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The Gift of Learning
Cambodian social workers learn speech therapy skills to better assist disabled young charges. |
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Teaching & Learning Together
After six years teaching in Singapore, Russell Neu, 31, became a Singapore Volunteer Overseas with the Singapore International Foundation, teaching English in Vientiane. He shares how living in Laos has given him a chance to slow down, rekindle his love for teaching and even improve his soccer skills! |
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From Vancouver to Singapore
When he's not teaching, Canadian expat Shawn Tripp spends much of his time doing volunteer work for various welfare organizations. Singapore Kopitiam talks with the former Vancouver native about family life in Singapore. |
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Bringing IT to Bhutan
Professor Philip Wong is team leader of a Singapore Volunteers Overseas project on IT in Education in Bhutan. He shares how his work in the Buddhist land for the past six years has changed him and what keeps him going back. |
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Lifelong Friends Formed over Dissections
When ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgeon Dr Luke Tan of Gleneagles Medical Centre led his team of ENT specialists to Vietnam for the first phase of the ENT Specialist project in 2000, they gave the Vietnamese an experience they’d never had before— dissecting a cadaver. |
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Dispelling the Myths of Volunteering
First-time overseas volunteer and lecturer from Republic Polytechnic shares the real deal on volunteering in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. |
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Doing their bit for Hanoi
Unbeknownst to most visitors of Bishan Public Library on Friday, 11 December, there were a few heroes in the vicinity. Secreted away in a small room in the library’s basement, they spent the afternoon working to brighten the lives of impoverished children in faraway Vietnam. |
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Bridging the Divide
Physio training in Cambodia brings about an exchange of technical as well as cultural ideas. |
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