Learn how the team from Project Vikasa set out to empower the women of Jaipur, India, and ended up gaining as much as they gave.
Day in and day out, the support staff on our campus work hard to make SMU a clean, comfortable and safe space for us to work and play. This semester, six of the clubs under the Special Interest and Community Service Sodality got together to help the SMU community show our appreciation to our janitors, technicians and security guards. Read all about it here.
An overseas community service project combines two of the hallmarks of the SMU undergraduate experience: social responsibility and global exposure. With so many recruitment drives and info sessions taking place, how does one decide which OCSP to take up? In this post, a Project Pendeza veteran shares some helpful tips.
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As a freshman, Manorama viewed SMU's compulsory community service hours with some cynicism. Three years later, she now has an entirely different outlook towards serving the global community, which has taken her to the Philippines and to India. Find out more about Manorama's acts of community service, and how you can support her work with those living in the slums of Nagwa, Varanasi in India.
What's it like to volunteer at a hospice, a place where people spend their final days? While it is commonly assumed that hospices are depressing, our student Margaretha shares that her volunteering journey at Assisi Hospice has had plenty of joys alongside the inevitable sorrows. Read more about why she finds it meaningful to spend time with hospice patients, and to share their final journey.
Project Reef Alert is a unique overseas community service project that combines the members' love of diving with a passion for marine conservation. Read on to find out more about this project: the members' contribution towards conserving Monad Shoal, and the invaluable insights which they gained about the community in which their project operated.
Through his audacious success in trekking Mount Everest without any money, Siddiq was inspired to work towards effecting positivity among underprivileged youths in Singapore.
Unlike the archetype of the socially-apathetic millennial, SMU students give back to society by completing a host of community service projects. Read more about why our university's culture of social responsibility has often compelled them to voluntarily put in more than double the compulsory hours.
Project Sukacita is an overseas community service project helmed by those who have received scholarships from the Tanoto Foundation. Pioneered in 2012, this project is an opportunity for Tanoto scholars to give back to society, in concert with the values of their scholarship body.
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Following the story of Suhaimi, an SMU graduate who was fuelled by his passion for serving the less fortunate, and in the wake of Vivace 2014, we feature a CCA that allows personal development while serving others.
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