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Strengthening Social Resilience and Uplifting Lives
Foster a more resilient, harmonious and inclusive society, by supporting individuals, strengthening families and uplifting communities
Strengthening Families and Communities
Empowering People with Skills
Fostering International Exchange and Enhancing Regional Capabilities
Connect people, promote stewardship, and advance capability and capacity in Asia
Inspiring Change and Connecting People
Enhancing Capability and Capacity Regionally
Advancing Science and Protecting the Planet for a Sustainable World
Enhancing Liveability
Promoting Sustainability
Supporting Research and Development
Strengthening Social Resilience and Uplifting Lives
Strengthening Families and Communities
Bavani Govindarasu, an Anchor senior community health visitor, visits homes of vulnerable children to support them and their caregivers
Anchor
Challenging or traumatic events experienced in early childhood could adversely affect cognitive development, behaviour, emotions, and consequently health in adulthood. Temasek Foundation partnered KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital to support children facing such challenges through Anchor, a tailored care programme. The programme includes home visitations and regular assessments of the children’s developmental, emotional and physical health, as well as the needs of caregivers and families. To date, over 100 families have been supported through the programme.
Strengthening Social Resilience and Uplifting Lives
Strengthening Families and Communities
#PauseBeforeYouPost, a social media campaign, was launched to educate youths on how they can support their peers with suicidal tendencies online
#chatsafe for Safe Online Conversations
Suicide prevention agency, Samaritans of Singapore (SOS), with support from Temasek Foundation, introduced a set of guidelines and training curriculum for workshops to educate youths about having constructive and safe conversations online about suicide. The #chatsafe guidelines provide youths with knowledge on consuming suicide-related online content safely and equip them with skills to support their peers who have made suicidal comments online. About 300 youths are expected to be trained on the guidelines through workshops. A social media campaign #PauseBeforeYouPost was also launched to raise awareness on the #chatsafe guidelines and included tips on how youths can support their peers with suicidal tendencies.
Strengthening Social Resilience and Uplifting Lives
Empowering People with Skills
Low Poh Yoke, who has a profound hearing loss, picked up cooking skills from a course funded by Temasek Trust
Temasek Trust – Community Development Council (CDC) Lifelong Learning Enabling Fund
The pandemic has led to many people having to adapt to changes and even more so for those with disabilities. The Temasek Trust – CDC Lifelong Learning Enabling Fund, administered by SG Enable, launched a S$4 million community fund last year to support up to 4,000 adults with disabilities through subsidies for training programmes and learning support services. These programmes and services will equip beneficiaries with vocational and independent living skills so that they can emerge stronger from the pandemic.
Fostering International Exchange and Enhancing Regional Capabilities
Inspiring Change and Connecting People
Global philanthropists and stakeholders from diverse sectors sharing solutions to meet societal challenges
Philanthropy Asia Summit 2021
The inaugural Philanthropy Asia Summit 2021 was a collaborative platform that convened, connected and galvanised global and regional philanthropists through a series of calls-to-action that focused on climate action, inclusive education, and pandemic security. Sustainable philanthropic approaches in blended finance, outcomes metrics, and the innovative use of technology were also showcased. It was attended by about 200 participants comprising principals and heads of global and regional philanthropies, family offices, next generation philanthropists. It featured more than 30 speakers including Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder, Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies; Wang Shi, Founder, China Vanke and Chairman, Vanke Foundation; and keynote speaker, Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for Social Policies Tharman Shanmugaratnam.
Fostering International Exchange and Enhancing Regional Capabilities
Inspiring Change and Connecting People
Students visited the Marina Reservoir in Singapore where they witnessed how people can impact waterways
STEP Sociovation Forum 2021
STEP Sociovation Forum is an annual programme which focuses on using empathy to promote social innovation. Last year’s programme saw more than 60 students from over 30 institutions from ASEAN and China learning visual storytelling techniques and crafting compelling narratives to promote environmental sustainability. As part of the two-week hybrid programme organised by Singapore University of Social Sciences, the students also visited places such as the Marina Reservoir in Singapore. The students worked in teams to produce social documentary films on topics such as zero waste, conservation and plastic consumption, which were shared on YouTube.
Fostering International Exchange and Enhancing Regional Capabilities
Enhancing Capability and Capacity Regionally
Thai educators gaining knowledge and skills in digitalisation to impart to their students
Technical and Vocational Education Training in Digitalisation
Temasek Foundation supports a training programme in Thailand that aims to equip post-secondary school educators with knowledge and skills in digitalisation. The educators are trained to develop plans that incorporate digitalisation into Technical and Vocational Education and Training curriculum. Some 100 educators are expected to complete the training programme by 2023. To multiply the learning experience, educators who have completed the training programme will conduct workshops for 300 more educators.
Advancing Science and Protecting the Planet for a Sustainable World
Enhancing Liveability
A patient using the telerehabilitation device developed by Articares, one of the winners of Healthcare InnoMatch 2021
Developing Innovative Healthcare Solutions
Healthcare InnoMatch is an annual open call, launched by Temasek Foundation and the Centre for Healthcare Innovation in partnership with Singapore’s three healthcare clusters, for innovative ideas that enhance patient care and deliver positive health outcomes. Three start-ups that develop healthcare solutions — Articares, a Singapore-based medical software and hardware development company; RootAlly AI, a Singapore-based healthcare technology company; and Epilog-NV, a biomedical company from Belgium — beat more than 140 teams from around the world with their proposals. The three start-ups tap on new and emerging innovations such as robotics, Artificial Intelligence and remote monitoring using a cloud-based platform. The winning teams were matched to local healthcare institutions which will test bed and review the solutions. If test bedding is successful, the solutions may be rolled out across the three healthcare clusters.
Advancing Science and Protecting the Planet for a Sustainable World
Promoting Sustainability
Youth sustainability champion Yeo Pei Shan shared through her social media campaign how avocado seeds could be used as a natural scrub
Engaging Youth Sustainability Leaders to Amplify Voices for Change
TF partnered the World Wide Fund for Nature (Singapore), to launch #WeGotThis, a programme to motivate young people to launch social media campaigns on sustainability-related issues. Over 400 youths from around the world attended online masterclasses, featuring global sustainability changemakers. About 90 young people were further selected to take part in a five-day virtual boot camp that provided them with foundational knowledge in areas such as material science, solar energy, conscious living, digital advocacy, sustainable cities, fashion, and food. They then went through a six-month mentorship incubator programme to prepare them to launch their own social media campaigns.
Advancing Science and Protecting the Planet for a Sustainable World
Supporting Research and Development
Gaurav N. Sant (left) and Dante Simonetti, researchers from SeaChange, a start-up which is developing the world’s first carbon extracting desalination plant in Singapore
Developing Innovations to Reduce Global Warming
SeaChange, a US-based start-up founded by researchers from University of California, Los Angeles, and winner of TF’s The Liveability Challenge 2021, is developing an electrochemical process to remove carbon dioxide from seawater and store it at scale. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere which leads to global warming. SeaChange’s innovative process helps to reduce global warming by draining carbon dioxide from seawater so that it can absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. It uses an electrolytic flow reactor, that can be powered completely by renewable energy, to extract carbon dioxide from seawater. The company is now collaborating with PUB, Singapore’s national water agency, to develop the world’s first carbon extracting desalination plant.
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