Service Learning - Balram

Leader: Balram

Members: Terrence, Jee Hoon, Gregory and Kai Chek

Investigation Phase:

Identify The Community:

• Students
• Working adults (aged 21 to 70)
• The elderly (aged 70 and above)

Sector Of The Community: Students

We will be focussing on the Clementi Community Center, located at Clementi Avenue 4.

Generate Community Challenges:

Resources Of The Community: 

• Large student population
• Many schools, and therefore, many opportunities

Community Challenges:

• Lack of non-academic/skills-based knowledge 
• Lack of courses teaching students new skills

Evaluate Community Challenges:

• Urgency
• Importance
• Student Interest
• Efficacy
• Feasibility
• Cost
• Etc.

Identify Community Partners:

• The Ministry of Education
• Community Centers

 Community Requirements

• Courses teaching students practical skills at convenient locations and times

 Service Opportunities

• Organizing courses for students at Community Centers, in the afternoon

Establishing Baselines:

Baseline information is needed to track the degree of impact of the service at the end of the project.

There is a lack of practical and non-academic  knowledge among students in the afore-mentioned community.

After implementing the service project, we intend to expose these students to new non-academic skills.


Preparation Phase:


Goals and Objectives:


'goals' are broader, more general
'objectives' are more specific
'service' is what beneficiaries receive
'learning' is what service providers receive

Draft Community Action Plans
WHY: your service & learning goals & outcomes
HOW: how services will be provided/done
WHO: team members and community partners
WHEN: Specific timeline to work on
WHAT: resources needed
WHAT: indicators of success (i.e. service & learning outcomes).

Service Learning Group - Dhruti

Leader: Dhruti

Group Members: Dhruti, Jemaimah, Sharifa, Sarah and Fathiah

Investigation phase

Identify the community

Community mapping 

Locate the major facilites, amenities, buildings, housing, parks etc

SIM University, Clementi Mall, Children Aid's Society

Profile of the community

- Children (4-12)
- Middle-aged people (30-40)
- Teenagers (13-19)
- Middle income families (mainly)
- Most of the middle aged people are working

Sector of the Community

Children between the age of 4 and 12

Community challenges

Service opportunities

Organize activities for the children living in the community


Strength and resources in the community
Space in the community


Concerns/needs of the community
Entertainment for the children there
Children are being neglected

Criteria
Cost effective
Students are interested in the project

Identify community partners

Children’s Aid Society, School of Science and Technology, Singapore (SST)

Establish baselines

A lot of the children in the home are left behind by their relatives.

After implementing the service project, we intend to make these kids feel happy about life regardless of their family issues.

Preparation

Identify service and learning goals and objectives

• goals: to make them happy
• objectives: to entertain them by organising activities that they might enjoy just for them
• service: It will reduce the amount of money used for the children’s entertainment making more money to spend to improve and maintain the place.
• learning: the importance of “paying forward”

Draft community action plans

Why?

So that kids feel happy about life regardless of their family issues. It wouldn’t affect them as much and they will soon accept it and will be able to live with it.

How? 

We will go to the orphanage and carry out the games we organised for them.

Who? 

Team members(Dhruti, Fathiah, Jemaimah, Sharifa, Sarah) and community partners(Children Aid’s Society)

When? 

Term 3

What resources needed?

Things used in the games organised (string, water guns etc.)

What learning outcomes?

We will learn how convenient our lives are compared to the children in the orphanage.

Service Learning Group - Lee Yong Lin

Member's
1. Allen
2. Lee Yong lin
3. Howe wee
4. Dylan
5.Ho zong han
6. Ethan Lee

Investigation phase
1.Identify the community
-Community mapping
Area around Singapore - (Between Clementi and Dover)

-Profile of the Community

teenagers - ( 13-19)
Children- (1 to 12)

Old people (65 and above)

Middle-aged Adults ( 40-50 ) 

Working adults (29- 65)
Middle income family (bulk of the families)
Low-income families 

-sector of community

 families with low-income

2.Generate & Evaluate Community Challenges
Generate community challenges


Strength and resources in the community
-Children may be smart


Concerns about the community/needs of the community
- Community has low income
- Lack of food
- No money to pay bills = No water/ electricity
- No funds to pay education fees (if children are present)
-Proper living for low income family
-Gambling problems for low income families

-Evaluate community challenges
Criteria 
-Urgency
-Importance
-Feasibility
-Efficacy
-Cost
-How much worse will the problem get
After going through all the criteria, Lack of food is the most important and we could use a food donation drive

3.Identify Community Partners
Potential community partners that would be engaged 
-SST Corporate Communications
-Food from the heart

How can/ will they help
SST Corporate Communications can give approval for this service learning project to be carried out
Food from the heart can aid in distributing food collected from food donation drives to provide food for the low-income families
4.Establish baselines
Track the degree of impact of the service at the end of the project
Currently, a number of families in the area has difficulty providing food for themselves
After implementing the service project, we expect that lesser or no families will have difficulty on getting food.

