About Us
Friends of Children (FoC), is a Regular Services Project (RSP) under the Welfare Services Club (WSC) in Nanyang Technological Unversity, NTU. We are a group of volunteers who work mainly with the underprivileged and needy children and pre-teens, age between 4-16 years old. Our beneficiaries come from various family centres and students care centres across Singapore. We are currently working with 8 different centres, offering a total of 13 different programmes to help these children.
Our programmes focus mainly on 2 aspects, academic coaching and character building.
Mentoring
Character Building
Volunteers who are under these programmes will be actively involved in the planning and carrying out of various life-skills activities for the children.
These programmes usually revolve around a different theme for each semester. The main objectives of these activities are to help develop the child to pick up important life-skills such as confidence in self, teamwork and public speaking.
Our programmes focus mainly on 2 aspects, academic coaching and character building.
Mentoring
- Academic Mentoring
- Volunteers will be attached to one to two children over the course of a year to mentor the child in his weaker academic subjects.
- During the weekly sessions, the mentors will help the mentee in his homework where he experiences difficulty in. The mentors will at times needs to explain and guide the child using different methods, such as visual aids to let the mentee better understand the concepts taught.
- The mentor will also source for additional academic help for the mentee through additional practices such as assessment books and practice papers.
- Character Building
- Due to the varying background of our children, such as mild autism and ADHD, volunteers are actively involved in the development of the child in terms of his behaviour and emotional aspect.
- During the weekly sessions, in additional to the academic mentoring or character building, the volunteers will also monitor the child's participation and interaction with them. This will let the volunteers and centres' have a better understanding and are able to help the children better.
Character Building
Volunteers who are under these programmes will be actively involved in the planning and carrying out of various life-skills activities for the children.
These programmes usually revolve around a different theme for each semester. The main objectives of these activities are to help develop the child to pick up important life-skills such as confidence in self, teamwork and public speaking.