18.35 newsletter issue 003

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Issue 003 / Young NUC NewsletterKeeping you up to date with our Youth Movement

Young NUC organised our first national awards or youth activists in the labour movement on Friday, 5 December 2014, to recognise youngworking adults who have contributed to society and the Labour Movement. Young NUC hopes this platorm will encourage active and passionateyouth leaders to continue their good work, inspire more youths to Do More and Do Good, and develop more youth leaders to take the lead inmaking a change to impact society. Te awards presentation ceremony was graced by NUC Secretary General Lim Swee Say and Special Guest,Senior Minister o State, Ministry o Finance and Ministry o ransport, Mrs Josephine eo. About 200 invited guests comprising awardees andtheir amilies were present to recognise the activists or their contribution to the Labour Movement. Youth Impact Awards comprises three awardcategories; Youth Action Award, Espirit de Corps Award and Certificate o Appreciation.

18.35 is Young NTUCspublication that keepsyou up to date withour Youth Movement!Young NTUC is theyouth wing of theLabour Movement inSingapore, representingyoung working adultsaged 35 years andbelow.

Since our founding in2005, we ave grown toover 185,000 members,making us the largestyouth movement inSingapore. As a nationalyouth movement,we strive for fair andjust oppurtunity andsustainable progress forall young workers inSingapore.

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Te Youth Impact Awards pinnacle Youth Action category recognises outstandingindividuals who are strong advocates or meaningul causes and who have inspiredothers to Do More or the community. Tis award was presented to Sister Lastrina,who is the team manager o eam Young NUC 350 Singapore.

Lastrina was selected or actively taking the lead to coordinate efforts or 350

Singapore to raise awareness o environmental issues amongst youths andSingaporeans. As a result o her efforts to bring together more youths with ideas onhow to change the world or the better, Lastrina has reached out to 214 youths andengaged a core team o 15 volunteers who advocate or environment sustainability.

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Te Esprit de Corps category award or outstanding groups, was presented to twoYouth Chapters and three eam Young NUC affinity groups who have constantlyengaged their members through the organising o meaningul programmes; namely:- Young BAU (Building and Construct ion And imber Employees Union)

- Young CIEU (Chemical Industries Employees Union)- eam Young NUC 350 Singapore- eam Young NUC Earth Runners- eam Young NUC p.L.a.Y (Perorming with Love by Active Youth)

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CERTIFICATEOFAPPRECIATIONCertificates o Appreciation were also presented to Young NUC Committeemembers and youth leaders in eam Young NUC affinity groups.

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NURTURE

Abumpy erry ride in the middle o rough seas did not deter 38 youthul participants, includingyouth representatives rom the unions and eam Young NUC activists, rom coming together or theannual Young NUC Workplan Seminar in Pulau ioman, Malaysia in November.

Discussions or the seminar centered around three important areas:Work as Inspiration; Family as Foundation; and Environment as Beneaction.

< Work as Inspiration >

Workers must be inspired at work. With a clear purpose and motivation,productivity o workers increase hence translating to a productive economywith low employment. Tis will be the best protection or all our young

workers. In line with that, Young NUC is looking to organise activities which include IndustrialNetworking Sessions and Young NUC CROSSROADS sesions. Tere are also plans or career relatedevents revolving around new job opportunities, dialogues and plenary sessions. Activists are alsoencouraged to spearhead projects to excite and inspire ellow young workers about their jobs.

< Family as Foundation >

Young NUC recognises that amily must continue to serve as theoundation stone in society to balance the economic and social demandsor the sustainable development o Singapore. Tis is particularly important

as our members are in that age group where such issues matter. In order to achieve this, YoungNUC together with our activists aims to take action to bring about positive changes. Starting with apolicy caucus o 30 youths, the intent is to translate thoughts into practical action or the good o thecommunity..

