During the second semester of our first year in Ngee Ann Polytechnic, we were tasked with an Integrated Project called New Perceptions. Each project group was to pair up with an organisation and to relate what we learnt from our various modules to a real life community that the organisation aids. We thus paired up with HELP Family Service Centre [FSC] and set out to accomplish the huge project. Through pairing with HELP Family Service Centre, I have definitely gained much more insight into the community that the organisation helps, which are single-parent families, and how the organisation tries to help that community than could be gained from a classroom setting. Before this partnership however, I did not understand the concerns and needs of single-parent families. Thus this partnership has definitely been a fruitful learning experience as it widened my perspective of the community.
We also had the opportunity to aid HELP FSC in analysing their survey about the perception of single-parent families in Singapore of which more than 900 participants from all walks of life took part in. The results of the survey were then presented at the HELP FSC annual symposium which we were also invited to be a part of. For the NCSS 50th carnival, HELP FSC has also given us the opportunity to be part of the launch of their book.
With so much more that can be learnt, I really look forward to many more collaborations with HELP FSC
