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Q2) Identify one action on the card which gave you the most sense of satisfaction.

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Q2) Identify one action on the card which gave you the most sense of satisfaction.

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Group activity : Type out your answers to these questions here.

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Group activity : Type out your answers to these questions here.

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Consider what you have just read, seen, or heard, and then ask yourself:

a. Introduce briefly how are these people contributing to the society?
b. What are some difficulties they face? Why did they still continue to help anyways?
c. What new ideas did you get that broadened your thinking or extended it in different directions? (with regards to helping others)

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Identify an action from the Heart-to-Heart card or from the class sharing that you feel strongly about and reflect on the following:

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Identify an action from the Heart-to-Heart card or from the class sharing that you feel strongly about and reflect on the following:

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•One possible challenge you may face in the process and how you can overcome it (with regards to helping others)

OR

•One way in which you can inspire others to take action with you

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You have 15 min to read the article and then 10 min to discuss with your group members. 

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(15 min) In your groups, select 1 article to read and 1 video to watch. You may do read more than 1 article and watch more than 1 video if you have enough time.

(10 min) Discuss on the pointers in activity 3b.

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Explore the meaning of social responsibility and reflect on our role as socially responsible individuals in the community.

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SG Care Stories (Select the article that resonates most with you)

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SG Care Stories (Select the article that resonates most with you)

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Discover the difference YOUR passion can make

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1) What were some challenges that Tony's (the narrator) mother faced?

2) Why did his mother still continue to help the people around her?

3) What do you think Tony learned from his mother?

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1. Understand that we are empowered to initiate and plan activities and programmes to systematically address issues that are within one’s sphere of influence. [2.3.4c]

2. Understand that our contributions at the individual and community level can inspire others to take action and influence positive change. [2.3.4c]

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How can I exercise social responsibility within my sphere of influence?

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How can I exercise social responsibility within my sphere of influence?

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What do you see?

What do you think about that?

What does it make you wonder?

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Q 1) Which actions have you carried out?

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Q 1) Which actions have you carried out?

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Lighting Up Their Twilight Years | CNA Insider

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Giving.sg - Giving made simple, fun and meaningful.

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Giving.sg - Kid Meets Disability Advocate

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18-year-olds Step Up To Volunteer Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

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She Leads Volunteers Who Don't Help People

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Avid volunteer delivered meals to 500 families

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While most Singaporeans were hunkering down at home during the Circuit Breaker period - wondering which drama series to watch next, or when they would be able to meet their friends for bubble tea again - 23 year-old Rini Shazwani Roslan was out in the sun, running from block to block, distributing food to the less privileged.

For those affected financially by COVID-19, financial support like the Temporary Relief Fund and the COVID-19 Support Grant was welcome relief. But volunteers like Rini also help ease the financial burden of daily necessities and food.

"Volunteering is natural to me. Whenever I see an opportunity for me to help, I will always ask if I can be part of the team. I want to help."

Because of her desire to help others, Rini joined voluntary welfare organisation Jamiyah Singapore, as a Human Resource Executive a year ago.

This was not her first experience with Jamiyah FoodBank; she was part of the food distribution team in 2019. But 2020 would be so different - the Ramadan period was entirely within the Circuit Breaker. This meant that Muslim families would not be able to have iftar - the breaking of fast - and Hari Raya gatherings together with members outside their households.

Photo credit: Jamiyah Singapore

It was a harder blow for those living alone in rental flats. Many would have looked forward to the annual time of cheer, festivities and reunion, but were now faced with the prospect of celebrating Ramadan and Hari Raya Puasa by themselves. Some had also experienced a loss of job or income due to COVID-19.

You are not alone

Rini and her team from Jamiyah were determined that those badly affected should not feel alone during this time. They went door to door to over 500 households, distributing bento boxes so that they would have ready meals to break fast.

Besides bento boxes, during weekend before Hari Raya Puasa, they distributed special Meat-for-Eid hampers - festive packages that contained ingredients for Raya dishes - so that their beneficiaries would be able to enjoy some semblance of normalcy and festive cheer during this difficult period.

Whereas in previous years, beneficiaries could queue to collect the festive hampers at a centralised location, congregating in one location in the middle of a pandemic was not advisable.

"It was very much different this year... Because we had to personally visit the homes of the beneficiaries, and that required us to cover quite a bit of distance."

Running from door to door, carrying hampers that weighed about 3kg each on both hands, was no mean feat for petite-sized Rini. While trolleys helped to alleviate the load, the journey across multiple floors and different blocks in Bukit Batok ensured that they were exhausted by the end of the day.