< Environment as Benefaction >As responsible youths, we must do our part to keep Singapore in the same

or better environmental conditions or our uture generation. Young NUCtogether with our environmental activists intends to bring together Non-

Governmental Organisations in Singapore in a Environmental Congress to support our aim. Tiscongress plans to be the key platorm to lobby or and promote changes in the way Singaporeans livetheir lives and to play a part in helping to raise awareness o the global warming crisis.

With Young NUCs 10th anniversary coming up in April 2015, the national youth movement togetherwith our young leaders will continue to commit our ocus on the outreach, engage and nurture effortsin these three areas.

RARING TO GO

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Close to 7,000 members came together today or Singapores 49th birthday at Young NUC Celebrates!National Day event held at Te Promontory @ Marina Bay. Workers rom three sectors cleaners,landscape technicians, security officers, as well as their amilies, were invited to grace the event, whichsaw over 200 Guests-o-Honour as a result.

Organised by Young NUC and presented by NUC Income, the annual event honours the spirit oSingapores workorce and celebrates unity and solidarity o the Labour Movement with the nation. Atthis years event, Young NUC called on our members to be more proactive in showing their appreciationtowards the unsung heroes who have played a major role and contributed greatly towards the nation,working tirelessly around the clock to make Singapore clean, green and sae.

Tese initiatives were introduced as part o our aim to complement the Labour Movements AppreciatingU movement to have more people involved in recognising the contributions o our working people tothe economy and society.

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To urther affirm and demonstrate this outward display oappreciation, participants were encouraged to pick-up-afer-yoursel so that cleaners would have a less arduous task afer thecelebrations. Tey also shared words o appreciation and gratitudeor all the workers who kept Singapore clean, sae and green on anAppreciating U board. Our members were reminded to continue

this positive movement in their everyday lives, including picking uplitter, doing their part to avoid damaging the floral landscapes aroundthem and thanking the security officers or keeping the premises sae.

Besides the Appreciating U initiatives, participants also ormed agiant human flag to showcase the solidarity o the Labour Movementbehind Singapore. Tis was reinorced by the signature candle-lightingactivity called A Celebration in Unity which demonstrates mutualsupport o the Labour Movement and its role in nation building.

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Inspiring youths is theoundation o YoungNUC. Our YoungNUC CROSSROADSseries eatures

personalities who haveovercome the oddsto achieve success intheir own right. YoungSingaporeans canlearn rom their lieexperiences and howdecisions made at key

junctures o their liveshave brought them to

where they are today.

Besides, networkingsessions are conductedas a continuationto these sessions,enabling participantsto work towards theirgoals. Past speakersand participants can

also co-create YoungNUC CROSSROADSsessions, bringing itacross as a ground-upeffort to a larger groupo audience.

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With a brain or business, aheart o compassion and a nose

or coffee, Pamela Chng gaveup a successul boutique webfirm o eight years to pursue herpassion, with the intention ogiving back to society at the sametime. Sparked by her love or agood cuppa, Pamela set up BettrBarista a social enterprise tohelp transorm underprivilegedwomen and youth-at-risk intoskilled baristas so they can secure

better work opportunities. Beyondthe skills, the one-o-a-kindacademy also trains its studentsup physically, emotionally andsocially to boost their confidenceand sel-esteem, with the ultimateaim o helping them becomeeconomically independent andlead more meaningul lives.

Not knowing i the idea would work, Pamela said her new venture was like a big experiment. She started the business when the economy was at its

worst, but was determined to embark on this journey as she knew she wanted to use coffee to change lives. Te academy today helps marginalisedwomen, especially, as Pamela believes women have the potential to go out to society to change lives and help many other people down the chain.

Pamela admitted that she has been privileged and very, very lucky throughout her journey, to which she is extremely grateul, and said it wasimportant or someone in her shoes to ask what she was going to do with those privileges and gifs given to her. She added that, in the largerscheme o things, Singaporeans have a very good lie, and urged participants at the session to take a step back and ask themselves what they coulddo with their lives, to do more or others.

