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1. Poverty
Citizenship stage 2
By: LCP Joseph Wee, LCP Joe Wong,
LCP Leong Jun Hao, LCP Nicholas Chang,
LCP Shane Chan

2. Poverty
Citizenship stage 2
By: LCP Joseph Wee, LCP Joe Wong,
LCP Leong Jun Hao, LCP Nicholas Chang,
LCP Shane Chan

3. Social Entrepreneur 1:
Founders: Andrew Youn, John Gachunga
● One Acre Fund is a non-profit social enterprise that supplies
financing and training to help smallholders grow their way out of
hunger and build lasting pathways to prosperity in various parts
of Africa.
● They serve small-hold farmers, placing them first and ensuring
their prosperity, while envisioning a future in which every farm
family has the knowledge and means to achieve big harvests,
support healthy families, and cultivate rich soil.
● Services: Distribution of seeds, training agriculture techniques

4. Impact on target group
● One Acre Fund farmers made an additional $107 in
annual agricultural profit, compared to similarly
situated farmers in their same agro-ecological zones.
● They also made, on average, another $64 in profit from
our add-on products. 1 Put together, this represents an
additional $171 in profit, and a 65% increase from those
activities, relative to non-One Acre Fund farmers.

5. Relevance to Singapore
● Like how One Acre Fund helps smallholders,
there should be organisations that help the
people that are more outcast or have jobs that
are seen as lower to be able to climb out of their
poverty and be able to prosper and lead a happy
life
● Such jobs could be fishmongers, cleaners,
postmen etc.
● Therefore, Singapore has to step up and
encourage more organisations that do this sort
of charity to grow

6. Singapore social Entrepreneur 2:
Founders of Homage: Gillian Lee(CEO), Lily Pang(CEO), Tong Duong(CEO)
● Homage, an online platform that provides on-call services by
trained homecare experts to the elderly.
● Because of the growing population of the elderly, and the
declining birth rate in Singapore, CEO’s of homage felt the need
to match the needs of the elderly by providing them with a
growing number of healthcare professionals to support their
growing population.
● Services include: Showering, Tube feeding and Medicinal needs

7. The Growing Problem:
● With an increasing population of elderly, and a decreasing number of
young adults and working adults, there will be lesser singaporean
citizens of working age to an elderly.
● The graph below represents the working adults per elderly over the
years

8. Relevance to Singapore’s Economy
● With a smaller group of adult workers, there will be less
economic growth
● Not only that, but both local and foreign companies may also
move their operations overseas, especially if there is a
shortage of skills locally.
● Thus, with a low economy growth, it will result in a economic
loss.
● Therefore, Singapore has to do more today, to ensure a better
tomorrow , so as to sustain the vibrancy of singapore’s
economy.

9. Non-profit Social Entrepreneur in Singapore
● Etch Empathy, is a non-profit social enterprise in Singapore, which vision is
is “ A World Without Poverty” .
● It aims to reduce inequality by connecting those in need with those who
have. They do not simply do this alone. They mobilise people, the private and
public sector to alleviate poverty together and sustain the effort by
cultivating empathy.
Directors in Singapore: Aaron Yeoh & Lim Li Fen

10. Impact on Target Group
● Since 2015, Etch Empathy has partnered with Youth Corps Singapore to help
strengthen the quality of essential learning resources provided to vision
impaired students in Singapore through Project Shine-a-Light.
● After the project Shine-a-light, Etch Empathy carried out a project called
Fortitude Culina, which provides culinary lessons to the visually impaired.
● Since then, many visually impaired and handicapped students adapted life
long skills and impacted their lives in many good ways.

11. Relevance to the importance of
Singaporean’s support
Etch Empathy reaches out to impaired students from different backgrounds ,
carrying out activities and courses for them .All of these activities requires
money and since Etch Empathy is a non-profit entrepreneur, it relies heavily on
donations made by different people and different organisations.With the
increased help from Singaporeans, Etch Empathy would be able to reach out to
even more impaired students who are in need, impacting more lives.

12. Local social entrepreneur
One local entrepreneur is Mr Jamon Mok, who is the founder and chief executive
of Backstreet Academy. Backstreet Academy is a social enterprise that helps poor
communities in 10 countries and 40 cities by organising localised experiences,
tours and activities. These tours and activities help artisans and communities
which live below the poverty line of US$1.90 (S$2.70) a day. Backstreet Academy
gives priority to those artisans and craftsmen who are underprivileged and
struggling. Not only do they get a platform through Backstreet Academy to earn
additional income but getting to teach their skills to others also validates their
efforts and gives them a renewed sense of self-confidence.

