meekia

Helping others is good thing mah~

One small step, from notion, to reality.

Conceptualized a community project that'll help disadvantaged children quite a while ago....
and after a million procrastinations and a billion bigoted selfish acts of self-indulgence.....finally got down to typing out that draft proposal and sending it out to the relevant people.

it is basically a project that will help children who can't even afford assessment books, gain access to 2 things:
1. Internet & Computer skills
2. Online academic exercises that can stimulate their independant/interactive learning spirit.

Hopefully, enough people sitting by the Greenlight switch-board will see its worth and workability.

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Working Title:

Project PC (Pupils Connect) :
Helping disadvantaged children log on to the Internet Era.

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Who:
- Pupilspace.com
- Youth.sg
- Youth volunteers
- Disadvantaged children


What:
An e-learning community (with interactive learning features and English, Maths and Science quizzes) wishes to offer its resources free of charge to disadvantaged children en masse.

When:
1st quarter 2006 (Recruitment of volunteers / Publicity)
1st half 2006 (Implementation / Publicity / Ongoing Review & Refinements)


Where:
Through computer centers in Community Clubs / Locations with computer classrooms (e.g. primary school PC labs)

How:
Pupilspace.com provides subscription packages (activation passwords and user-ids) and collaborates with the Youth.sg web-portal in these main areas:

1) Promotion of this project to the relevant children's welfare organizations and publics
2) Recruitment of youth volunteers who can teach the children how to use
Pupilspace.com's e-learning resources (how to log in to do the quizzes etc.)
3) Sourcing of locations (community clubs, PC labs in primary schools etc)
where the youth volunteers can hold their teaching sessions
4) Structuring of the volunteer sessions (Duration, Logistics, Content etc.)

Why:
There are many children who come from families that cannot afford assessment books, much less a PC or an Internet connection.

Pupilspace.com hopes to reach out to them, offer them its e-learning resources for free, and help them gain the necessary web usage/navigations skills that are essential in this Internet era.

At its core, Pupilspace is about helping young pupils become savvy about the learning dynamics within an online community, whilst improving their academic performance. Currently, the website caters mainly to Primary 4, 5 and 6 pupils who can afford to have access to PCs at home.

Through this charitable, collaborative, volunteerism-driven exercise with Youth.sg, Pupilspace.com hopes to achieve 2 objectives:
1) create a positive convergence of virtual/local/learning/youth communities
2) highlight the importance of inspired community action and spirit amongst
youths in the Internet era
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you know lah,
people say young people, sit in front of computer all day, all they do is watch porn, download illegal movie and music files, chat n bitch n gossip n blog about frivolous things (like whether her nose real or not).

people say sg young people, disconnected/disaffected/disillusioned/disco//dislocated
/distinction-conscious/dependantconsumeristic-blindlytrendifashionslavilistic/
/disinfectant-sterile-stale-stoopid-strawberry-cupcakes.
don't know lah, maybe 50% true lah. Like yin-yang lah, half half lah. (when u spin the black n white, it all becomes grey lah.)

But whatever people say abt us, sg youths, really is still got some of us who don't got money, but still also want to help other people lah i feel.
maybe these people so free will come n help me with Project PC.

The question to ask is why.

why har why? why bother with all these community projects/community action leh?

Well, your mother told u the answer when u were in kindergardening already ok~?

"Helping others is good thing mah~"




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posted by audaciousjoy @ 5:10 PM