Photo credit: Jamiyah Singapore

Once, pressed for time as they had a long list of households to cover before iftar, they were on the receiving end of a beneficiary's harsh reply, as their hurried knocking was misperceived as being disrespectful. Thankfully, the misunderstanding was quickly cleared up.

Despite these challenges, Rini pressed on.
Photo credit: Jamiyah Singapore
Not content with just a cursory 'Hi' and 'Bye', Rini often makes an effort to chat with them, asking how their day went, or how their health was. Older recipients often remark how grateful they are to have a listening ear.

She remembers fondly an encounter with an elderly lady. Her son had gone to work and she was alone at home. To protect seniors, which are one of the vulnerable groups most susceptible to COVID-19 infection, Rini had to maintain a safe distance - meaning she could not enter her home. However, it was clear to her that the hamper would be too heavy for the elderly lady to carry into her flat by herself.

Worried that her son would be back too late before she would have time to prepare for iftar, Rini helped to arrange for one of the elderly lady's close neighbours to share some cooked dishes with her, so that she would be able to break fast in time.

The gesture touched her deeply. Before Rini left, the lady earnestly made some doa (prayers) for her and her teammate, thanking them for caring for the less fortunate.

Photo credit: Jamiyah Singapore

It started at home

Rini attributes her love for volunteering to her parents and grandparents.

Growing up in a family of active volunteers, since the age of 9, Rini would follow her grandparents to the neighbourhood mosques and elderly homes to help out and spend time with the seniors there.

Her parents, whom she regard as the most generous people she knows of, also had a big influence on her. Her mother often cooks - not just for friends and family - but also for charity events, while her father would always go the extra mile to help those in need.

From following her elders as a child, volunteering eventually became her own way of life.

While working life meant that she would not be able to help out in mosques and homes as much as she used to, Rini tries her best to volunteer at Jamiyah's other outreach activities whenever the opportunity arises.

Asked if these volunteering activities take away precious personal time from her, she answers, "I have never really seen volunteering as an activity that will take up my personal time... Because I see that as my personal time."

She adds, "I really enjoy the satisfaction after meeting the beneficiaries and helping them out."

Asked about her hopes for young people like herself, she says she hopes more will join her in stepping up and giving back to society.

And it doesn't have to be grand gestures, she says.

"If we see an elderly person downstairs, feeling alone, we can make their day just by sitting down with them, talking to them. You don't have to be an active volunteer, going door to door, meeting a lot of people."

"The smallest act of kindness can go a long way."

Photo credit: Jamiyah Singapore

While COVID-19 has been dubbed the crisis of a generation, Rini believes that the key for Singaporeans to bounce back from it is to be united in our efforts, and to stand by one another.

While she acknowledges it is a tough period for young people now, especially those who are still without a job, her hope for her peers is that they would not lose sight of their goals and what they want to achieve.

"Opportunities do exist, even in this current situation."

"Keep an open mind, be kind and compassionate to others, because you don't know what they may be going through. Help other people - who knows, you may be helping yourself as well."

Volunteering her time has served as a reminder for Rini to always remain grateful for everything she has been blessed with in life.

Her message to her fellow youth: "I certainly hope that volunteering will have the same impact on you too!"

This article is part of a series of stories of Singaporean youth who have come forward to help the community, during this fight against COVID-19.

Many have stepped up during this time to help Singapore overcome COVID-19.

For more stories of youths who embody the #SGUnited spirit:

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Rescued an elderly driver | Muhammad Riau Alfian | Singaporean of the Year 2019 finalist

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Volunteer your time. Give in to giving - Best inspiring Animated short film

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Social responsibility is an ethical framework in which an individual is obligated to work and cooperate with other individuals and organizations for the benefit of the community that will inherit the world that individual leaves behind.[

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Social responsibility means that businesses, in addition to maximizing shareholder value, should act in a manner that benefits society.

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To be socially responsible we cannot litter or misuse public items

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taking responsibility for one's own actions

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Social responsibility means that individuals and companies must act in the best interests of their environment and society as a whole

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being a good person by not littering and misusing of public property  as you will damage them.

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Social responsibility meaning is that we should act in a manner that benefits society

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social responsibility means that business in the best interest

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Socially responsible actions that ordinary people can take include: Volunteering. Supporting socially responsible companies through informed spending. Conserving energy by carpooling or turning off unnecessary houselights.

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Social responsibility is an ethical framework in which an individual is obligated to work and cooperate with other individuals and organizations for the benefit of the community that will inherit the world that individual leaves behind.

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know what to do at time

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Social responsibility means that individuals and companies must act in the best interests of their environment and society as a whole.

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sosial responibility is taking care of enviroment

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be socially responsible says do not litter

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make it a habit

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help water neighbour plants when they are not at home

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throw litter at the bin and pickup them so the enviroment will be clean

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take things with responsibilty.