13. Relevance to Singaporeans
● When travelling to countries like India, Singaporeans can use Backstreet
Academy to book their trip and activities. This would then help the
underprivileged and struggling artisans and craftsmen that are living below
the poverty line.

14. Thank you for
Listening to our
presentation!

15. Social Entrepreneur 1:
Founders: Andrew Youn, John Gachunga
● One Acre Fund is a non-profit social enterprise that supplies
financing and training to help smallholders grow their way out of
hunger and build lasting pathways to prosperity in various parts
of Africa.
● They serve small-hold farmers, placing them first and ensuring
their prosperity, while envisioning a future in which every farm
family has the knowledge and means to achieve big harvests,
support healthy families, and cultivate rich soil.
● Services: Distribution of seeds, training agriculture techniques

16. Impact on target group
● One Acre Fund farmers made an additional $107 in
annual agricultural profit, compared to similarly
situated farmers in their same agro-ecological zones.
● They also made, on average, another $64 in profit from
our add-on products. 1 Put together, this represents an
additional $171 in profit, and a 65% increase from those
activities, relative to non-One Acre Fund farmers.

17. Relevance to Singapore
● Like how One Acre Fund helps smallholders,
there should be organisations that help the
people that are more outcast or have jobs that
are seen as lower to be able to climb out of their
poverty and be able to prosper and lead a happy
life
● Such jobs could be fishmongers, cleaners,
postmen etc.
● Therefore, Singapore has to step up and
encourage more organisations that do this sort
of charity to grow

18. Singapore social Entrepreneur 2:
Founders of Homage: Gillian Lee(CEO), Lily Pang(CEO), Tong Duong(CEO)
● Homage, an online platform that provides on-call services by
trained homecare experts to the elderly.
● Because of the growing population of the elderly, and the
declining birth rate in Singapore, CEO’s of homage felt the need
to match the needs of the elderly by providing them with a
growing number of healthcare professionals to support their
growing population.
● Services include: Showering, Tube feeding and Medicinal needs

19. The Growing Problem:
● With an increasing population of elderly, and a decreasing number of
young adults and working adults, there will be lesser singaporean
citizens of working age to an elderly.
● The graph below represents the working adults per elderly over the
years

20. Relevance to Singapore’s Economy
● With a smaller group of adult workers, there will be less
economic growth
● Not only that, but both local and foreign companies may also
move their operations overseas, especially if there is a
shortage of skills locally.
● Thus, with a low economy growth, it will result in a economic
loss.
● Therefore, Singapore has to do more today, to ensure a better
tomorrow , so as to sustain the vibrancy of singapore’s
economy.

21. Non-profit Social Entrepreneur in Singapore
● Etch Empathy, is a non-profit social enterprise in Singapore, which vision is
is “ A World Without Poverty” .
● It aims to reduce inequality by connecting those in need with those who
have. They do not simply do this alone. They mobilise people, the private and
public sector to alleviate poverty together and sustain the effort by
cultivating empathy.
Directors in Singapore: Aaron Yeoh & Lim Li Fen

22. Impact on Target Group
● Since 2015, Etch Empathy has partnered with Youth Corps Singapore to help
strengthen the quality of essential learning resources provided to vision
impaired students in Singapore through Project Shine-a-Light.
● After the project Shine-a-light, Etch Empathy carried out a project called
Fortitude Culina, which provides culinary lessons to the visually impaired.
● Since then, many visually impaired and handicapped students adapted life
long skills and impacted their lives in many good ways.

23. Relevance to the importance of
Singaporean’s support
Etch Empathy reaches out to impaired students from different backgrounds ,
carrying out activities and courses for them .All of these activities requires
money and since Etch Empathy is a non-profit entrepreneur, it relies heavily on
donations made by different people and different organisations.With the
increased help from Singaporeans, Etch Empathy would be able to reach out to
even more impaired students who are in need, impacting more lives.

24. Local social entrepreneur
One local entrepreneur is Mr Jamon Mok, who is the founder and chief executive
of Backstreet Academy. Backstreet Academy is a social enterprise that helps poor
communities in 10 countries and 40 cities by organising localised experiences,
tours and activities. These tours and activities help artisans and communities
which live below the poverty line of US$1.90 (S$2.70) a day. Backstreet Academy
gives priority to those artisans and craftsmen who are underprivileged and
struggling. Not only do they get a platform through Backstreet Academy to earn
additional income but getting to teach their skills to others also validates their
efforts and gives them a renewed sense of self-confidence.

25. Relevance to Singaporeans
● When travelling to countries like India, Singaporeans can use Backstreet
Academy to book their trip and activities. This would then help the
underprivileged and struggling artisans and craftsmen that are living below
the poverty line.

26. Thank you for
Listening to our
presentation!