Brewing the Better Cup of CoffeePamela Chng, Founder of Bettr Barista Coffee Academy


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How real should I be? ong Yee, Director o Te Tought Collective discusses aboutvalues, ideals, and our orgotten responsibilities. He began his session at Young NUCCROSSROADS with a lowdown on his lie experiences, sharing key episodes that shaped

him to become the person he is today.

Te Tought Collective is a group o five social enterprises that aims to make Singaporea better place, and the brainchild o someone who once struggled in school, both sociallyand academically. oday, ong Yee is a social entrepreneur determined to nurture our nextgeneration o thought leaders and youth change-makers through developing the skills,empathy and leadership necessary or Singapores uture.

At the session, ong Yee took each question rom participants with a pensive pause, with hisgenuine responses coming rom his hard lessons learnt and occasional modest successes.He shared honestly, and many times vulnerably, about his journey through hard decisions

that have led to a lie well transormed. While he was brought up knowing values, he said henever truly embodied them and thus, got through the first part o his lie being an efficientliar. He underwent the worst o experiences rom meaningless relationships, a teenagepregnancy, and even a criminal record, to sitting on the edge o a building at the brink osuicide. He woke up every day at one point with a constant death wish.

Attributing his redemption to several guardian angels who crossed his path, ong Yee turned his lie around ollowing his mothers pleas to do something about his lie, whichshe saw was an empty shell. ong Yee eventually ound his place in teaching when he was given the chance to study at the National Institute o Education (NIE). Having greateraspirations or society, he set up School o Tought first as a repeat student programme, as he empathised with young people who ell through the cracks because he himselwas a repeat student both at the O and A Levels. Te school now conducts civic education programmes under the guise o English tuition to impart values to students and givemeaning to learning.

Responding to questions about what motivates him, ong Yee shared that he strongly believes he, like many o us, was given the right and privilege to live his lie the way he ought,so the onus ell on him to ulfill his responsibilities in return. ong Yee shared that most o us know our rights, but not necessarily our responsibilities, and those who complainin lie are ofen conscious o the ormer but not the latter. He also shared that many o us have orgotten, as we grow and achieve things in our lives, that there are in act multiplehands that eed us.

Tere is a certain gratitude I have with lie. A genuine gratitude I live a day at a time, but I live each day well. As a word o advice to those who are at a crossroad in their lives,ong Yee said the important thing to do is to question who we are as a person, and ask what our responsibilities are. He believes that it is not the job that makes the person, but theexperience and interpretation o those experiences that do.

Of Rights and Responsibilitiesong Yee, Director of Te Tought Collective


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Through our Young NUC dialoguesessions or Our Singapore Conversationsin 2013, young adults have expressedconcerns about socio-economic policies.Many have cited comparisons withcountries such as Finland, Denmarkand Switzerland and how Singapore canemulate some o those practices. YoungNUCs Family as Foundation Roundtablesaw many passionate activists comingtogether to discuss related issues and amilywas identified as the key motivator andoundation o lie to achieve economic andsocial objectives in Singapore.

Young NUC Activist Daniel Yap said:We cant choose our amily so it is reallysomething that we live with as a core parto our lives.

Young NUC is a great platorm to seechange happen. On my own I am just onevoice and one thought, but by working withbrothers and sisters in Young NUC I canfill in the gaps in my thinking and reach outto more people to share in a vision

A policy caucus o 30 youths was ormedthrough this Roundtable and many steppedup, proposing easible actions that can bringabout positive changes to Singapores socialabric. Moving orward, these individualswill be leading various projects with thesupport o Young NUC.

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Through the YouthChapters o ouraffiliated unions,young union leadersare better able to

engage ellow youthsat their workplace.With the support othe Young NUC SeedFunding Scheme, ouryoung union leadersare provided withresources to acilitateoutreach programmes.Tis allows youths in

unionised companiesto learn more abouttheir rights and to gethelp when needed.

