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Hands-on at the SAMH Youth Alive festival with over 25 community partners, about 500 visitors and Guest of Honour Member of Parliament Alvin Tan!

On 16 November 2024, we joined the SAMH annual youth event - a celebration of creativity, mental health awareness, and community connections organised by the Singapore Association of Mental Health (SAMH). During the festival, we showcased how we repurpose school uniforms into useful items for learning and teaching and highlighted that our work is much more than only repurposing: it is about inspiring youth and lifelong learnings to adopt sustainable habits while giving a second life to materials that would otherwise go to waste.

MP Alvin Tan visited our booth and we engaged him in a hands-on sustainability activity: he sewed button eyes on our mascot owl plushie, made of pre-loved school uniforms. Without doubt: we all need a clear vision and plan to create a sustainable future.

The SAMH Youth Alive 2024 festival was a powerful reminder that mental health and sustainability go hand in hand. When we care for the planet, we create healthier, more supportive environments for ourselves and future generations. Grateful to SAMH for our ongoing collaboration as we aim to enage clients from SAMH into our work and offer green job opportunities.

It was great to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival at Bedok Park Connector and be part of the community event, organised by Fengshan Rosewood and Fengshan Maple Residents' Network.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is rich in symbolism and it’s the time to unite, connect families and cherish traditions.  Our booth was filled withMid-Autumn symbols and key characters, like the Jade Rabbit and the Moon Goddess Chang’e!

We also designed a special Mid-Autumn Festival bag made of repurposed school uniforms featuring the full moon and lanterns.

We are grateful to the many Community Volunteers who organised this beautiful evening, which brought together over 800 visitors, amongst them MP Cheryl Chan who visited our booth. 

On 29 September, we celebrated  teachers and staff  for their passion, efforts and dedication to creating welcoming and inspiring learning environments in schools.

Teachers are role models in students’ lives and champions of a sustainable future!

Just like our teacher owl and baby owls made from pre-loved school uniforms, you find creative ways to nurture growth and inspire sustainability in your classrooms.

Thank you for guiding students to be thoughtful stewards of the planet and help shape a brighter, greener future for all of us!

We look forward to joining you on the sustainability journey in your schools!

Go Green SG is a whole-of-nation movement to rally the community to take collective action towards a sustainable future for Singapore. It comprises a series of sustainability-related events and activities in July organised by our People, Public and Private (3P) partners. As community partners, we joined this initiative last year and again this year with several activities to show our strong commitment to the SG Green Plan.

This year we created a holistic programme, which involved a mobile exhibition and several activities on the topic of sustainable textiles, textile repurposing and environmental impact. The mobile exhibition is called “Circularity in Action: School Uniforms for a Greener Singapore”. It talks about the journey of a school uniforms in Singapore, from the harvesting of cotton and extraction of raw materials to the production, shipment, transportation, and distribution. It also showcases the environmental impact of a school uniform and how to reduce it by highlighting the potential of repurposing uniforms – an important steps towards closing the loop in a circular economy. By emphasising these sustainability issues of the textile industry, the exhibition seeks to inspire changes in norms and mindsets towards circularity and sustainable consumption among students and parents.

The content was created in collaboration with 17 Teachers Trainees from the National Institute of Education (NIE), while it was designed by 6 students from ITE Higher Nitec in Visual Merchandising. 

Complementing the exhibition, we organised sustainability workshops with students and parents for a more hands-on experience. At Tampines Meridian Junior College. we started a Value-In-Action Programme with around 50 J1 students where they'll be making tote bags out of pre-loved uniforms. At River Valley Primary School, students designed fun-filled activities such as Kahoot quizzes and a What's-in-the-box touch and feel activity. At Anglo-Chinese School (Primary), we organised an owl-making workshop where students and parents worked together in creating stuffed owls out of pre-loved uniforms. At National Junior College, students participated in a sustainability workshop where they made pouches out of their pre-loved  uniforms. Learn more about these activities here!

As part of Go Green SG activities, we also published the results to our nationwide surveys which are available here! 

Melanie Oliveiro, Senior Producer / Presenter, CNA938, interviewed us about our plans to set up a local sustainable system where school uniforms can be reused, repurposed and recycled. This was a great opportunity for us to share about our work with other communities and organisations on circular collaboration projects. 

We discussed about our efforts in setting up The Circular Classroom, partnering with schools  on environmental education programmes for students, staff and parents, and creating innovative items out of pre-loved uniforms. We shared about our educational outreach in the communities and our collaboration with the PlayPan initiative at Peace Centre. 

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