BA Yellow Ribbon Ceremony

The School of Business and Accountancy (BA) will be organizing a BA Yellow Ribbon Ceremony (BAYRC) on the 20th August 2005,(9:30am-12pm) in support of the national Yellow Ribbon Campaign first launched in 2004. This campaign serves to raise the awareness of the Singapore community regarding the needs of ex-offenders in their difficult journey towards leading normal lives.

The central message of the BAYRC is in "giving a second chance" - especially in a society that is continually striving for excellence, and how this can inspire transformation in lives of individuals who have made mistakes in the past.

The BAYRC will be a platform for students and community recipients of 3 service-learning projects to share their learning experiences and objectives achieved. The 3 projects are selected because of their partnership with community recipients who appreciate the support of the Yellow Ribbon Project.

The WIL (Work-Integrated-Learning) Module
Currently in its 5th run, this module engages final year students of the Business Information Technology (BIT) diploma. The students impart basic IT skills to reformative trainees (RTs) from the Prison Aftercare Supervision Section (PASS) and in the process to help them re-integrate back to society through being their role-models. In this semester, the 10 students were also tasked to set up an IT Room at PASS with the funds awarded from the Samsung DigitALL Hope grant. The BA Yellow Ribbon ceremony will be also the NgeeAnn-Samsung IT Centre ribbon-cutting as well as a graduation ceremony for the RT boys.

The SERVE PHILIPPINES 2005 Youth Expedition Project
In May 2005, a tripartite team comprising of 19 students from BA, 6 girls from the Andrew and Grace Home (AG Home) and 4 differently-abled youths from Teach-Me Inc embarked on a project also to set up an IT centre and train the trainers from 2 partner organizations - the Association of Disabled Persons, Iloilo (ADP-I) and the Special School for Exceptional Children (SPED School, Iloilo) in the Philippines. This inaugural tripartite expedition had been an expedition of unique challenges and learning experiences in more ways than one. The team will be sharing a little about their joys and pains during the BAYRC.

The EXTEND-Turning Point Project
EXTEND (Experiential Training for Entrepreneurship Development), as its name implies, is an experiential project where students from the Diploma of Business Studies (BS) taking the Entrepreneurship Option work with partners like businesses, schools and voluntary welfare organizations on business plans and proposals. The EXTEND-Turning Point project involves 5 students working with Tuning Point on a proposal to help Turning Point research on the possibility of applying for a food license to operate a cookie production, as well as identify and negotiate for marketing and distribution channels for these cookies.

Would you like to give a Second Chance?
So dear Serve Philippines team, would you like to contribute to this worthy cause? Please contact Lek to be The Light of Someone's Life =)

Aug 13 (Sat) Ngee Ann Poly LT26 8am-2pm - Full-dressed rehearsal including ServePH and other participants
Aug 20 (Sat) Ngee Ann Poly LT26 8am-2pm - THE ACTUAL DAY!