We are:
ember/ace
ember/ace is a student-initiated CAS Project within ACS (Independent).
Together, we aim to improve the wellbeing and sense of purpose of seniors through intergenerational bonding. We hope to empower seniors with opportunities to reignite their passions and share what they are best at with future generations.
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ember/ace currently runs three programmes with three different organisations - NTUC Health, Lions Befrienders (LB) and Society for the Aged Sick (SAS).
NTUC HEALTH
NTUC Health Co-operative Limited (NTUC Health) is an NTUC social enterprise that provides a comprehensive and integrated suite of quality and affordable health and eldercare services to meet the growing needs of families and their dependents
Our volunteers conduct skill-exchange programmes, where seniors engage with our youth volunteers and teach them various skills (eg. speaking dialect, arts and craft, playing mahjong). We also have an online digital literacy programme, where the volunteers taught seniors how to use different apps such as Zoom, Lazada, Health Hub and Instagram.
LIONS BEFRIENDERS
LB focuses on befriending and caring for seniors in order for them to age in place in the community. They strive to address the varied needs of seniors by adopting a senior-centric approach in its eldercare services, via a spectrum of integrated eldercare service from preventive to intervention through comprehensive programmes, including social, emotional, mental and physical, to improve quality of life.
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Our volunteers carried out a befriending programme with the seniors, where we played online games such as Zoom pictionary with the seniors and chatted with them about their lives, forming meaningful connections along the way.
SOCIETY FOR THE AGED SICK
Society for the Aged Sick (SAS) is a not-for-profit nursing home that provides residential and respite care services to people in need of daily skilled nursing care and/or assistance in activities of daily living, and who cannot be cared for at home, particularly the less privileged.
With SAS’s existing Fulfill-A-Dish programme where SAS enables seniors to cook their own traditional recipes with the aid of social workers, ember/ace volunteers are involved in collating and compiling all these recipes into a digital cookbook for seniors to keep as a memento and to share an online version with youths all around Singapore. The cookbook also serves as an oral history project, where each senior involved is interviewed about their life and heritage to pass on valuable stories and knowledge about life in Singapore in the past.