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CDAC relunctantly agrees to help needy singaporeans as election draws near

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CDAC to sharpen focus to help 67,000 low-income Singaporeans
By Hetty Musfirah Abdul Khamid, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 19 December 2009 1909 hrs

SINGAPORE: The Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC) will sharpen its focus so that it can better help needy Singaporeans improve their lives.

The self-help group said on Saturday that it will set aside S$23 million next year to help 67,000 students, workers and their families.

On Saturday morning, 9,500 needy students got ready for school with some help from CDAC. They were each given a S$115 school-ready pack, which includes transport vouchers and stationery.

One of the recipients, Wan Sheng Yong, 11, said: "I feel very happy getting these things. I can save up without buying these things."

More people, including young job-seekers, have turned to CDAC for help to ride out the recession. This year, it has helped 65,500 low-income Singaporeans – an increase of 20 per cent, compared to 2008.

From next year, CDAC said its help schemes will be more targeted.

Minister in the Prime Minister's Office Lim Swee Say, who is also chairman of the CDAC Board of Directors, said: "We will not confine ourselves to just helping them to survive. We will step up our efforts... to help them achieve upward social mobility for the future."

Manpower Minister and chairman of CDAC Education Committee, Gan Kim Yong, said: "Earlier on, our focus was on helping students to pass their exams so that they can progress in their education. We should not just be satisfied with just passing; we have to look at ways to help these students achieve excellence."

The organisation will recruit more volunteers next year to enhance its community outreach and it intends to set up three more CDAC centres by 2012.
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I have cancelled my $1 donation ( compulsory at that time), when people started murmuring that they never asked them, and was allowed to opt out.
 
if 67,000 people marched down the Istana or Parliament House...

PAP will be gone in no time..:D
 
I have cancelled my $1 donation ( compulsory at that time), when people started murmuring that they never asked them, and was allowed to opt out.

you are really cheapskate....$1 also want to save? :D
 
I suspect many have no clue that CDAC is a political instrument. It falls in the same space as PA, the grassroots organisation, CASE, NTUC etc. The people who run it are PAP MPs. It is not an independent org.

You guys should join a grassroots org and see how the octopus works.

The role of looking after Singaporeans who are disabled, unfortunate, unemployed or facing social issues should fall on a Govt Ministry and on the Govt squarely. Why must it fall on a organisation that is race based. Do Chinese have 5 legs, while the Indians walk with their hands and the Malays have eyes behind their back. Why can't they be treated the same as Singaporeans.
 
I suspect many have no clue that CDAC is a political instrument. It falls in the same space as PA, the grassroots organisation, CASE, NTUC etc. The people who run it are PAP MPs. It is not an independent org.

You guys should join a grassroots org and see how the octopus works.

The role of looking after Singaporeans who are disabled, unfortunate, unemployed or facing social issues should fall on a Govt Ministry and on the Govt squarely. Why must it fall on a organisation that is race based. Do Chinese have 5 legs, while the Indians walk with their hands and the Malays have eyes behind their back. Why can't they be treated the same as Singaporeans.

me thinks sgp gov. is not fulfilling it's obligations as a gov...

i wonder what they teach at the Kennedy's school of public administration.
 
you are really cheapskate....$1 also want to save? :D

I rather give to a deserving beggar, with that $1 a month for every year and if I work 30 years, it would be $360 of my blood , sweat & tears money; not knowing who it will enrich in the process. $1 is a small matter, giving to something I don't believe is something else.

The SEE D anc C logo looks eaxctly like poncho villa the bandit...http://www.cdac.org.sg/cos/o.x?c=/cdac_corp/section

only different is, it does not have bullets strung across the shoulders & holding two psitolas...:D

Nyet!, I am not giving, for in the first place, we were shafted down our throats & forced to donate...:mad:
 
$25million for 67,000 people, means $371 each.

Goh Meng Seng
 
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"How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre, food court or restaurant?"
 
I suspect many have no clue that CDAC is a political instrument. It falls in the same space as PA, the grassroots organisation, CASE, NTUC etc. The people who run it are PAP MPs. It is not an independent org.

You guys should join a grassroots org and see how the octopus works.

The role of looking after Singaporeans who are disabled, unfortunate, unemployed or facing social issues should fall on a Govt Ministry and on the Govt squarely. Why must it fall on a organisation that is race based. Do Chinese have 5 legs, while the Indians walk with their hands and the Malays have eyes behind their back. Why can't they be treated the same as Singaporeans.

u can explain all these to these ppl all you want, but in the end, these guys wont understand one bit....
 
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