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Starting right means starting young. When I was in Secondary 4, aged 15, I attended the Outward Bound Singapore ( OBS ) course on Pulau Ubin. For 17 days my coursemates and I were stretched to our limits, learnt to work together, and mastered new skills like crossing this rope bridge. It was a significant growing up experience for me.
Nowadays, OBS courses are shorter. But they continue to help young people to build confidence, resilience, and teamwork, skills and attitudes critical if Singapore is to thrive and prosper.
That is why Heng Swee Keat's #SGBudget2016 speech yesterday included building a new OBS campus on Coney Island, so more youths can benefit from an Outward Bound experience.
The Budget also had other items to help our young grow up to be the best they can be:
We will make First Step grants ($3,000) into the Child Development Account of each eligible Singaporean child, to help pay for their healthcare and childcare.
A new initiative, called KidSTART, will give children whose parents need more support a good start in life.
We will also help families with young children living in rental housing own a home again, under the Fresh Start Housing Scheme.
More details at bit.Iy/1MFT7tY
You can view Swee Keat’s full speech here: http://bit.Iy/1VLZfrH
- LHL
(Photo courtesy of National Archives of Singapore)
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Starting right means starting young. When I was in Secondary 4, aged 15, I attended the Outward Bound Singapore ( OBS ) course on Pulau Ubin. For 17 days my coursemates and I were stretched to our limits, learnt to work together, and mastered new skills like crossing this rope bridge. It was a significant growing up experience for me.
Nowadays, OBS courses are shorter. But they continue to help young people to build confidence, resilience, and teamwork, skills and attitudes critical if Singapore is to thrive and prosper.
That is why Heng Swee Keat's #SGBudget2016 speech yesterday included building a new OBS campus on Coney Island, so more youths can benefit from an Outward Bound experience.
The Budget also had other items to help our young grow up to be the best they can be:
We will make First Step grants ($3,000) into the Child Development Account of each eligible Singaporean child, to help pay for their healthcare and childcare.
A new initiative, called KidSTART, will give children whose parents need more support a good start in life.
We will also help families with young children living in rental housing own a home again, under the Fresh Start Housing Scheme.
More details at bit.Iy/1MFT7tY
You can view Swee Keat’s full speech here: http://bit.Iy/1VLZfrH
- LHL
(Photo courtesy of National Archives of Singapore)
