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Citizens can help decrease the number of food insecure families by partaking in organisations like The Food Bank. To be food insecure is to not have enough money to fund for you and your families 3 daily meals. Though Singapore was ranked the world’s most food-secure in 2019, 1 in 10 Singaporeans still encounter this problem, at least once every 12 months. To combat this issue, citizen-initiated beneficiaries such as The Food Bank, Willing Hearts and Food from the Heart, aim to provide these less fortunate families with a parcel of free, fresh and nutritious food for them to consume.

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Involvement in volunteerism or other social movements. This results in a greater sense of belonging in society, less social-related issues, e.g less environmental pollution. Leads to stability and the wish to support country in greater efforts. Environment organisations like Zero Waste SG, a Singaporean non-government organisation that focuses on multiple fronts of tackling environmental issues. They also utilise multiple methods to help save the environment, including influencing the government to make decisions to help improve the environment. We as citizens can help support this through a myriad of methods including donations, volunteering, or sponsoring them. Ultimately these acts cater and contribute to the society as they are giving back to the government.

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Citizens should stop littering at beaches, lakes, reservoirs, canals and other water bodies to prevent water contamination. We can also dispose of toxic chemicals properly to prevent toxic chemicals from ending up in water bodies and polluting water. If we continue to not do anything about water pollution, our waters will be very polluted and it may endanger underwater animals.  Water pollution can damage entire food chains. When people drop their trash in the water, fish and mammals that live in the water could be hurt by them. If a fish or mammal eats a piece of trash, then it could die. Altered water temperatures caused by people can kill all aquatic life in a pond or a lake.

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Citizens can strengthen their sense of belonging by participating in events and activities in the community. Through such activities organised by RCs, citizens can come together and interact with one another. They would have an opportunity to have stronger bonds and eventually develop a deeper understanding of people with different backgrounds. This can build a stronger sense of belonging as citizens will feel that they belong to the community or the country through interacting with other citizens.

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citizens can strengthen their sense of belonging by partaking in activities hosted by the Residents’s Committee (RCs) which  introduced was  in 1978 to promote neighbourliness, racial harmony and community cohesiveness amongst residents within their respective RC zones in their neighbourhoods. The RC run by residents thor the residents,they host events and activities which encourage interaction between neighbours. Through such activities organised by RCs, citizens come together and interact with one another. They build stronger bonds and have a deeper understanding of people with different backgrounds (local, non local, race, religion). This can build a stronger sense of belonging as citizens will feel more belonged to the place and country through constant interaction

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Citizens can donate money to charitable organisations that collect donations to help the needy. By doing so,the lives of many people in need will become better as the donations received can ease their financial burdens a little. This will allow them to be able to afford at least a simple and proper meal or even some basic necessities.

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citizens can work for the good of society by helping to clean up the community. By doing so, the community can be a better place to live in and it would be a more environmentally conducive. For example, UnLitter Red Dot in Singapore is a family-and-children friendly programme that aims to bring clean and safe living environments in the community. It was created to nurture a culture and society that is more civic minded and considerate. Therefore, when citizens volunteer to help clean the community, they are doing their part in keeping Singapore clean and conducive.

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Citizens can meet government officials to suggest things. For example, Our Conversation Singapore (OSC) was a conversation held by the government in 2012 for the government to have an understanding of the aspirations of Singaporeans. This means that Singaporeans can change the way the government might prioritise certain things. The government would be able to act according to what the community thinks is important. Thus allowing citizens to influence the government's decisions.

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Some ways citizens can contribute to society is individuals can come together to carry out activities or programmes to help others in tough times. For example, ground-up initiatives have sprung up to help foreign workers who have been affected by Singapore’s "circuit breaker" measures that are aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19. COVID Migrant Support Coalition, an informal group consisting of volunteers from Geylang Adventures, ItsRainingRaincoats, Singapore Migrant Friends and Migrant X Me, has been distributing lunch and dinner packs since Tuesday (Apr 7), when the measures were implemented. This act of kindness brought about encouragement and spread understanding, awareness about how hard the migrant worker’s were hit by COVID-19. It also helped migrant workers by providing them with food and necessities. By volunteering their time, efforts and money towards a social cause that they are passionate and concerned about. Their actions benefited many people in the society and inspired many others.

