Skillseed: Resilience Trails
Skillseed
Resilience Trails
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.
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.
Details
Each Resilience Trails consists of a 15 min pre-trail briefing, followed by a 2.5h learning trail in the Ang Mo Kio neighbourhood. To apply our learning from the trail, participants will be linked up with various social service organisations for volunteering opportunities.
Each Community Guide runs a unique trail and covers different social issues. Skillseed can curate the reflections segment to best suit learning objectives and to help bridge a link to civic capacity or volunteering.
Learning Objectives:
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Hear firsthand from our Community Guide on their journey of empowerment from a beneficiary to an active volunteer
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Contrast our initial assumptions & perceptions with newly gained perspectives of the community
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Observe and identify strengths of the individual, community and environment, and how they have created value to further develop the community for themselves
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Learn about social mobility and inequality in an engaging and respectful manner
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Apply their learning from the trails to engage with the community through volunteering opportunities
Target Audience: Sec 1 to 4/5, Post-Sec (JC/Poly/ITE)
Runtime: All year round
Programme Fee: Please email for more details
Modality: In-person
Duration of Session: 5 hours - please note that the Resilience Trails and volunteering segments can be conducted on separate days (i.e. can be 3h on one day for the trail and 2h another day for volunteering).
Programme Capacity: 10-15 per trail, inclusive of chaperones
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
Our Community Guide, Janet, sharing about public attitudes towards persons
with disabilities“I get to learn more about the hardships people go through and heartwarming stories that people do for the community.” - Secondary School Participant