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Mission: Hire Possible

Ready to unlock the skills, mindsets and opportunities for tomorrow?

Then, come and join Mission: Hire Possible, where participants will get the opportunity to become career-ready for the future by getting the chance to connect with current professionals.

Expect:
✅ A career human library featuring professionals from 8 industries
✅ A panel discussion featuring Melvin Yong, Herjeet Singh and Kohe Hassan

Plus!
📸 Free corporate headshots
🍽️ Networking lunch

🔴 15 November 25
🔵10:00am - 2.00pm (light breakfast and lunch will be provided)
🗺️ Level 4 Blisshouse, Radin Mas CC
💵 FOC

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International Survivors of Suicide (ISOS) Loss Day

International Survivors of Suicide (ISOS) Loss Day brings together people around the world, who have lost a significant other to suicide, within their local communities to share understanding and hope.

Samaritans of Singapore hopes to offer participants a safe space to meet others who share the lived experience. This safe space is an opportunity for attendees to meet others who share their pain, to remember their departed loved ones, and to grieve and seek comfort together.

🔴 22 November 25
🔵 9:00am-1.00pm
🗺️ Connection One Tower 2 #03-20, 169 Jalan Bukit Merah, Singapore 150169
💵 FOC

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Climate Fresk: Act for Cl!mate

Ever wondered how the seemingly disconnected causes of climate change could have such a massive impact on our current world?

Come and find out at Climate Fresk, a powerful science-based workshop that uses a 42-card game that unpacks the causes and consequences of climate change. Using the card game, participants will have the opportunity to piece together the various links that tell the full story.

Guided by trained facilitators, this fun and hands-on workshop makes use of collective intelligence to encourage deep discussions that will make participants feel more informed and empowered to take action.

Suitable for anyone aged 14+, participants do not require a background in sustainability, but previous attendees already working in sustainability often say they learn something new.

🔴Multiple dates
🔵Depends on session
🗺️ Multiple locations
💵 FOC

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Youth Xperience : Guided Bouldering (3 Lessons) by Brahm Centre

Youth Xperience brings together young people aged 12–18 to learn bouldering in a safe, fun, and guided environment 🧗Participants will build climbing skills, confidence, and teamwork while connecting with peers💪🏻

This program promotes youth development, confidence building, and active lifestyle, giving participants an opportunity to grow, challenge themselves, and form supportive peer connections🤝

🔴
- Session 1: 5 Dec 25, Fri
- Session 2: 12 Dec 25, Fri
- Session 3: 19 Dec 25, Fri
🔵 2pm-3.30pm
🗺 Sembawang Shopping Centre, 604 Sembawang Rd, #B1-22/23, S( 758459)

💵 Fee (Non-Refundable): $36 for 3 sessions (Only $12/session – discounted from original cost of $45/session)

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Merlion Project: Stories of Resilience🌸

Thirty years ago, resources for special needs were scarce in Singapore. Ms Selina Tan took it upon herself to learn. She borrowed books from the library, attended programmes in Melbourne, and even resigned from her job to focus on her son Kenny’s growth💪🏻

Through years of therapy, homeschooling and community support, Kenny has grown and . he now works at a gym as a cleaner under his father’s supervision and creates art sold at the Art Faculty shop in Enabling Village🎨

Join them for an honest and heartfelt sharing as Selina reflects on what resilience means in caregiving and family, and how compassion and community can transform challenges into hope✨

🔴 22 Nov 2025, Saturday
🔵 3.00pm - 5.00pm
🗺️ Caregivers’ Pod, Enabling Village (20 Lengkok Bahru, Singapore 159053)
💵 FOC

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Teh Tarik with Dad by BapaHebat SG

BapaHebat SG is organising the Teh Tarik with Dads Talk Series to show how love, faith, and hope can empower fathers and families to face challenging times💪🏻

Participants will hear from two fathers as they share their heartfelt stories of love, faith and resilience🥰

🔴 29 Nov 25, Saturday
🔵 2:30pm - 5pm
🗺️ The Anvil Room, The Foundry, 11 Prinsep Link, S(187949)
💵FOC

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IDEVAW 2025 - Strength in Solidarity

Nearly 1 in 3 or 30% of women has been subjected to some form of gender-based violence, accordingly to an analysis across 161 countries and areas.

