Nanyang Technological University

Wesley has been an active volunteer since the age of 13. He has performed regular service on a weekly basis at multiple charitable organisations, such as Bishan Home for the Intellectually Disabled, MINDS, and the IJ Home and Children’s Centre (IJHCC).

One of the largest events he coordinated was BatchGive, a level-wide community service project in RJC which saw 1,200 students delivering aid to 300 elderly residents in one-room flats. More recently, during his days in NTU, he has embarked on 2 more projects to deliver aid to the needy, one of which saw 300 foreign workers receive more than $6,000 worth of basic necessities. Through a handful of fund-raising events, he has also helped to raise more than $20,000 for 3 different organisations.

Overseas, Wesley has left his mark in 4 Overseas Community Service Projects (OCSP), 2 of which were during his days in NTU – Camp Outreach Penang in 2010 and Project CORE (Cambodian Outreach Expedition) in 2011. He is currently planning for another OCSP to Sabah in June 2012, and is acting as a senior advisor to the team planning Project CORE 2, which is scheduled for Dec 2012.

Wesley’s earlier contributions to the community have led him to obtain recognition in the BP International Mentoring & Tutoring Certificate of Commendation (2003 and 2004), the RI Outstanding Interactor Award (2004), and the National Youth Achievement Award – Gold (2006).

Having graduated one semester early, Wesley has selflessly chosen to dedicate his time to volunteer full-time at Singapore Cancer Society for three months, where he is currently serving. Apart from doing his part in the fight against cancer, he also wishes to learn more about how a charity organisation operates in order to increase the reach and impact of the future causes that he will serve in.

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Ruiyun has always been passionate about volunteering and actively involved in various volunteer efforts.

As the Vice President of the Anglo-Chinese Junior College's Interact Club, she organized various community projects aimed at showing love and concern to the elderly, such as the Chinese New Year visit to the Society of Aged Sick and house-cleaning visits. She was also a regular volunteer at the Lakeside Family Centre, where she gave weekly tuition to children of inmates and organized holiday camps to broaden their exposure and interests.

In NTU, Ruiyun was an active and committed member of the Welfare Services Club, Regular Service Project for the Hearing Impaired. As the Centre Head of Toa Payoh Centre, she ensured that the tuition programme for deaf students ran smoothly. Her other contributions included the organization of SPARKZ, an annual event aimed at bonding RSPHI volunteers with deaf students, and participation in various Song Signing performances for the public. As the Liaison Officer of the performance, she dedicated herself to raising awareness of the deaf community and promoting arts and culture in Singapore. She also helped to empower participants of Inner Voices, an annual event that gives the hearing Impaired an opportunity to be volunteers for a cause.

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Priya has been an active volunteer since Junior College where she tutored students who came from less privileged families. She was also active in fund raising for various causes in Interact club. Besides, she was actively involved in her class-initiated community project where she taught children in primary school.

In NTU, her drive for volunteering did not diminish. As a Youth Executive Committee member in her community club, she has organised many activities such as children’s Christmas parties where she was the emcee. In addition, she was part of the organizing committee for 2 Project Makeover events, a community service effort to help needy residents in the vicinity to have a better living environment through the cleaning and refurbishment of their homes. She was also involved in the recruitment drive for the volunteers. Project Care, another community service project where the committee holds events for the elderly in Evergreen home is something which Priya has been active in. She also helps facilitate the blood donation drive held in Yew Tee every 3 months. Recently, she was elected by her committee as the vice-chairman of the club due to her leadership abilities and commitment in volunteer work. Priya was also a volunteer at the Singapore Indian Development Association (SINDA) mentoring troubled students as identified by their schools.

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Jun Wei possesses the passion of giving back to the society by inculcating the young and instilling them with values such as integrity, discipline and sense of justice. He strives to create a positive cycle of Sharing and Giving via influencing his peers to do the same, to reach out to all who need help and to flatten the learning curve of the younger generation.

He has been actively involved in NPCC since 1999. During his term in NTU, he served in Teck Whye Secondary School grooming as many young students as he could, and was involved in organising Community Safety and Security Programme exhibitions in NTU to educate the public about the importance of Crime Awareness.

Besides, Jun Wei also served as a Volunteer Adult Leader with the Singapore Scouts Association at Henry Park primary School, extending his services to another group of youngsters in the community.

He further extends his volunteerism spirit beyond Singapore by undergoing an unpaid internship at Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, a bank that specializes in Micro Credit Financing.

He is also involved in the Bukit Panjang Youth Executive Committee holding an executive committee position of Auditor and helping to plan grassroots activities to engage youths. Currently, he is also working on a project to link up the NPCC units from various secondary schools with the Community Centre to spread the message of crime prevention to the neighbourhood.

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Jayden joined NTU Welfare Services Club in 2009 with the intent of helping the less fortunate and has been an active member ever since.

He joined a special project "Challenge Ur Limits (Curl)" to create opportunities for beneficiaries and student volunteers to interact in exciting activities that will challenge both their mental and physical limits. In collaboration with Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee (SYOGOC) as an events manager, he planned "Colouring Lives, Painting Futures", where participants designed traditional clogs and also put up a drumming performance with the clogs they made. In 2010, he took up the role as a Chairperson and led "Nurturing Plants, Fostering Lives" The event involved creating miniature greenhouses called terrariums using biodegradable materials to promote environmental conservation.

Throughout the three years Jayden also joined Regular Service Project for the Intellectually Disabled (RSPID) and volunteered in other projects such as "Kids World", "Eye Am Aware" and "Ignite Change".

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Feeling the need to help the less fortunate, Hui Leng joined the NTU Welfare Services Club (WSC) in her first year, to fulfil her desire to serve the community. However, she felt that it was also imperative to spread the spirit of volunteerism, and get more NTU students to participate in voluntary work.

Through WSC Volunteer Management (VM), Hui Leng had the chance to plan various events that will recruit the help of other NTU students who are not regular volunteers. Through the planning and execution of KidsĄŻ World, one of the annual events under VM, Hui Leng hopes to lead her team in bringing joy and laughter to approximately 120 disadvantaged children through games and excursion. 120 NTU volunteers are also recruited to interact with these children. By providing a readily available platform for volunteering, she hopes that more students will discover the ease and joy of volunteering.

In addition, as the Chairperson of VM, she initiated another volunteer recruitment programme, Golden Generation 2012, to encourage NTU students to work with the elderly. Hui Leng has also worked with numerous external welfare organizations, and raised awareness by creating a platform for interaction with the student population. These organizations include the Psoriasis Association of Singapore and the Thye Hua Kuan Moral Society.

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