Football for cause

Do you love football? Would you like to compete and be the best?

The Uni-Y@NTU Football For Cause 2010 is a social enterprise project that integrates elements of charity and service learning in a sporting event to raise funds for our local community service programmes which serves to meet the social and physical needs of our elderly folk.

It is a one day tournament on the 29th of May, so grab your friends, form a team and register NOW!

16 teams will go head to head in a round robin tournament at the NTU softball pitch with the winners grabbing attractive prizes!

Just $70.00 to register a team of 10 players! You can register online at http://footballforcause.readingkids.org/

For more information please contact us at uniy@ntu.edu.sg

Befrienders for Y Proms @ The Park 2010‏

Volunteers needed as befrienders for Y Proms at the Park on 27^th March 2010, Saturday!

This is the (tentative) schedule for the day:

3.00p.m. – 3.30p.m.	Uni-Y students reach VWO Ice-breaking games Main aim: To get to know beneficiaries better
3.30p.m. – 4.00p.m.	Travel to West Coast Park Reach by 4p.m.
4.00p.m. – 5.00p.m.	Get seated on mats Entertainment / Fringe activities (e.g balloon scultptors, face painters, mascots walk about) Distribution of goodie bags & picnic box
5.00p.m. – 6.30p.m.	Start of Picnic Performances by various Arts group
6.30p.m. – 7.00p.m.	Corporations send beneficiaries back to VWO
* Timing subject to changes depending on circumstances

We need 8 groups of 15 – 20 pax!

The group representative can contact Li Wen @ 65862352 / liwen@ymca.org.sg directly.

The details of the briefing are as follows:

Date: 19 March2010, Friday  – Each group sends only 4 volunteer leaders to attend briefing
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Venue: YMCA Building, level 4

Light refreshments will be provided

UNI-Y CAMBODIA YEP MAY 2010

UNI-Y CAMBODIA YEP MAY 2010

1)      Uni-Y YEP Cambodia May 2010 offers you the opportunity to spend time ( yes, I mean a lot of time!) with children and youths (5 to 21 years of age) from an orphanage!

2)      This service learning trip entails the erection of a fence around the orphanage, conducting English lessons for them, and other ad-hoc projects!

3)      Trips to the Angkor Wat, Killing Fields and Tuol Sleng (the genocide) museum will be facilitated to understand the circumstances and culture of the local people. (trust me this is NOT the highlight of the trip)

4)      This project is the continuation of previous projects and there will be other teams to follow. So you can bet that what you do there is really substantial in helping the orphanage!

Duration: 2 weeks (tentatively 8th to 22th of May, +3 days)

Cost: <$650 after YEP subsidy

For more information, please contact Joseph at +90663731 and email to uniycambodia@gmail.com or joseph.yap.zy@gmail.com to indicate your interest! Please include your name, faculty and contact number.

For eg, “Hi!! I am xxxxxxx from faculty of xxxxxx and i’m interested to go to Cambodia!”

Hope to hear from you soon!

Fast Facts of Cambodia

1) The crown-jewel of the Khmer Empire was the city of Angkor, centered around the temple of Angkor Wat. Construction began in the 890s, and Angkor served as the seat of power for more than 500 years. At its height Angkor covered more area than modern-day New York City.

2) In 1975 the Khmer Rouge won the civil war, and set to work creating an agrarian communist utopia by exterminating political opponents, monks and priests, and educated people in general. Just four years of Khmer Rouge rule left 1 to 2 million Cambodians dead- about 1/5 of the population.

3) Cambodia has arguably the most interesting history in South East Asia, but it still remains in the third world.

Tri-Uni Y-Camp Challenge

Hello everyone! Y Camp Challenge is here again!

TRI-UniY Camp Challenge

WHEN AND WHERE IS IT?

It will be held from 5 to 7 March 2010, VWOs will be APSN Delta Senior School (Also the campsite) and APSN Tanglin School.

It starts on 5 march evening at about 5pm and will end around sunday afternoon at around 1.30pm.

WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Y Camp Challenge is an initiative by YMCA, a quarterly outdoor adventure camp organised for the mentally, intellectually and physically challenged from our partnering VWOs. It is a uniquely designed camp organised and driven by volunteers from NUS, NTU and SMU (First time collaboration!) and supported by volunteers and supported by staff to provide fun and social integration opportunities whilst challenging the preconceived limits of beneficiaries and volunteers alike.

This fun filled, 1 beneficiary ・1 volunteer camp aims to raise the self esteem and confidence of our 70 participating beneficiaries while providing varied platforms for the personal and social development of an equal number of volunteers.

PURPOSE OF YCAMP

- To develop the body (referring to physical health & fitness), mind (referring to knowledge) & spirit (referring to attitudes & character) & of every camper.

- To promote social integration between people with disabilities and the community at large

- To generate awareness and provide public education on the characteristics and needs of people with disabilities

- To provide a platform for Youth Volunteers to utilize their skills, talents and time by contributing to the needs of the disabled, guiding them through the service learning process

WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN?

- 40 CIP hours

- Be part of the first Tri Uni Y camp!

- To embark on a learning journey for yourself, to challenge your perceptions of the intellectually/physically disabled

- Self-satisfaction when you know you just had an impact (be it big or small) in someone’s life.

Things to take note of:

- we will be having water activities in the medium pool of Mt Faber SAFRA hence some swimming will be involved, be sure to enjoy the fun! (no    swimwear needed so no worries =))

- there will be a camp fee of $20 dollars which include all means and entrance to Mt Faber SAFRA. this amount will be paid to us before the camp.

- This will be the first tri-uni Y Camp Challenge that is organised, so, be there to make more friends across the universities and be there to embark on this journey together with all fellow uni-mates ^^

TO SIGN UP,simply CLICK HERE!

For further clarifications, feel free to contact Julia at julialim_1990@hotmail.com

Go Green for the Community

REGISTRATION HAS CLOSED.

Thank you for your support in Go Green for the Community.

Suichuan ISP 6 Dec 09 – 22 Dec 09

KOREAN SKI

YMCA SINGAPORE has organized Daemyung Vivaldi Park – Ski camp/Homestay

Dateline to sign up: 31st October 2009

CLOSED