“Food is just a method to survive … day by day. … If you are talking to me about nutrition … I don’t think we people [in this neighbourhood] get …
Ground-Up Efforts at Community Development in Singapore
The Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) organised a workshop to showcase findings from two case studies conducted by IPS on organisations that adopt ground-up approaches to community building: Beyond Social …
Giving Choices Back
In ArtsWokCollaborative E-Newsletter Issue #2, Dec 19, 2018 Community development is “about giving the choices back to the community” says Izzaty Ishak, a theatre-maker and community worker with Beyond Social Services. …
Meet Diljan, home baker, cook, and mummy to her AMK neighbours
In TodayOnline newspaper November 21, 2018: “’The kids also come to us with problems… Parents come to me and say their kids are doing well, and share incidents,’ said the …
Competent Communities Toolkit
As we start our journey to build competent communities, we use this document to take stock of which stage our community is at and why it is that stage. From …
Competent Communities Overview
Authors: Gerard Ee, Kokila Annamalai, Samuel Tang Renewing our focus on bringing together people from different walks of life and empowering them requires us to reframe our role from professional …
Activating Local Community
Author(s): Samuel Tang, Gerard Ee for publication in “Mobilising Diverse Community Assets to meet Social Needs” IPS Exchange Series (2017) 12: 104-122 This article outlines the reasons and approach that …
Empowerment – building an inclusive and resilient community
Authors: Singapore Management University Public Policy Taskforce Through observing and actively participating in various activities conducted by Beyond Social Services (BSS), this taskforce aims to evaluate the approaches BSS takes …