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I hope to make a difference in the mentee's life by adding value and empowering them while helping them discover their true potential.

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Hope and Believe i will be a mentor to help shape my mentees into a virtuous cycle

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Hope and Believe i will be a mentor to help shape my mentees into a virtuous cycle

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I would like to be someone my mentees feel they can trust, someone who encourages them and guides them towards tapping into their potential.

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I want to be a trusted friend to my mentee - someone who can be a listening ear, or a cheerleader. I hope I can be of help to them to be better poised to navigate through their personal and academic journey.

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I hope to be a trusted friend, someone my mentee can come to in time of challenge and to celebrate their success.

I want to be a positive impact in their life, a role model they can bring with them and pass forward to the next generation.

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I hope to be a mentor whom my mentee can reach out to, not just to give guidance but also be there to listen without judgement. I’ve gained gifts from mentors throughout my personal and professional journey. I would like my mentee to experience the same gifts discovery through the mentoring engagement.

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I want to be a mentor that inspires my mentees through my actions and show them that they are more that what they think they are!

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Secondary school was probably the worst years of my life. I was going through so many personal issues and I felt alone and that nobody could be there for me to help me. Although I came out alright afterwards, I wouldn't wish that on anyone and that's why I want to make sure that I can help other kids who might be going through the same thing I did.

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I want to be a Mentor to help other kids like me who didn’t have an adult to care for and believe that they are more then what they see themselves to be

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To be a good role model for my mentees

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To be a listening ear that I wished someone was for me. Also, to give back to the Malay-Muslim community that has undoubtedly contributed to my academic and professional success. I believe that mentoring benefits not just the mentee but the mentor and I look forward to learn as much from this experience to foster my own growth. I know what it is like to stay stuck, not know what to do with your potential that you still have yet to find and having low self-esteem and low self-efficacy. I would like to be that voice for someone to say that "you are not alone. let's figure this out together".

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1. Why do I want to become a mentor for youth?
I want to become a mentor for troubled youth because I genuinely care about their well-being and want to make a positive difference in their lives. I believe that every young person deserves a chance to thrive and reach their full potential, even in challenging circumstances. By offering my guidance, support, and understanding, I hope to provide them with the tools and encouragement they need to overcome their difficulties and build a brighter future.

2. What do I aspire to change?
I aspire to change the trajectory of troubled youth by offering them a positive role model and a source of inspiration. Many of these young individuals may be facing various challenges such as low self-esteem, academic struggles, behavioral issues, or difficult family situations. Through mentoring, I aim to instill confidence, resilience, and a sense of hope in them. I aspire to help them develop essential life skills, such as effective communication, problem-solving, and decision-making, which can empower them to navigate challenges and make better choices in their lives.

3. What do I hope to achieve by the end of my mentoring relationship?
By the end of my mentoring relationship, I hope to have established a strong connection and trust with the troubled youth I am mentoring. I want them to feel supported, understood, and valued. Through our interactions, I aim to help them develop a positive mindset, improved self-awareness, and a belief in their own potential. Ultimately, I hope to witness positive changes in their behavior, attitude, and overall well-being. By providing guidance, encouragement, and a safe space for them to express themselves, I want to empower them to overcome their challenges, set and achieve personal goals, and develop a brighter and more promising future for themselves.

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I do not want any of the youth to be like me. I do not share my feelings with others which is not a good habit. Becoming a mentor will not only help my mentees open up but it will also help me in realizing that it's okay to share. I believe that helping others will also help ourselves.

I aspire to change their mindset from negative to positive as life has much more to offer.

By the end of this mentoring relationship, I hope ti help my mentees realize their true potential and help facilitate a change in their mindset and also help myself by becoming a good listening ear

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for our future generation, rooted and optimistic

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Mentors have been big shapers in the choices I made and make through school and work. Their wisdom and insights opened me up to the bigger picture, making firm my trust in the process towards achieving my goals. I think its time I tried doing the same for someone else.

Hopefully what lessons I've accumulated, from others as well, I can impart to someone in need of it. Throughout this mentoring journey, I aim to rectify any gaps on my part and grow together with my mentee. In my experience, doing research on alternative directions was fine but it did not give me the assurance that I had with counsellor and teacher advice. The feedback and guidance I had was more targeted; coming up with frameworks that I could rely and base my plans on. Helping in decision making and evaluation are things I'd like to offer my mentee as well.

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I want to become a mentor as i hope to instil hope within the youths who may feel like its the end. These youths are a reflection of my siblings, so I would want to guide them as a mentor, friend or even a sister.

I aspire to change their mindsets and attitudes so that they are aware of the love and support that they are receiving from the community.

I hope to foster a new relationship with my mentee, one where i get to learn from her experiences as well and grow further.

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As a Mentor i aims to create resilient, competent and contributive youth of the future, by providing holistic development through Education, Sports, Community & Entrepreneurship. This will help to address educational needs, simplify difficult learning, develop and empower youth in reaching their full potential.

