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Sinda Volunteers
Tea 2001 |
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Key Facts About Volunteerism
Sinda: |
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Every day 2 people
join SINDA as volunteers |
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Every week 400 volunteers
visit the homes of children to read to them |
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800 volunteers recruited
in year 2000 |
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20% of our volunteers
are students |
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10% of our volunteers
are non-Indians |
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Youngest volunteer
is 8 and oldest volunteer is 84 |
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24 Reading Centres
have been set up islandwide in partnership with grassroots organisations |
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Our volunteers help
us run a range of programmes like Project Read, Project Teach,
Library Helpdesks, Reading Centres |
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COMMUNITY
SUPPORT: |
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Volunteers helping
SINDA continue to grow. Every day 2 volunteers join SINDA. Between
1999 to 2000 the number of volunteers increased from 1,300 to
2,100. Our volunteers come from all age groups — from the
community and beyond. Our youngest volunteer is 8 while our
oldest volunteer is 84. 10% of our volunteers are non-Indians
and 20% are students. |
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VOLUNTEER
RECRUITMENT: |
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Various innovative
methods are used to recruit volunteers like recruitment messages
through message pagers with the support of SingTel, M1 and SunPage,
SINDA News and SINDA's radio programme on Oli 96.8FM, Thil
Thil Manathil. |
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KUDOS
FOR VOLUNTEERS: |
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SINDA volunteers also
received national recognition for their efforts. Our student
volunteer Mumtazah Mustaffa won the Student Community Service
Award 2000 awarded by the Rotary Club of Singapore. This year
11 SINDA volunteers are receiving the Long Service Awards from
Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. They are: Mr S Lakshmanan, Ms
K Naban, Ms Malini Menon, Mr Surjan Singh, Ms D S Palakrishnan,
Maj T S Kumar, Cpt Kanesananthan, Mr S Kannoosamy, Mr Pon Raman,
Mr Thorasamy Rajagopal and Ms Ratna Kotteri. |
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KEY PROGRAMMES
RUN BY VOLUNTEERS |
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Some of the key volunteer
driven programmes include: |
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Project Read: |
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Project Read helps
children (5-8 years) from low income families with reading difficulties.
In year 2000, the programme was expanded to reach out to children
who are 4 years old. Project Read is an outreach programme through
which we gain access to the home of the child and identify other
areas in which the child/family needs help in. Every week 400
volunteers go to the homes of these children to read to them. |
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Project Teach:
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Project Teach is a
home tutoring programme. Volunteers provide one-on-one tuition.
It helps children (Primary1-Primary3) from low income families
whose foundations in English and Math are so weak that they
need individual attention. These students will not be able to
benefit from group tuition like STEP. Project Teach volunteers
coach children for two hours a week. 110 students are currently
in this programme. All of them have made good progress in their
studies and the programme has received positive feedback from
schools and teachers. |
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Project Reach: |
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We reached out to
150 families in the Radin Mas constituency through Project Reach.
Trained volunteers from the constituency visited these families
living in 1/2/3-room flats, to identify their needs and to ensure
that relevant services are offered to them. |
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Kaki Klub (Mentoring
Programme) |
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Kaki Klub is
a mentoring programme for Secondary 1, 2 and 3 students in the
Normal Academic and Normal Technical streams. A trained volunteer
is matched to a student for 6 months. The mentor and mentee
spend 1-2 hours a week together. This programme aims to guide
our youth. The mentor and mentee engage in various enrichment
activities. 210 students from 11 schools are in this programme. |
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Motivational
Sessions: |
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To inspire our lower
Secondary Express students to greater heights we conduct special
programmes like inspirational talks by young local celebrities.
250 students from 16 schools participated in these programmes.
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Block Reading: |
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Under this initiative
children living in the same or nearby HDB blocks are grouped
together. One volunteer reads to a group of 3-5 children. |
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Reading Centres: |
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24 Reading Centres
were set up islandwide in partnership with grassroots organisations
at various Community Centres, Kindergartens, Indian Organisations
and STEP Centres. These neighbourhood centres helped 800 children. |
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Library Helpdesks: |
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Library Helpdesks
help familiarise Indian children and their parents with library
services. We work together with the National Library Board on
this project. 8 Helpdesks are set up at Community and Children's
Libraries, to encourage children (5-9 years) to read more books.
More than 160 children benefited from this programme. |
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