Simple repair work

Simple repair work

Daniel Ow has turned his skills into helping seniors in need.   Daniel Ow has always enjoyed doing handy work even when young. For years, he has been saving money and handling his own house maintenance without the need of an external handyman. In May 2021, he saw...
Giving back

Giving back

This year’s RSVP Volunteer of the Year shares his volunteering journey.   Sium Yeap Tong is grateful for having benefitted from over 25 years working in IT in a Singapore bank. As such, he decided, he wanted to give back to society in a meaningful way. In...
Swimming programme for stroke survivors

Swimming programme for stroke survivors

ABLE has resumed its programme and is open for those below 67.   Social service agency ABLE has resumed its swimming lessons for stroke survivors. The programme is open to anyone below the age of 67. Due to COVID, the programme took a pause. This specialised...
Coming full circle

Coming full circle

Gary Teo was a caregiver for his mother and sister who had dementia and now he is helping clients with dementia.   Dementia is something 77-year-old Gary Teo knows quite a bit about. Five years before his mother, Lim Geok Lam, passed away in 2007, he shared that...
Turning a new leaf

Turning a new leaf

David Pattiselanno was leading a very active life till an accident made him take a different road. BY: Eleanor Yap David Pattiselanno, 81, was a bit of a daredevil when younger. There wasn’t a challenge he wasn’t up to. In 1960s, thanks to his younger brother’s...
A man on a mission

A man on a mission

Cyril Ong has found meaning in his life and he is on a mission to help as many people as he can. BY: Eleanor Yap Things were a lot different for Cyril Ong, 72, many years ago. He didn’t get to spend as much time with his family as he worked in the US for a life...
Forever youthful

Forever youthful

It is not just about diet, it encompasses a whole lot more, shared a 59-year-old advocate of “holistic wealth”. BY: Perine Seah What is ageing? What does it mean to you? To me, it is not about a chronological number nor physical degeneration but rather...
“Re-tyring” with a purpose

“Re-tyring” with a purpose

RSVP Singapore launches new initiative to engage seniors in workplaces.   To encourage more seniors to serve the community, non-profit organisation RSVP Singapore has launched a pre-retirement initiative in Singapore targeted at employees 45 years and above....
Social volunteering network

Social volunteering network

A new Web app has come out where volunteers can do tasks for the needy or you can request help personally.   If you are looking for help to fix your computer or even get someone to accompany your loved one to the hospital, you might want to consider using a new...
Destined to serve

Destined to serve

It was chance that brought Priscilla Theseira to a career in special education and she hasn’t looked back since. BY: Eleanor Yap Priscilla Theseira accidentally chanced upon a career in special education and from that time, she has never looked back. “I was a...
Senior volunteers create e-learning programme

Senior volunteers create e-learning programme

RSVP Singapore launches e-learning module to encourage seniors to learn and embrace technology. Voluntary welfare organisation (VWO) RSVP Singapore has developed an e-learning programme with senior volunteers and staff. The first of its kind, the programme aims to...
Youth of the Labour Movement give back

Youth of the Labour Movement give back

A new initiative empowers the youth to start meaningful projects for the community and make a difference.   Seniors and other beneficiaries and causes are being reached out to by a new initiative by the youth wing of the National Trade Union Congress (NTUC)...
Giving back

Giving back

Growing up poor motivates this 65-year-old to give back. BY: Marilyn Peh When police and civil defence personnel converged at a neighbouring block one evening two months ago, 65-year-old Annie Lim rushed to the scene immediately. No, she wasn’t acting out of kaypoh...
Giving in the golden years

Giving in the golden years

RSVP’s Ngiam Tong Yuen takes home the first volunteerism award for seniors during the annual President’s Volunteerism & Philanthropy Awards.   Ngiam Tong Yuen, who has served on RSVP Singapore’s Board of Management for over 10 years and is currently the 1st...