UWCSEA Foundation

The UWCSEA Foundation supports the College in its ambition to become a leader in Education for Sustainable Development. Funding raised through the Foundation has particularly strengthened the development of our Environmental Sustainability initiatives over over the last 5 years. The appointment of Environmental Stewardship Co-ordinators within the College was made possible through a generous donation to the Foundation and this has allowed a wide variety of projects to flourish and link to the rest of the Learning programme. Many of these also supported through the Foundation are outlined below.

The Kirtida and Bharat Mekani Environmental Sustainability Fund has specifically supported Biodiversity projects in the College. Kirtida is a long-standing supporter of the College and a President's Award winner for her contribution to Environmental conservation in Singapore. At UWCSEA her family's find has supported:

• The UWCSEA Rainforest Restoration Project allowing infrastructure development and outreach work so that is now an integrated part of the curriculum and service programme on both campuses.
• The Biodiversity Conservation and Education Project which is developing educational materials for the campus on local Biodiversity heritage and Biomimicry. Expect to see signage on campus and stories around this soon.

Solar for Dover is a Foundation -supported student initiative. Due to the large infrastructure costs the Foundation sought innovative funding through a highly popular sponsorship scheme. It is hoped that this might be replicated at East Campus also. You can read more about the project on our Building and operations page.

Incredible Edible is a Dover Gardening Project supported by the Foundations' Annual Fund that teaches food growing though twice weekly gardening as part of the Service Programme. The group regularly sell their produce at UWCSEA events to offset running costs.

The Budden Composting Initiative (see story via picture below) started as a competition to attract young innovators needing funds to start projects and has now become a major part of our Environmental Stewardship programme, attracting interest from schools and universities across Singapore. Read more on our Academics Page.

A Creative Re-use Centre at East was funded through gifts to the Annual Fund and serves to offer practical opportunities for the infants to engage with the Reggio Emilia - inspired curriculum as well as contributing to learning for a zero-waste culture from an early age.

Stories on Waste

A generous gift to the Foundation from Marine Engineering firm Van Oord allowed us to develop an exciting pilot Marine Conservation Summer School based in the IDEAS Hub on Dover Campus. We are very lucky to have several alumni experts helping us with this project.