Project Share the Care SG encourages Singaporeans to provide support to caregivers Share the Care SG is a campaign put forward by four students from Nanyang Technological University to encourage Singaporeans to provide support for people who help those with special needs. This campaign highlights the challenges these caregivers face and educates the community on how to provide help to family-caregivers they know. It is an unusual target audience, but it is a prominent social issue in Singapore and here is how Share the Care SG made it work: Why help the caregivers instead of the disabled or people with special needs? Source The group of four students wanted their final year project to be a meaningful social campaign that will impact the lives of others in our community. There are events that reach out to people with special needs like The Purple Parade and the 8th ASEAN Para Games in 2015. However, very few were directly targeting the family-caregivers who take care of these people with special needs. Caregivers move mountains when taking care of people with special needs Source After having interviewed more than 20 family-caregivers, Share the Care SG noticed that their main concerns largely hover around four broad categories: Emotional Financial Physical Concerns Future […]
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