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As a Mentor i aims to create resilient, competent and contributive youth of the future, by providing holistic development through Education, Sports, Community & Entrepreneurship. This will help to address educational needs, simplify difficult learning, develop and empower youth in reaching their full potential.

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I hope I could help out anyone in needs or assist. I would like to be a listener and also a guidance to my mentee.

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To inspire others to be that difference. Encouragement do what is right, not necessarily what is easy.

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I would like to volunteer my time and effort to help other youth from minority and underprivileged backgrounds to find meaning, purpose and stability in Singapore, as my family and my ancestors have done for centuries. My very first teaching position in the Ministry of Education was teaching Normal (Technical) English in Choa Chu Kang Secondary School, a position that I not only greatly enjoyed, but which inspired me to work toward understanding novel and creole/indigenous approaches to teaching students from underprivileged backgrounds regardless of race, religion or sexuality that supported not just their academic achievement, but their socioemotional development and psychological mental health and well-being as well. This early work, and the tragic and sudden death of one of my Choa Chu Kang students in 2016, would later further inspire me to go on to pioneer a new theory of the human psyche grounded in Kristang (Portuguese-Malay) ways of being and thinking, known as the Osura Pesuasang / Individuation Theory, which I used in my later work in Eunoia Junior College to not just support my students through the COVID-19 pandemic, but to achieve absolutely stunning performance in H1 General Paper / JC-level English at the top of their cohort in 2022. I am also a sexual abuse and suicide survivor, and wish to continue to help other youth of colour in Singapore struggling with their academics and lives, and to respectfully help them to continue to contribute to our island home in ways that respect their own race, religion, language and sexual orientation, especially as Singapore's first and still only out gay and non-binary civil servant, teaching scholar and educator in a government institution.

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I want to become a mentor because mentoring enables me to step outside my comfort zone to collaborate with others and to gain new insights on certain things. Not only that, being able to mentor allows me to look at the world differently and understand the people around me better.

To put it bluntly, what I aspire to change when mentoring s to be able to change bad habits into good one or being able to be there for my mentee, giving advices and sharing my difficulties and hurdles that I had once experienced.

I hope to achieve that at the end of my mentoring relationship, I just hope that my mentee is able to have good take aways especially coming from me.

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When I look back i feel things would have been different if i had a mentor in my early career . So many things around us and we often confused with too many options and biased decisions based on peer comparions. I have hard learned many life experiences in last 20 years . This world is so fast and advanced even if I make an impact in one life I am successful . Its a journey and mentoring will help me to become a great human.

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Although I have never officially had the opportunity to be a mentee, I am thankful for my parents, teachers, and those who have been rooting for me until today. Now, I'd like to seek the chance to contribute back to the society, develop my interpersonal skills and learn more from the experiences of people around me.

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Mentoring - or volunteering, in general, is my way of giving back to society. I want to be able to contribute positively to the society, to people around me and the environment we breathe in. 

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Mentoring - or volunteering, in general, is my way of giving back to society. I want to be able to contribute positively to the society, to people around me and the environment we breathe in. 

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I want to be a mentor because I want to better the lives of young minds. I want them to realise their potential and make good choices for themselves. Through this experience, I hope to learn how to be a better active listener and to broaden my horizons by meeting people from all walks of life. I hope my voice can enact change in the lives around me.

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I hope to be the mentor who will help my mentees grow and develop into their best versions through sharing my life experiences. I hope to be able to use my knowledge, experiences and skills to help them reach their potential.

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I hope to be the mentor who will help my mentees grow and develop into their best versions through sharing my life experiences. I hope to be able to use my knowledge, experiences and skills to help them reach their potential.

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When I was younger, it was difficult for me to decide on my own so I made a couple of wrong decisions in my career. Looking back, I thought I could have done better if I had someone more experienced and wiser in life to listen to and to discuss what aspects and factors should I consider before making a decision. This experience is my driving factor. I once felt lost and struggled through my career/life. I want to be able to help someone make better decisions and prevent the same mistakes I hat.  I want to be able to lend a listening ear and give a perspective that can help one in powering through challenges.

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I want to be a mentor to give insight to the youth who may have dream but need courage induced from our motivation, who don't have dream and live without direction, but need to see how they can live in a difference from hearing our story. If someone needs our small empowerment, why don't we go ahead and provide care ?

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I want to be a mentor to empower the youth who are the future of our society. Every youth has the potential and I hope I can bring positive impact to their life so they then became a leader or mentor to the next generation.

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I want to be a mentor because its the least i can do after everything i have been given.

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I want to be a mentor because its the least i can do after everything i have been given.