Preparation Phase
1. Identify Service and learning goals and objectives
Goals and objectives, Service and Learning
Goals 
To provide food for at least 20 households

Objectives
-To provide food for the needy
- To make sure that the needy do not starve for a long period of time


Service
-Collect food from the richer communities to provide to the poorer communities to help the poor in the form of a food drive


Learning
-To learn of ways about to help others and to help more needy people.
- To learn what is going on in the neighbor hood and be more aware of the social needs.
2. Draft Community Action Plans
WHY : your service and learning goals and outcomes

HOW : how services will be provided/done
We will give out fliers to houses nearby to inform the residents that a food donation drive will be conducted soon, giving them time to prepare. A week later, we will return to collect any food donated by residents and after collecting, we will hand the food over to "Food from the Heart" to distribute to the multiple households.

WHO : team members and community partners
-Allen Kim
-Ethan Lee
-Dylan Goh
-Ho Zong Han
-Lee Yong Lin
-Howe Wee Teh
-SST Corporate Communications
-Food from the heart

WHEN : specific timeline to work on
3rd Week of Term 3 to 5th Week of Term 3

WHAT : resources needed
-Fliers to give out to the residents to inform residents about the food donation drive
-A mode of transportation to move the donated food from one place to another
-Manpower

WHAT : Indicators of success
-Low income families having enough food to eat

Service Learning Group

Leader: Loynes Poh
Members: Zhuo Deming , Marcus Loh, Julian Tan, Joshua Leong, Mohd Adam

The 'Investigation' Phase

            at a glance...

1.Identify the community
-Community mapping

Clementi and Dover MRT station, Clementi polyclinic, Singapore Poly

Profile of the Community:
Mostly families with young children, small amount of elderly

Sector of the Community:
Family with financial problems

2.Generate & Evaluate Community Challenges
Generate community challenges:
-Increasing in cost of living
-Unemployment

Identify the service opportunities:
-Distribute food

- Strengths and resources in the community
Large area for events

- Concerns about the community/ needs of the community.

Low income families and Elderly

- Evaluate Community Challenges

Income not enough to meet daily needs

- Evaluation Criteria
Importance,urgency
Food is important for survival
Efficiency(ability)
Increasing in food prices causing low-income families and elderly to be unable to buy food.


- Group Consensus
Importance,urgency and food is important for survival

3.Identify Community Partners

-Potential Community Partners that would be engaged:
Food from the Heart
SST management

-How can/will they help:
Help in the collection and distribution of the food items
SST will help to engage students to help out in this project

4.Establish Baselines
-List down the baseline info
Many families are under this food donation programme.

-Track the degree of impact of the service at the end of the project
The family having enough food to survive for the time

The Preparation Phrase

1. Identify Service and Learning goals and objectives
List down the intended goals& objectives for service &learning
"goals" are broader and more general
To ease the families in their food expenses
"objectives" are more specific
To reach out as many families as possible
"service" is what beneficiaries receives
Help them to service more family
"learning" is what service providers receive
Learn the community and learn how to serve the others

2.draft community action plans
- as a group, draft an action plan on keynote which should include
why : your service and learning goals and outcomes
To help the community and learn more form them
how: how services will be provided/done
Distribution of fliers, collection of food and distribution of food
who: team members and community partners

Team Members: Loynes Poh, Zhuo Deming , Marcus Loh, Julian Tan, Joshua Leong, Mohd Adam

Oragnisation: Food from the heart

when: Specific timeline to work on
Distribution of fliers: 7  July 2012
Collection of food: 21-22 July 2012
Distribution of food: 4 August 2012
what: Resources needed
50 Members , 3 Lorries
what: Indicators of success (i.e service & learning outcomes)
Students will get to experience service learning and the families will help to reduce their burden