PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS
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AIESEC is a youth organization that works towards youth engagement in reducing and amending global conflicts. They also give a platform for young adults to develop their leadership skills and take an initiative in improving and working on the UN Sustainability Global goals. An ample of opportunities along with professional experience can be obtained by working with them. They have connections all around the world and work globally with other organizations, focusing on underprivileged countries battling many different problems
HOME: Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics is a Singapore based charity formed in 2004. This organization works for empowerment of migrant workers who suffer abuse and find themselves victims of human rights violations. Their goal is “enhancing the well being and future economic prospects of migrant workers”. They conduct a lot of outreach projects for public education about issues affecting migrant workers. The three pillars that guide them is Welfare, Empowerment and Advocacy.
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FOOD BANK SINGAPORE: The Food Bank was originally started in January 2012 to combat the amount of food wastage and allocation of food in Singapore. Today, they have contact with approximately 200 beneficiary organizations. Their interviews with them revealed that 70,000 food rations and 800,000 meals are required monthly. Through these rations, The Food Bank Singapore strives to bridge the gap in the market by collecting surplus food in the market and providing it to organizations and people in need of food.
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WORLD VISION: The World Vision was started in the 1950’s as a religious charity organization to combat poverty and child endangerment. Through their charity, the World Vision assists in transformational development, emergency relief, promotion of justice, partnership with churches, and public awareness.
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Yayasan Usaha Mulia (YUM) - Foundation for Noble Work is a non profit organization that works to improve the quality of life of the poor in Indonesia. Indonesia has seen widespread development, but with the fourth largest population in the world, there are still many areas where there is a severe lack of proper health, education and community services. Millions of families continue to live below the poverty line, surviving on less than two dollars a day. YUM has worked for more than four decades in this vast archipelago to support communities, to give them hope and a way out of the cycle of poverty.
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PARTICIPATING GUESTS
Vanessa
Reksodipoetro
An NGO worker with a background in human resources management and public relations, I am trained to work with all types of people as well as able to engage them in my field of work. My multi-cultural background and being trilingual has proved to enhance my communication skills and my ease to fit in various communities. I am enthusiastic, hard-working and very much enjoy working in the social field and finding ways to improve people’s lives.
d'Arcy Lunn
Founder of Teaspoons of Change: d’Arcy is the youngest of 6 children from rural South Australia but for the last 18 years he has travelled to more than 90 countries as a global citizen educator, keynote speaker, communications specialist and youth leadership facilitator with the likes of UNICEF, Gates Foundation, WHO, World’s Largest Lesson, JUMP Foundation, Global Citizen and many others. D’Arcy has given almost 850 presentations to more than 75,000 people in the past 8 years and built two self-sufficient tiny houses.
Joshua Scott
Mr. Joshua Scott is a DP biology teacher at CIS who recently organized and attended the grade 10 excursion going to Laos. A lot of meaningful experiences were gained by the students as well as the teachers. They became more familiar with different lifestyles and a varying standard of living which made them value their own opportunities more.
Ms. Stacey Jones
Ms Stacey jones is a Compass Educator who believes that systems thinking is critical for social change to take place. She has been leading service learning at SAIS for the last 2 years and recently completed papers in critical global citizenship and service learning towards her MA in International education. Ms Jones is also a PE teacher who is passionate about sports. She has facilitated sports community projects in St Lucia and Africa where sport was used as a leverage for social change.
Isaac Da Cruz
A young and energetic French International Business graduate who studied in the U.K, Isaac is involved with the corporate marketing for the Safe Water Garden and social media campaigns at LooLa as part of his internship.
Tess Wong
A passionate outdoor educator, Tess joined Marc in 2010 and has been with LooLa ever since. She coordinates the programs for schools and corporate groups as well as work closely together with our LooLa staff on operations and finances