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Citizens can initiate conversation with their neighbours, improving relationships with each other. (E.g greeting each other in the morning)

Citizens should always verify the truth of the news, to prevent the spread of fake news as this can cause panic may result in unwanted situations. (e.g panic buying)

Citizens can volunteer to do community work to help people in need in the community. (E.g Distributing food and basic necessities to Low-income families who struggle to make ends meet) This way the beneficiaries will feel that they are not alone and are included in the society.

As they feel a strong sense of belonging in this country, they are more likely to want to contribute to improve the conditions of Singapore.

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Citizens can volunteer at charities or organizations. One example of an organization is “Food from the Heart”. A good amount of food is wasted everyday but the programme aims to reduce this. One of their programmers is “Food from the Heart's Bread Programme” by collecting bread from various bakeries islandwide and distributing the baked good to the beneficiaries. By volunteering, we can contribute to the society. Most importantly, we can alleviate hunger by providing reliable, consistent and sustainable food support to the less-fortunate through food distribution programmes.

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Citizens have an important role to improve and sustain the
general well-being of a society. Often, citizens contribute in
areas they are passionate and concerned about. As a result,
there is a greater sense of ownership and commitment
towards these causes. This leads to long term involvement
which would ensure sustainable benefits to society.For example,"A Litter at a Time" programme started by Ms Elisa Ng in 2013 encourages citizens to go the extra mile and pick up a piece of litter a day.

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All citizens have responsibilities to contribute back to the society as they are all connected to other members of the community. Citizens can contribute to the good of society and advance the country. As a result, it brings about progress and harmony in the country.

In Singapore, men have the responsibility to participate in National Service. As Singapore is a small nation, it is difficult for Singapore to have a professional army. Thus, Singapore boys between 17-19 join National Service for two years. After that, they are put in a reserve force to be called up in emergencies. National Service helps to build Singapore’s defence and enables its political and economic stability.

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Participation in things like Our Singapore conversation, a national level conversation where citizens come together to discuss and share their views about current situations in Singapore. By participating in events like this, the government can be aware of the needs and wants of Singaporeans and improve the country accordingly. Through Our Singapore Conversation, citizens brought up the subject of healthcare and thus Medisheild Life was introduced for the benefit of citizens

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Citizens should refrain from littering in water bodies like lakes,rivers, oceans,reservoirs.This is to prevent water contamination and water pollution.Any toxic waste should be dispose properly and not into water bodies that are essential to the needs of citizens.If we all work together to prevent water pollution,our waters will be cleaner and not dirty and muddy.Marine animals will also be beneficial to this as they would not have to swim in contaminated waters and suffocate to death.

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Xavier Wong 3-5 Influencing government decisions

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Xavier Wong 3-5 Influencing government decisions

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Citizens should try and influence their government’s decisions and policies as they are the ones who serve to benefit the most from influencing the governments decisions. This is because by announcing their wishes and needs to the government, their government can understand and appropriately respond to their needs so the citizens do not feel neglected. For example, REACH Singapore: a consultation platform that collects input from Singaporeans on policy and programmatic issues raised by government agencies, and allows civil servants to publicly respond to feedback from the citizens. REACH also publishes materials on national issues, such as the Singapore Budget and National Day Rally Speeches, in an attempt to be a one-stop information portal for citizens. REACH allows for the government/ civil servants to come up with  measures to appease the citizens wishes and desires. This is especially important as if the citizens who wishes are responded to or granted , they may feel valued in the country, resulting in efficiency of passing laws and stability of the country. Therefore, citizens influencing government decisions is important as it m,Akers them feel valued and know that the government is listening and trying to make them country a better place for them to live in.

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Singapore citizens can also contribute by volunteering in social movements. For example, environmental organisations like Zero Waste Sg, a Singaporean non-government organisation that focuses on multiple fronts to help save the environment. They want to publish an inaugural Zero Waste Masterplan this year to raise awareness of waste issues in Singapore and articulate the government’s efforts to adopt a circular economy approach to sustainable waste and resource management. Us citizens can then help work towards becoming a zero waste nation by reducing our consumption of materials and energy, reusing and recycling them to give them a second lease of life. By reusing, we can reduce the amount of waste by not disposing the materials that we have but instead use/create them into something new. With all these contributions, we can then ensure a Zero Waste future.

