Source: The RICE Company Ltd

Starting from Wednesday (15 April), more than 500 children and youths will receive arts training online via a new initiative #Engage by not-for-profit arts and culture organisation The RICE Company Limited (TRCL).
The initiative aims towards engaging Singapore’s vulnerable children and youths online with tons of educational activities on arts, culture, and lifestyle during this period of the COVID-19 “Circuit Breaker”.
“Since the outbreak of COVID-19 and especially during this period of the “Circuit Breaker”, we have been reading how through various online platforms the arts have become a central part of our life in lifting our spirits and in keeping ourselves occupied. We have also read how many people have found time to pick up an instrument or learn to dance or draw through online lessons,” said Ms Aminah Hussien, Head of Arts & Community of TRCL.
“In this, as an arts organisation that seeks to build a sustainable arts ecosystem to benefit under-served children and youths in our community, we feel it is important to have an initiative that engages our children and youths through creative and meaningful ways at home and to do our part,” she added.
The 500 children and youths are beneficiaries of The Business Times Budding Artists Fund (BT BAF), which is managed by TRCL.
The Fund provides free arts training through two arts enrichment centres – The Little Arts Academy and 10 Square Youth – to talented or artistically inclined children and youths from economically and socially disadvantaged families.
A total of 12 online arts training programmes – from visual arts, drama, and dance to tech+art – will be rolled out.
These online programmes will also be made available to the public on the YouTube channel of The Little Arts Academy and 10 Square Youth from 15 April onwards.
“These lessons allow our beneficiaries to continue their curriculum training uninterrupted since they cannot be at the training centres physically. Of equal significance is that we will also be making these lessons available to anyone from the public who wish to follow the classes,” commented Ms Aminah.
“By bringing these arts training lessons online, we can at once continue supporting our students from vulnerable backgrounds as well as also reach out to those who may be in need of such engagement activities during this stay home period. #Engage also allows the livelihoods of our trainers, many who have been with us for more than 10 years, to carry on without disruption during this period,” she added.

Subscribe
Notify of
0 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
You May Also Like

司机和乘客及时逃出 轿车疑碰撞后起火燃烧

27日晚上,一辆轿车在淡滨尼东一交界处起火燃烧,庆幸的是,轿车司机和乘客都及时逃出车外,无任何伤亡事件。 脸书群组SG Road Vigilante – SGRV昨晚(9月27日)在淡滨尼2道和淡滨尼23街的交界处,靠近淡滨尼东民众俱乐部,一辆轿车在发生车祸后,开始起火燃烧。 视频中,只见有其他车主将车子停在起获地区附近,以进行拍摄。而民防部队抵达现场进行灭火工作时,现场浓烟滚滚,而且似乎并不能完成灭火。 民防部队指出,当局于当晚约8时50分接获有关意外的投报,并出动了一支水枪进行灭火工作,目前尚在调查起火原因。

公园电灯柱电线外露 热心公民找到掉落盖子盖上

民主党秘书长徐顺全,在本月1日发现武吉巴督230座组屋附近游乐场,有公共电灯柱的电线外露,也找不到盖子盖上,若有附近小孩玩耍时不慎触碰,仍十分危险。 他指出直到昨天(3日)中午,情况以然如此。所幸一名网民Bs Koh 留言表示,在附近地上找到了这灯柱电路的盖子,权且先把它盖上,只不过没有螺丝钉能锁上。 徐顺全感谢这位热心公民,不过也提醒民众为安全起见,应避免接触这些外露的电线。再者我们也不知道这些线路是否有电流流通。 无论如何,民众感谢这位公民,同时也提醒负责武吉巴督单选区的市镇会,应注意公园设备的维修。 徐顺全在上届选举,在武吉巴督单选区上阵,对垒人民行动党穆仁理。后者仅以54.8巴仙得票率,守住该选区。 武吉巴督是由裕廊-金文泰市镇会管辖。

Oxfam rebuffs Minister Desmond Lee’s claim that Singapore tax policies are not harmful

Though Singapore is defending its low taxes and refutes Oxfam’s ranking of…

本地第七起新冠确诊病患已康复出院

卫生部表示,一名感染新型冠状性病毒的患者,已经康复出院。 据卫生部周二(4日)表示,该名病患为35岁中国武汉男子,是本地第七起确诊病例,经过全面检测后,均呈现阴性,达到了出院标准。 对此,卫生部召开记者会表明,“我们今日(4日)有一名病患出院,经治疗后已无出现相关症状,他同时也连续接受了三天的检查,其检测结果均呈阴性,因此,确认他不会再有感染的风险。” 据了解,该名病患于1月23日抵达我国,隔日出现新型冠状性病毒相关症状,被送往莱佛士医院接受治疗,随后被转介至国家传染病中心(NCID),于1月27日确诊。 卫生部也指出,医生也将会持续密切留意病患的情况,同时也补充道,另一名病人也出现好转现象,正准备在未来几天内出院。 该部表示,目前仍无法全面确定,因为医生仍需每日检查病人的状况,但也有部分病人的状况已逐渐出现好转,至少三名患者已无出现相关症状;另五名患者则必须仰赖呼吸器协助呼吸,卫生部表示,这是因为他们有出现肺炎症状。 公立医院内所有肺炎患者均需接受新型冠状性病毒检测 与此同时,卫生部也表示,自上周以来,公立医院内所有肺炎患者均需接受新型冠状性病毒检测,而且在同日,亦检查出六起确诊病例。 其中包括其中有四名病患近期内都没有到过中国,包括一名印度尼西亚籍女佣. 针对我国是否有能力检测大量肺炎患者,卫生部医药服务副总监麦锡威教授指出,肺炎已成为新加坡第二大死因,占我国死亡人数的五分之一以上,每周大约会有500至600名肺炎患者需要接受病毒检测,因此不必担心检测的能力。 此外,根据《海峡时报》报道,除了公立医院,私家私人医院也将会对肺炎病患进行病毒检测。