singapore who survived an accidental explosion that burned 73% of his body.
There are no refugees in Singapore. But that didn’t stop Jonathan from starting his non-profit Relief Singapore and helping refugees and displaced people in Asia.
Dina, an ex-journalist who is now a freelance writer and a passionate advocate for refugees, talks about the importance of capacity-building in empowering refugees in Malaysia and giving them hope not just for their future, but their present too.
Sahaana Sankar, the Chief Operating Officer at Hand in Hand India, shares how behaviour resetting is the focus of their community engagement and how this strategy is working to combat environmental degradation.
Gitanjali Babbar, founder of Kat-Katha who works to provide freedom and lives of dignity to sex workers in Delhi, remembers how it all started from a visit she made to the brothels of red light district G.B. Road in 2012.
C.W., a volunteer at text-based mental health support service, shares her experience in the hopes of encouraging more people in Singapore to volunteer to help youths make mental health a priority.
Environment advocate Foo Tun Shien recounts his epic adventure to Antarctica and shares how the youth is making sense of the looming environmental issues of their generation.