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Direct contributions by donations

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community and virtual volunteering

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When you need help seek for help

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Pick up litter in the bin from someone littered

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you can be caring and helpful by Working for the community, such as volunteering, giving blood donations, and working at a food bank or animal shelter.

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Some of the most common examples of CSR include:
1) Reducing carbon footprints
2) Improving labor policies
3) Participating in fairtrade
4) Diversity equity and in clusion
5) Charitable global giving
6) Community and virtual volunteering

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if anyone is not doing the right thing we must tell them that it is wrong and teach them

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dont litter and turn off unecessary house lights

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volunteer

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I exercise social responsibility is to take care of the enviroment

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Examples of being socially responsible, help pick up trash or things that can cause harm to people

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do not litter and throw them in the rubbish bin.

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if u see litter on the floor pick it up and throw in the bin

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help everyone

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supporting socially responsible companies through informed spending

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do not litter

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Dont see and walk away
(e.g) Like when you see people throwing
things anyhow tell them to throw in the right way and not throw at the floor

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Tony’s mother volunteer to help people who are in need and care for people and donate thing people to need it

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1) people not wanting Tony's mother help

2) because she cares for the people

3) always help one another no matter what

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1. the mother try to help the uncle  by feeding him food but he hit the food away

2.she was kind and too her helping others makes her feel happy

2. be kind and help others

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1) Some people make things hard for his  mother

2) His mother liked to help the community although it was hard she liked seeing people happy

3) He learnt why his mother did all these things for the people he also helped people with their needs

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1: Tony's mother faced difficulty help others
2:She didn't gave up to help them
3:She always help others when they need help although they did not say anything but Tony's mother still help the others.

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1 . nobody wants to help them
2 she continue to help bcos she is a kind person
3 . to help people who needs it

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Tony´s mother faced challenges like make a different to many people live

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1. tony's mother tried to take care of so many people and some of them gave her a hard time .
2. is because she cares and know that some people are having trouble with food.
3. no matter how rude people can be u need to be patient with them.

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people did not want to thank her when she help them

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1. hard times for people that never thank her for helping them. (so rude right ik)
2. because she loves helping them no matter if they were rude.
3. he learned that he will follow his mother to help other people

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1)tony ́s mother would face people that would not accept her kindness
2)tony ́s mother still helped people as she wanted to make people ́s day better and help them when they are having a bad time
3)tony learned that no matter how rude or angry people are kindness should still be shown towards them

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1) Tony´s mother dosen´t need any help
2) Because she wanted to help the people when she was around
3) Tony learn from his mother to help the others too

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1) the mother were feeding some random uncle and the  uncle did not want it and shouted at her ..

2)the mother has a big heart for the people who are in need

3)be kind and help people in need

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1:  people were so *obnoxious* towards her and people who she helped didnt even helped her ( the uncle didnt wanted to eat

wanted to eat and the uncle got angry )
2: because she wants to be a helpful person by showing her responsibility  towards people.

3:  he learned how to be kindhearted and being friendly

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people not appreciate tony mom help

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1. she saw a girl getting beaten up with her mother and she try to stop her. She feed a uncle but then he push the food away.

2. she like to help people around her.

3. he finally understand why his mother help those people that are in need because that is the only reason thta can make her happy.

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1)Tony's mother help a little girl because the mother said she did something wrong but she did not want her to get hurt by her mother.
2) because every time she help people she feels great
3)Tony learned that she is a kind to everyone because she want people to have a habit of helping people in need

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Saving Plastic Bags

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donate money to charity drive to an offen

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raise funds for a good cause

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taking care of animals in need

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returning my tray after every meal it is satisfying to give the cleaners a easier time when they are working

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take public transport or walk to nearby destinations instead of taking a car or taxi cuz i too broke to pay for taxi so just walk or take bus

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Help the community and help people who need help and. Making little kid happy

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stand up for schoolmates who are being bullied because it may become bigger by one being injured

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Clean up the parks

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take care of the animal

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1) What were some challenges that Tony´s mother faced?
ans.1) Tony´s mother faced difficulty´s like helping others but then when Tony´s mother asked for help at first place nobody one to help but then slowly Tony´s mother choose to give some random people food and some other thing.

2) Why did his mother still continue to help the people around her?
ans.2) Because she feel like there are not many people to talk to and help her with some things that she is giving away like food things that she dont need other things.

3) What do you think Tony learned from his mother
ans.3) Tony has learn that his mother like to be in peoples problem and he has learned why his mother is different from other mother.

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When i give goodie bags the the needy i can be sure he or she will not go to sleep with a empty stomach

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i helped my fathers friends using digital device

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taking care of animals lol