Océ Technologies Asia volunteered with #ONEsg on Friday to distribute food bundles and paint flats of beneficiaries at Peace-Connect Senior Activity Centre. Thank you for participating in our Concrete Actions Programme to Make Poverty History! 

Interested in getting involved in our Concrete Actions Programme? Write us at info@onesingapore.org today!

Click here to view photos of the event.

ONE (SINGAPORE) will hold its 2016 Annual General Meeting on Saturday 16 January.

We’re holding it at Mirror Image Academy, located near Chinatown Point at 531A Upper Cross Street, #03-112, from 11:00am to 1:00pm.

Following is the agenda for the meeting:

1. Election of ONE (SINGAPORE)’s 2016 Officers and Executive Committee
2. Presentation of ONE (SINGAPORE)’s financial accounts for the year ending 31 December 2015

This is also your chance to become involved and play a leadership role, either by standing as a candidate or participating in the process to choose the 2016 leadership.

If you have not RSVP-ed yet, please do so. It will help us to plan better. We hope you can make it, but if you can’t be there, you can also name a proxy to vote for you on all matters arising from the above agenda.

Just follow these simple steps to nominate a Proxy:

1. Download the Proxy nomination form.
2. Fill in all the fields, including your nominee. (If you do not know whom to name, you could select a member from our current Executive Committee).
3. E-mail the completed form to ONE (SINGAPORE)’s Secretary, Michele Yap and cc our Campaign Executive, Xiu Xuan.

If you are interested in joining the Executive Committee, please email us by Friday 8 January and take a look at the Terms of Reference for Exco members and officers. The Executive Committee (Exco) sets the direction for ONE (SINGAPORE) and our local participation in the movement to raise public awareness and take concrete steps to Make Poverty History.

We would also like to remind you to renew your annual membership by the AGM. You can do this in advance via PayPal or pay cash on the day of the meeting.

Here are the details of the AGM:

• Date: Saturday 16 January 2015
• Venue: Mirror Image Academy
• 531A Upper Cross Street
• #03-112
• Singapore 051531
• Time: 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Come 31st October 2015, ONE (SINGAPORE) will celebrate 10 years of our campaign to Make Poverty History! Wear your best 1960’s cheong sams, saris and sarong kebayas and join us at the historic Hotel Fort Canning for a night to remember!

Most ONE (SINGAPORE) supporters now know that every few seconds, a child dies completely unnecessarily from extreme poverty. But did you also realise that 1 in 10 Singaporeans lack basic needs such as food, clothing, shelter and other essential necessities?

ONE (SINGAPORE) is the only charity in Singapore that addresses both local and global issues affecting people and planet.

For the past ten years, ONE (SINGAPORE) has worked to raise awareness and take concrete actions to address local and global poverty issues. When we first began this campaign, the word ‘poverty’ – at least in the local context – was taboo. Since then, we’ve held public forums to discuss rising inequality, human trafficking, violence against women, discrimination & xenophobia, maternal health and international efforts to adopt a new set of global development and sustainability goals. And the ‘P’ word is no longer off limits.

As we write this, students at Republic Polytechnic and Singapore Polytechnic (some of whom attended our lectures in the Social Innovation Project) are preparing to lead The ONE Food Drive 2015. A year ago, The ONE Food Drive raised $14,000 worth of in-kind donations for Willing Hearts, a local soup kitchen that provides nearly 5,000 meals daily to marginalised Singaporeans. We’re placing this year’s campaign in context with a conversation on campus entitled ‘What does Poverty Mean in Singapore?’.

We’re conducting poverty seminars and volunteer outings with corporates, who have funded more than 25 scholarships for girls in Nepal, financial support and mentoring for low-income Singaporean students and food and in-kind assistance for nearly 350 local elderly and low-income families. (Want to participate? Ask us about the CAP, the Concrete Actions Programme!) Proceeds from partners at The ONE Ball 2013 helped provide a fresh coat of paint and colourful murals in the homes of xx of our neighbours-in-need. And we’re launching a Volunteer Befrienders programme to assist individuals in ways that the Family Service Centres can not.

The continued success of ONE (SINGAPORE)’s campaign depends upon you. Please consider purchasing a table (or two!) or becoming a sponsor of The ONE Ball.

If you or your organisation would like to become a partner or sponsor for The ONE Ball 2015,  please contact ShuQi at shuqi@onesingapore.org.

For general enquiries, please contact Xiu Xuan at xiuxuan@onesingapore.org.

Additional Information

• Become a Sponsor or a Partner for The ONE Ball 2015
• A novel way to support Sanitation & Make Poverty History campaigns: LKY in Bronze
• The ONE (SINGAPORE) Awards 2015
• The ONE Ball 2013

As world leaders are set to adopt a new set of Global Sustainable Development Goals this week to Leave No One Behind and ensure Dignity for All, the rights and plight of migrants – who now constitute more than 3 percent of the global population – must be addressed.

International migration lies at the core of globalisation. Women, men and children leave their homes – sometimes voluntarily, sometimes not – to escape poverty, inequalities, discrimination and the effects of climate change. While seeking a better life, what they find is often starkly different.

Join ONE (SINGAPORE) and SMU Wee Kim Wee Centre on Monday 28 September to learn more about migration and the economic, social and cultural challenges associated with it.

Reserve your seats here!

Celebrate Hari Raya with Great Music for an important cause!

On the eve of a major UN Summit, when world leaders will adopt 17 new Sustainable Development Goals, join us to #LightTheWay for the #GlobalGoals on Thursday 24 September from 5.30PM to 8.00PM!  We can End Poverty, Inequalities and Climate Change.  But we must let world recive leaders know that we care and will hold them to their promises.

Stand with ONE (SINGAPORE) and millions across the world to #LightTheWay.
Register at bit.ly/SG-GDA today!


Video & Photography by:mydtc VOUX Photography & Film

Climate change affects both men and women, but disproportionately affects communities that are already impoverished and do not bear the bulk of the responsibility for climate change. Plus, 70% of the world’s impoverished are women. Women face social, economic and political barriers that largely prevent them from coping with the threat of climate change, but also prevent them from taking part in crucial decision-making processes to combat global warming. For the United Nation’s International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, join us for a panel discussion with leading female scientists on climate change to learn more about global warming and its wide-reaching impacts on impoverished communities. This event is organised in partnership with Singapore Committee of UN Women and generously hosted by the Science Centre. (FREE Admission)