Touching Lives

Owen Tan, 30, takes Mr Leong Kong Heng (blue shirt), 89, and Madam Chua Mue Seah, 93, on e-trishaw rides, and learns about their personal stories and experiences while chatting with them.

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Strengthening Families and Communities

Temasek Foundation Moving Generations

The programme aims to actively involve youth in addressing social isolation among seniors. Young people are trained to pilot e-trishaws, enabling them to take seniors on rides along Park Connector Network routes and in neighbourhoods. They are also equipped with skills to communicate with the seniors with empathy. During the rides, the younger generation have the opportunity to chat and bond with the seniors who come from selected Senior Activity Centres and nursing homes. Since 2008, more than 300 young people, aged between 16 and 35 years old, have been trained to pilot e-trishaws and more than 4,000 e-trishaw rides have been organised.

Raeka Ee, 17, is among 17 Singapore Sports School students who received the EW Barker Scholarship for exemplary young athletes.

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EW Barker Scholarship under the EW Barker Endowment

The scholarship, introduced last year, aims to inspire exemplary young athlete students to continue to pursue sports. Scholarship recipients receive full subsidies of their school fees for two years and are expected to spearhead community service work. Seventeen students from the Singapore Sports School (SSP) received the scholarship last year. Among them is Raeka Ee, a survivor of the deadly 2015 Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, earthquake, that claimed the lives of four of her classmates on that trip. Raeka has gone on to become the SSP’s netball captain.

Lim Chien Hui, 17, (in red) and Luo Rong Rong, 17, sorted and analysed artefacts from 14^th and 15^th century Singapore as part of an archaeology programme by Temasek Foundation and ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute.

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Deepening Appreciation of Our Shared Heritage

Temasek History Research Centre's Archaeology Programme for Students

Students from secondary schools and junior colleges learned about the fundamentals of archaeology through an educational programme by Temasek Foundation and ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. The students were tasked with analysing and classifying 14^th and 15^th century artefacts found in Singapore. Through the process, they picked up observation and deduction skills and learned more about the history of Singapore. These hands-on sessions were complemented by lectures conducted by archaeology practitioners, visits to museums and workshops for teachers.

Interfaith leaders and practitioners installed a clean water treatment system and water point in Baseco, Manila, to provide the people there with better access to safe drinking water.

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Temasek Foundation Faiths @ Work Interfaith Humanitarian Programme

The people of Baseco, Manila, in the Philippines, lack access to amenities such as drinking water.

To improve the situation, a group of 20 interfaith leaders and practitioners from nine Southeast Asian countries embarked on a project to install a clean water treatment system and water point in the city. The project was part of a humanitarian aid training programme that the interfaith leaders and practitioners attended for 10 days. The programme comprised seminar-based training sessions, which covered various aspects of humanitarian aid and disaster management.

Youths explored the Sungei Buloh Wetlands Reserve and learned how mangrove swamps contribute to carbon sequestration.

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STEP Environment Camp 2019

Some 92 youth leaders and budding environmental enthusiasts from 14 Asian countries attended a six-day camp in Singapore that included hands-on workshops and field trips, focused on themes such as scientific inquiry and field ecology with an emphasis on environmental stewardship. The participants visited Windsor Nature Park, Sungei Buloh Wetlands Reserve and St. John's Island.

Mongolian university trainers tap on the Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate framework to equip students with engineering fundamentals to solve real world challenges.

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Enhancing Capability and Capacity Regionally

Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate (CDIO) Programme in Mongolia

Temasek Foundation supports a "train the trainer" programme in Mongolia that aims to equip university educators with the skills to nurture the next generation engineers in the country. The educators are trained to incorporate the CDIO education framework, that emphasises engineering fundamentals in the context of real world environments, into curriculum and experiential learning activities. Since 2015, 160 educators from the Mongolia University of Life Sciences, the Mongolia University of Science and Technology and the National University of Mongolia have attended workshops on the CDIO framework. The CDIO methodology has been introduced in six state universities in Mongolia.

Eric Chen, a technician from Sophie's BioNutrients, operates machines that use a fermentation system to produce a type of plant-based protein flour which is an alternative to meat.

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Enhancing Sustainable Food Sources

Sustainable Protein made from Microalgae

Temasek Foundation funded a project by vegan food company, Sophie's BioNutrients, to produce a type of protein made from microalgae that is fermented. The protein can be harvested in three days and has a far smaller carbon footprint compared to beef production. The project beat more than 300 applicants from over 50 countries to win The Liveability Challenge 2020, an annual competition which provides funding to commercialise innovative solutions aimed at improving liveability.

Researchers from Temasek Polytechnic aim to cultivate vegetables using hydrogel, which allows crops to be grown without soil.

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Supporting Research and Development

Tasty Leafy Vegetables Grown from Soilless Cultivation

Quality topsoil is limited in Singapore but is essential to grow tasty vegetables. To find a solution to this, a group of researchers from Temasek Polytechnic are developing a novel system that allows farmers to grow vegetables using a hydrogel which incorporates compatible microbes and hydroponic nutrient solution. The project, funded by Temasek Foundation, is ongoing. The hydrogel system, if proven effective, can be used by local farms as a solution for soilless cultivation, which would have significant implications for the cultivation of crops in infertile soil conditions.

Guided tours of the dragonfly habitat in Jurong Lake Gardens showcase the types of dragonflies found in Singapore.

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Promoting Sustainability

Dragonfly Habitat for Biodiversity and Mosquito Control

Temasek Foundation partnered the National Parks Board to develop a flagship dragonfly habitat at the Neram Streams in Jurong Lake Gardens. The project will help researchers determine habitat factors that are necessary to maximise dragonfly diversity and improve species conservation. Researchers will also investigate the efficacy of using dragonflies as a natural control of midges and mosquitoes in an urban environment. Findings from this study could be used to design guidelines to develop other dragonfly habitats.

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Strengthening Families and Communities

Deepening Appreciation of Our Shared Heritage

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Enhancing Capability and Capacity Regionally

Advancing Science and Nature for a Sustainable World

Enhancing Sustainable Food Sources

Supporting Research and Development

Promoting Sustainability

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