IDEVAW is the United Nations’ day to encourage action to eliminate violence against women and girls. The fight to end violence against women is local and it needs to start within our communities, our courts, and our homes🏡

Organised by AWARE, Strength in Solidarity is a conference to transform this global mandate into local action. It is a platform to influence policymakers, showcase fresh research and innovations in hopes of fostering the collaborations needed for true systemic change🤝

This is more than a conference; it's a catalyst💪🏻

🔴 24 Nov 25, Monday
🔵 9:00am - 5:30pm
🗺️ Chui Huay Lim Club #04-01, 190 Keng Lee Road, S(308409)
💵$150
Discount Available‼️Use discount code OPENJIO55 to get tickets at $55)

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🎂Celebrate with them at Kampung HYC Playground🎂

To commemorate their 6th anniversary, Tzu Chi Humanistic Youth Centre is transforming their grounds into a community where participants can freely explore, create and rediscover the freedom of play!

There is no pressure or expectation. All participants can bring their creativity to this welcoming space where everyone belongs ✨

What’s happening?
🍰 A curated cake picnic from local bakers (limited slots at $15/pax)
🎸Live acoustic performance by Yishun Pond Park
🎲Lots of games—from nostalgic ones to social impact driven cards
🎁Mystery surprises awaiting!

🔴 29 Nov 25 , Saturday
🔵 12pm- 2pm
🗺️ Tzu Chi Humanistic Youth Centre
💵 FOC

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Caregivers-to-Caregivers Education Programme (Mental Health) (C2C-MH)

Do you have a family member experiencing mental health challenges or dementia, but unsure or feeling unprepared on how to best care for them? 🥹

Mindfull Community will be conducting its signature Caregivers-to-Caregivers Education Programme (Mental Health), designed for Malay-speaking caregivers of loved ones with mental health challenges and/or dementia. Organised in collaboration with Perdaus, this programme is fully subsidised and conducted in Malay for caregivers in need🤝

🔴 Multiple Sessions
🔵 10am - 12.30pm
🗺️ Imad Perdaus, 125 Bedok North Rd, #01-115, SG(460125)
💵FOC

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AWDA Return and Hope

The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People commemorates the ongoing struggle for Palestinian rights and the universal human longing for home, belonging and justice💪🏻

Hosted by Echoes of Gaza in collaboration with Lepak Conversations and the Asia Pacific Women’s Coalition for Al-Quds and Palestine, AWDA invites participants to explore the Right of Return through stories, law, and lived experience.

Participants can expect to:
🌿Hear personal stories of displacement, resilience, and connection
🏡Explore heritage, land, and living memory as evidence of continuity
🌏Learn how local and regional solidarity can become meaningful action

🔴 29 Nov 25, Saturday
🔵 8pm-10pm
🗺️ Google Meet
💵FOC

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The Storyteller Series: Up Close with Prof. (Dr) Roy Chan

In commemoration of World AIDS day, Proud Spaces has invited Prof. (Dr) Roy Chan, founding President of Action for Aids (Singapore) for their next Storyteller Series with Singapore Queer Memory Project.

This session will take participants back to the early years of HIV/AIDS awareness: the efforts to organise, the pushback and stigma, and the crucial care work led by the LGBT communities in supporting their peers💕

Let’s come together and work towards a more inclusive future, where HIV/AIDS patients are able to talk freely about their condition and experiences✨

🔴 4 Dec 25, Thursday
🔵 7pm-9pm
🗺️ Proud Spaces SG, 243 Alexandra Road #05-03
💵FOC

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A Call to Persons with Lived Experience

How can life writing build solidarity among persons with lived experiences of mental health issues in Singapore?🧐

Drawing from reconstructed fragments of an unnamed asylum inmate in colonial Singapore, Chan Li Shan argues that speaking, sharing, and listening to lived experience stories are not merely personal acts, but acts of citizenship💪🏻

She argues that life writing can challenge dominant biomedical frameworks, legitimise lived experience as knowledge, and re-politicise Singapore’s mental health landscape✨

🔴 7 Dec 25, Sunday
🔵 4pm
🗺️ Zoom
💵 FOC

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