OUR MILESTONES
We began as a bunch of youth wanting to do something for our community in Geylang. What started as a hang-out centre in a tiny second storey office of a shophouse, quickly evolved into a full weekly programme providing free food, tuition and intervention for low-income kids and teens, as well as numerous social justice projects such as Project Love & The Giving Tree.
In 2018, we shifted our focus to initiatives aimed at forwarding equity and creating a culture of youth-led service to others both within and outside of our organisation.
2003
COW is established.
2003 - 2009
DetonaXion HQ @
Geylang Lorong 1
Read about COW’s Teens & Youth Hang-Out Center here.
Makan House
Free Tuition & Group Study
Home Visitations with Pick-up / Drop-off
RikRats Soccer Club
Bi-annual Children’s Day Camps
Music & Creative Arts School
2005
Launch of Project Love
First Project Love Local x AWWA
2005 - 2009
Project Love mobilises volunteers & does multiple giveaways each year:
Back-To-School Packs partially sponsored by Schwan-Stabilo
CNY, Hari Raya, Deepavali, Christmas
2006
COW Overseas Mission x Bluemountain Humanitarian Organisation, Riau, Indonesia.
Read here.
2010 - 2017
COW takes an organization hiatus.
Project Love continues among volunteers.
2016 - 2017
COW works on our relaunch:
Research into changing service needs in Singapore.
Community surveys conducted in Jalan Besar, Kallang and Aljunied.
2018
COW RELAUNCH
COW collaborates with Into The Grey to create Gen Z and Millennial targeted social justice panels.
First COW x ITG Panel: From Empathy to Action with Dr. Goh Wei Leong (Founder of HealthServe, Straits Times’ Singaporean of the Year 2017)
Watch clips and read about the panel here.
COW x ITG Call-To-Action: Migrant Workers Xmas Giveaway
Event included an eduction session for volunteers on the struggles faced by low-wage migrant workers in Singapore.
2019
COW x ITG Panel: The Inequalities of COVID-19 with Christopher Romine, Jean Carlos Arce Cabrera, Estella Low & Charmaine J. Nah
Watch clips and read about the panel here.
COW Overseas Mission x Center of Hope, Mozambique. Clothes aid collection & Sponsored gifts for 27 orphans.
2020
First Youth-led Blood Donation Drive.
COW x ItsRainingRaincoats Kindness for our Migrant Friends
Care packages for 100 workers living in factory-converted dormitories.
Raised: $1210 in less than 24h.
Original target: $500.
JUN - NOV 2020
Youth-led Initiatives take off
Read their Inspiring Stories:
Be Nice by Seah Si Yang
Online Tutoring Programme by Valerie Tan
Conversations with Migrant Friends by Regina Loo, Mah Wee Yi & Adika Sen
DEC 2020
Launch of The Giving Tree
COW’s The Giving Tree 2020 x ItsRainingRaincoats
Raised: $2020 for 200 Christmas gift packs for migrants worker friends.
2021
Youth-led Blood Donation Drive
FDW FTW
Online classes in communication, makeup. and HIIT.
20 foreign domestic helpers attended.
50 care packages were given away to attendees and their friends.
Event included a pre-event cultural awareness class for volunteers.
COW x Fei Yue Greeting cards for Senior Citizens