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Keeping Seniors Well-Informed in the Digital Era
The SCWO Ageing Taskforce presents the ‘Keeping Seniors Well-Informed in the Digital Era’ Campaign. Launched at the end of June, Keeping Seniors Well-Informed in the Digital Era will be a 6-weeks long campaign that aims to encourage the seniors in our community to stay digitally informed, and to keep themselves active and safe. SCWO has partnered with students from Republic Polytechnic Diploma in Mass Communications (RPDMC) and Singapore Management University (SMU) to produce the content for this campaign on important topics affecting our seniors such as fake news & scams, and physical & mental wellness. Every Tuesday and Friday, one infographic and one video will be posted on the SCWO’s…
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SCWO Holds 41st AGM
SCWO held its second ever virtual Annual General Meeting on Saturday, 26 June 2021. In attendance were 38 representatives from 24 of our member organisations. The meeting was kickstarted by our Honorary Secretary, Joanna Portilla, who welcomed everyone to the meeting and ensured that there was quorum. Once quorum was ascertained, the time was handed over to our SCWO President, Junie Foo, who then delivered the President’s Address, which highlighted all of SCWO’s activities for the past year. As there were no objections to the annual reports or the past AGM minutes, the meeting was adjourned smoothly and successfully soon after. Read the full President’s Report here.
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SCWO Appoints Lorraine Lim as Deputy CEO, Designate
The Singapore Council of Women’s Organisations is proud to announce the promotion of Lorraine Lim from Head, Direct Services to Deputy CEO, Designate. Lorraine has been with SCWO for 10 years, since 2011. Prior to her being a permanent employee, she had been a Volunteer Counsellor for Star Shelter. Of course, when the Star Shelter Counsellor left, she was very quickly offered the position of Star Shelter Administrator and Counsellor in September 2011. Lorraine was promoted to Manager-Star Shelter in 2015. When asked to take on the added responsibility of managing MSC as well, she did it willingly. In May 2020, her designation was changed to Head-Direct Services to better reflect her…