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Citizens should stop littering at beaches,parks and reservoirs and other water bodies to prevent water pollution and water contamination.In order to prevent this we must dispose our trash and toxic chemical accordingly so they don’t end up in water bodies and polluting our waters.If we keep on littering and polluting our waters,it can endanger the underwater animals and also have a effect on us.It will disrupt the food chain and we are also a consumer in the food chain so it will eventually end up affecting us too.For example some fishes may accidentally consume plastic materials and when we eat the fish the toxic plastic will eventually end up in our stomach and hurt us too.And also aquactic life in pond or lakes are also being killed by our irresponsible actions.In order to prevent that we must be more responsible of our actions.We can also volunteer in some organisations help clean beaches,parks and other water bodies.By this we can reduce  the chance of polluting the water and killing marine animals and also contribute to the needs of the society.

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Citizens can carry out activities and programmes to help others and encourage them in tough times. Example, “Aanya Rao, bridging art and healthcare,” Aanya is passionate about art, and in 2020, she started an initiative “Art connect,” to connect youths with artistic talent to healthcare, providing a creative platform for youths to display their art in healthcare centres. The 14- year old was able to create a cheerful environment for patients, residents and staff in the centres. By doing so, patients felt better and were able to enjoy what they like despite being bedridden. Aanya Rao contributed to the society by inspiring others to follow in her steps, as well as helping others to get by more cheerfully through her passion.

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Citizens can influence government decisions so their decisions and policies can benefit the people and fulfil their needs. Citizens can voice their thoughts and opinions to the government through Our Singapore Conversation in 2012. It allows residents and citizens to convey their concerns or ideas about how to improve Singapore to the ministers through dialogue sessions. The government will be able to get a wide spectrum of opinions, ideas, and problems faced by Singaporeans, and they will be able to cater to the needs of Singaporeans better. Thus, citizens are able to influence government decisions by communicating their needs to the government, hence, citizens need to be able to communicate their requests to the government so that the government can implement policies that benefit the people.

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Citizens can work for the good of society through volunteering in non-profit organisations where the programmes that these organisations have are areas that these citizens are interested in.Citizens can volunteer at organisations such as Food from the heart which has food distribution programmes such as Project Belanja! and Bread Run which provides the needy with free meals. Food from the heart not only helps to feed the needy in our society but also reduce food wastage as F&B shops usually discard all foods that are left unsold at the end of the day. Volunteers from Bread Run make weekly trips to bakeries and collect the unsold bread which will be sent to places such as nursing and children homes for the elderly and children. Issac and Jin,a Singaporean couple who have been Food from the heart volunteers for 15 years, make the weekly bread runs as a family outing as they want to teach their children to volunteer in future to help others that are in need. Issac and Jin are very happy to see that there are more bakeries contributing their unsold bread to the Bread run which shows that the Bread Run programme is very successful.Whenever Issac and Jin see the smiles of the people at the children and nursing homes,they feel immeasurable joy as they are appreciated for their work.Bread run also sends pastries to poorer families where breakfast is being provided for these families and saves them a few dollars.This can add up to quite a lot of money as assuming that these families eat bread everyday and cost quite a lot in a month.These money can be  nspent on household products instead.This shows that citizens are able to help the needy through contributing their time of delivering food to these people and are able to help these people save money on their meals.This helps to cope with the rising cost of living due to the Covid-19 situation and ongoing Russian-Ukraine War which led to the inflation of many household products. Food from the heart helps the poorer families to need not worry as much for their meals as it will be settled by the organisation.

Therefore,Citizens can work for the good of society through volunteering in non-profit organisations such as Food from the heart which helps the needy to scope with the rising cost of living.

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Citizens can initiate conversation with their neighbours, improving relationships with each other like greeting each other in the morning. This will ensure that they do not feel left out in the community and have a sense of belonging towards the community

Citizens should always verify the truth of the news, to prevent the spread of fake news as this can cause panic may result in unwanted situations. (e.g panic buying)

Citizens can volunteer to do community work to help people in need in the community. (E.g Distributing food and basic necessities to Low-income families who struggle to make ends meet) This way the beneficiaries will feel that they are not alone and are included in the society. As they feel a strong sense of belonging in this country, they are more likely to want to contribute to improve the conditions of Singapore.