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i want to be able to make a differences in someone else's life

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I applied to be a mentor in hope to be a person that can be of help or a friend or a guide to youth that I will meet. Hope to be able to go thru the program journey tgt with the mentee and foster good relationship that mentee feel safe to share

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I would like to become a mentor to empower the youth of today, to take charge of their life for a better tomorrow for them and for the world at large.

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I want to become a mentor as I believe every youth deserves to be raised in  a nurturing and positive environment regardless of their socio-economic background. I aspire to change the mindset of the youths from lower socio-economic families that they, just like anybody else, have the capabilities to thrive and succeed in life. At the end of my mentoring journey, I hope to motivate my mentees to be great individuals and to do good for the community.

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I want to become a mentor because I want to be there for them through their journeys, be a listening ear, support them to find their solutions and learn from them on different aspects of life. I believe mentoring is a two way communication where we learn from one another and I hope to share my experiences, which can be of some help in the mentee's journey.

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I want to be a mentor as I want to be there for someone and guide them through their challenges. I want to share my experiences with them. I believe that I am able to create a safe environment for them to open up.

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I want to become a mentor because I want to help. I want to steer my mentee towards success by helping them achieve what they want. I aspire to change the thought process to a positive one that helps create positivity and motivation. By the end of the mentorship process I want my mentee to be self driven positive individual who is able to take the right decisions by himself/herself.

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I have mentors in my life who have helped me become who I am today. Their encouragements and guidance have brought me to where I am now. I believe in the potential of people and I hope that I can be their support when things get tough. In a sense, I hope I can pay it forward.

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I wanted to share the experience and hurdles in my life that thought me patience ,resilience, determination and courage. Mentoring would be one of the path to give away to the community in terms of providing right guidance in someone’s life .

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I wanted to share the experience and hurdles in my life that thought me patience ,resilience, determination and courage. Mentoring would be one of the path to give away to the community in terms of providing right guidance in someone’s life .

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Mentoring is all about listening without judgement and help your mentee feel there is someone who is ready to listen and understand them as they say “Listening is the greatest gift anyone can give to others”! This is the start and once that happens everything flows like a river!

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Mentoring is all about listening without judgement and help your mentee feel there is someone who is ready to listen and understand them as they say “Listening is the greatest gift anyone can give to others”! This is the start and once that happens everything flows like a river!

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I want to become a mentor because I want to make an impact to the community, no matter how small. I hope that by the end of my mentoring program, I could see perhaps change in mindsets that youths may had when it comes to achieving their goals and staying motivated. Even though I may actually not see it, the friendship that we will develop could go a long way and I can't wait to see what my mentee and I could do and learn from each other.

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I want to become a mentor because I want to make an impact to the community, no matter how small. I hope that by the end of my mentoring program, I could see perhaps change in mindsets that youths may had when it comes to achieving their goals and staying motivated. Even though I may actually not see it, the friendship that we will develop could go a long way and I can't wait to see what my mentee and I could do and learn from each other.

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I want to be a mentor as I want to pass on the torch of what my mentor had done for me. Similar to my past mentors, I would like to be a positive role model and someone who can guide the new generation of our future

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I want to be a mentor because I want to a have positive impact to the people around me. And I hope just to be a listening ear and really hear them and empower them better! :)

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I will strive to gain mastery over life's challenges through increasing my circle of influence and de-emphasizing those areas of concern over which I have no control. As a mentor statement is an important document that shows what you value. It should reveal both your pedagogical skills and beliefs, and your personal values. I’ll continue to be positive.

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I know how challenging it is to face everything alone is one of the reasons why I want to become a mentor. I want to guide and be a listening ear to the mentee so that he can see the bigger picture in all of this. I hope to see the next generation being able to move forward and face their challenges in ease and achieve their goals.

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I hope to be a good role model for my mentees and set a decent standard as a mentor. I know how much losing someone can mentally affect one's mental health and it can go either way; to do better or change and stop pursuing. I hope I can inspire my mentees with the positive mindset to set for every challenges faced.

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I pledge to ensure that I try my best to create a positive shift in the new generation. I also intend to try my best to allow them to analyze their problems and find their own positive, suitable solutions.

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I hope to be a positive role model to others and empower our next generation. I would like to see our youths chasing their dreams regardless of the challenges and obstacles they may face. I hope that I am able to empower and inspire my mentee to build a resilient mindset so they could continue to overcome life on their own, but they should also know that I will always be there for them when they need me.

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I know how much one caring person can affect and effect change in an individual. I want to be that person. Even if its just to choose a career path, to navigate adulting or just to share their thoughts and problems, I believe I can be that caring person.

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I've been able to achieve many things in life because I have guidance from an amazing Mentor. I intend to do my part by trying to paying it forward.

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I've been able to achieve many things in life because I have guidance from an amazing Mentor. I intend to do my part by trying to paying it forward.

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I want to empower people to make a change for the better in their life. My role is not to give solutions but instead to help and empower clients to find their own solutions and give them a listening ear and support. I hope I can make a small change in my client life