Organised by five different unions YoungBuilding Construction and imber IndustriesEmployees Union (yBAU), Young ChemicalIndustries Employees Union (yCIEU), YoungUnited Workers o Electronics and ElectricalIndustries (yUWEEI), Young United Workerso Petroleum Industry (yUWPI) and YoungSingapore Refining Company Employees Union(ySRCEU) members, representing the IndustrialSector to engage youth members and saw themcomplete the Sisters Island Survivor Challenge!Participants bonded over a series o witty gamesrom gathering sticks and starting a fire, meals andsimply time spent together! Initially planned or asimple bonding session involving the committee

blossomed into one involving some 50 participantsand strong bonds orged thereafer.

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Amongst numerous appreciationlunches, the Appreciation Lunchor Landscape echniciansorganised by the Young BAU wasnone like the others. Te lunchsaw members picking up skills

such as ertiliser mixing rom thetechnicians first hand as techniciansshare the passion behind theirwork. Over a two hour session ledby several proessional landscapetechnicians, members learnt toclear garden debris, loosen the soil and plant shrubs. Young BAU youth representative, BroNarindas shared, Tese workers work hard to keep our city green and leay. So we have toappreciate what they do and learn to treasure our surroundings.

ending to the Heart

In line with NUCs Appreciating UMovement, Young AUPE (yAUPE)representatives spent a day out innature with Singapores horticulture

specialists. Venturing into thegardening hub - Hort Garden,members o yAUPE experienceda typical work day o a Landscapeechnician. By giving youths theopportunity to experience thedaily work done by the Landscapeechnicians, it is yAUPE Youth

Representative and Vice-Chairperson o Young NUC Committee or Public Sector - SisSurianahs hope that they can learn to be better customers and be more able to express theirappreciation especially or the Pioneer Generation in our midst. Simple words like Tank you

and gestures like a hand shake goes a really long way in appreciating those around us, quippedSis Surianah.

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Team Young NUCbrings together youthso similar interestsand causes. Youthscome together as

affinity groups to leadinitiatives which theyare passionate about.From environmentalissues, volunteeringto perorming arts,we help our membersmake a difference tothemselves and thesociety.

Team Young NUC Earth Runners was started byYoung NUCs activist, Bro Lincoln and his team ocore pacers rom RUN 350.

Te group aims to spread the message o a sustainable,green and clean environment through running. Earth

Runnerss first running clinic kicked off in November,bringing together novice and seasoned runners or asession to help them gear up or their upcoming races.Participants hear rom speakers on tips to help clockthe time that they aim to achieve, and was led on a5km run around the Central Business District. Greeninitiatives such as Bring Your Own Bottle (BYOB) wasincorporated to the running clinic to educate morerunners to do their part to lower their carbon ootprintor a greener uture.

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Team Young NUC Volunteersorganised a carnival or some70 elderly at NUC EldercaresSilverACE @ Redhill on 20th

September.

With the carnival running, theentire centre was instantly filledwith energy and laughter withpeople moving rom one gamestation to another. Te 12 gamestations that the volunteers hadcome up with are suitable orall the elderly to take part, be iti they are mobile or wheelchair

bound - From Gol Range to Guess theNumber, rom Egg Relay to Match theCards. Te seniors readily took up thechallenges or good un and simple prizes.It was a great opportunity or the seniorsto catch up with each other and also theregular volunteers rom Young NUC.

Te centres atmosphere almost eels like an Olympic Games o sorts. Te seniors wereseen concentrating hard on their next move, wanting to beat the games air and squareand set their personal best record. Each o the seniors displayed their sportsmanship,

even berating the volunteers i they gave them leeway to win the station.Liew Sher ian, 27 years old, looked back afer the activity and said, When my riend(Jasmine Ang) told me about this carnival or the elderly, I jumped in to help with a JustDo It spirit! As I was manning the Gol Range game station, I have to position the golballs or the elderly and just that squatting movements gave me sore muscles the next day.But it was all worth it. Ill be back or the next activity by Volunteers i my schedule allowscause it eels great to be contributing back!

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