Skillseed: Resilience Trails

School Levels

Secondary, Pre-U

Participants who experience the trails gain deeper empathy, understanding and appreciation of our vulnerable communities’ lived experiences. Finally, the trails also placemake, as they highlight and connect the various community assets, thus becoming a springboard for community collaboration and convening.

Resilience Trails is Skillseed’s place-based, asset-driven and community-led initiative that provides flexible, high wage and home-oriented work opportunities to lower-income families, through the medium of paid community trails in our Community Guides’ neighbourhoods. Beyond simply being a means to boost the earnings of our Community Guides, the Resilience Trails further serve as a platform that promotes the agency, voice and dignity of our Guides, by drawing out their personal stories and strengths without downplaying their challenges.

Details

Skillseed representatives, such as Skillseed staff and/or Community Guides, will give a talk to share about how we co-created the Resilience Trails by tapping on various community and individual assets.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will get to hear directly about the design principles and assets that Skillseed has tapped on to co-create our flagship Resilience Trails programme.

Target Audience: Sec 1 to 4/5, Post-Sec (JC/Poly/ITE)

Runtime: All year round

Fee: Please email for more details

Modality: In-person

Duration of Session: 1 - 2 hours

Programme Capacity: 20 pax and up

Website: https://www.skillseed.sg/resilience-trails

Mode of Registration: Online through website link

Due Date for Registration: Minimum of 3 weeks lead time required

Contact Info: Contact form at https://www.skillseed.sg/contact or email us directly at sheryl@skillseed.sg

Participants are hearing from the guest lecture.

Skillseed’s Mentor Community Guide giving a guest lecture.

Lydia, Skillseed’s Mentor Community Guide, and Sheryl giving a guest lecture to NUS RC4 students

My students said the lecture was truly inspiring and eye-opening. It advances their knowledge and understanding of inequality in Singapore, and provides incredibly valuable inputs for them to practise systems thinking skills.

— Dr Cindy Fu, NUS