2nd Raffles Community Leaders Forum
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2nd Raffles Community Leaders Forum
What is RCLF?
It is a platform for youth to gather and collectively engage specific community issues through facilitated discussions, community interaction and talks. Throughout the forum, youth participants will share their experiences and knowledge with others in the forum to deepen understanding and exchange ideas on the issue. The final product at the end of the forum would be an action plan detailing the contributions that the Forum participants can make towards ameliorating the problem and addressing the needs of the target community.
In essence, RCLF seeks to encourage youth community activism, harnessing the spirit, creativity and dynamism of youth to play their part in our community.
1st RCLF
The Inaugural Raffles Community Leaders Forum was held from 7th to 11th March 2008 at Raffles Junior College (RJC). It was hugely successful and brought together 256 like-minded youth from 11 countries to discuss community issues. It is currently a finalist for the Singapore Education Award 2009 – Best Educational Event by a Public Institution.
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) this year include:
REACHING OUT TO ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN
MEETING THE NEEDS OF THE ELDERLY
YOUTH-AT-RISK
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
VICTIMS OF ABUSE: OUTRAGE OF MODESTY
UNDERSTANDING THE INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED
URBAN POVERTY
ANIMAL WELFARE
UNDERSTANDING THE PHYSICALLY DISABLED
VICTIMS OF ABUSE: DATING AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Who can apply?
All youths from ages 17 to 25 with a genuine desire to make a difference are welcome to join us in our forum.
Registration by 15th May 2009
3rd May Hong Lim Speakers’ Corner Publicity Event
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As part of our publicity, to raise public awareness for RCLF and community issues we will be exploring during the forum, we will be holding an event at Speakers' Corner, Hong Lim Park on 3rd May, 5-7pm. The leaders of the different topics will be giving brief overviews of their issues and pinpointing the specific problems which they have identified, allowing positive engagement of youths to speak up and seek solutions to community problems.
Do join us there!
When: 3rd May (Sunday), 5-7 p.m.
How to get there:
- Upper Pickering Street - bus no 186 & 970
- New Bridge Rd- bus no 2, 12, 33, 54, 147, 190, CT 28
- Eu Tong Sen Street - bus no 2, 12, 33, 51, 61, 63, 80, 174, 174e, 197, 961, 961C, CT 28
- Clarke Quay Exit A
More details on: http://www.rafflesclf.org/