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Community Safety and Security Programme Challenge

Tuesday, 06 June 2006

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The Community Safety and Security Programme (CSSP) Challenge IV camp was successfully held from 30 May to 1 June 2006. The event brought together more than 400 youths from various institutions, all of whom took part in activities that related the importance of safety and security in our community, and the roles the youth can play in helping our homeland remain a safe and peaceful society.

This year, the main objective of CSSP Challenge was to inspire and challenge youth to rise up and take ownership in the case of a civil emergency breaking forth in Singapore.

The wholly youth-planned camp was organized and executed by youth volunteers from various institutions, such as Hwa Chong Institution, Serangoon Junior College, Temasek Polytechnic and National University of Singapore. Held at the Old Police Academy (Thomson), participants took part in various activities and games that aimed to hone first-aid, firefighting and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills.

Trained facilitators from various institutions, such as Serangoon Junior College, Hwa Chong Institution and Anderson Junior College, took on the role of youth mentors to the 300 campers from Orchid Park Secondary School, leading them in station games and activities that aimed to not only impart basic emergency skills, but also test the participants’ responsiveness during different stimulated terror threats.

The highlight of the camp was a simulated train bomb attack and subsequent mass passenger detrainment, held at SMRT’s Bishan Depot. Organised by SMRT, the exercise was kept confidential to the participants so as to invoke a sense of realism. The Guest-of-Honour for the event was Assoc Prof Ho Peng Kee, Senior Minister of State for Law & Home Affairs.

Participants of CSSP Challenge IV came from various schools such as:

Hwa Chong Institution
Serangoon Junior College
Temasek Polytechnic
Orchid Park Secondary School
Anderson Junior College

The CSSP Challenge Camp IV was organised by youth volunteers and Heartware Network. Other supporting partners include SMRT, the Singapore Police Force and the Singapore Civil Defence Force.

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Seah Wen Hui

National University of Singapore (NUS), Contributed 484.8 hours, Youth Planning Committee - Training, Programme and Operations Department, NDP2011 Ushers

Heartware helps youth to explore and challenge themselves in areas that they may not be able to go into in schools or daily life.

In NDP11, my role was T&P Scribe during the training phase and time-keeper during operations. It was a new area that I had never tried before in past events. After the past few months of working with the YPC and assuming my roles, I feel that being a time-keeper was not as easy as I thought. It really took great efforts to try to keep a look out to the time and all the activities happening at the same time. However, thanks to all help from all department and guidance, my job was much easier to accomplish.

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