Lil Seth at Project Refresh. Erm.. Refreshing his tummy. LOL.
While my wife and I are discussing if we should upgrade our place to a condo or even landed property, we might think that this is a common topic that people are talking about in Singapore. However, we may not know that there are still many individuals that cannot even afford a roof above their head.
We are considered lucky that we started working early and we managed to get our what seems almost “free” place to stay at an early age thanks to our CPF. Truth is the house is mostly paid for using our CPF. The only thing that we fork out cash for was our renovation and it’s a choice we had to live simply without much renovation during that time. Being a young couple with other priorities, we really did not spend too much on our renovation.
That being said, the less fortunate ones for whatever reasons are still being taken care of with affordable rental flats. Albeit it’s affordable, it is not exactly the most comfortable thing to do living in a rental flat which often are tiny and cramped.
Sadly, most of these rental flats are occupied by elderlies who have multiple health problem.
While my wife and I are discussing if we should upgrade our place to a condo or even landed property, we might think that this is a common topic that people are talking about in Singapore. However, we may not know that there are still many individuals that cannot even afford a roof above their head.
We are considered lucky that we started working early and we managed to get our what seems almost “free” place to stay at an early age thanks to our CPF. Truth is the house is mostly paid for using our CPF. The only thing that we fork out cash for was our renovation and it’s a choice we had to live simply without much renovation during that time. Being a young couple with other priorities, we really did not spend too much on our renovation.
That being said, the less fortunate ones for whatever reasons are still being taken care of with affordable rental flats. Albeit it’s affordable, it is not exactly the most comfortable thing to do living in a rental flat which often are tiny and cramped.
Sadly, most of these rental flats are occupied by elderlies who have multiple health problem.
Thankfully, Singapore is a place full of people who are willing to lend a helping hand. Young NTUC actually initiated a program back in 2016 known as Project Refresh. If you follow this space closely, you will remember that this is not the very 1st time I mentioned this.
The objective of Project Refresh is to improve the living condition of elderlies staying in rental units through a series of refurbishment works including painting, cleaning, bed bug fumigation and decluttering.
Since 2017, Young NTUC has partnered with the North East Community Development Council (CDC) to aggregate stakeholders within the North East District. This includes GRCs/SMCs, SACs, schools and corporations who provide essential goods and services such as furniture, appliances, pest control services, as well as cleaning and painting equipment and supplies.
To date, Project Refresh has cleaned up 175 rental units over five sessions, with the help of 1,250 volunteers.
Over the years, Project Refresh has evolved to improve our residents’ quality of lives. The latest is a partnership with the National Environment Agency (NEA) to launch the “Switch and Save – Use LED” @ North East” programme for the first time; where all households living in one- and two-room public housing flats in the North East District will be offered $25 vouchers to buy LED lights. At the same time, North East CDC has also partnered IMDA to offer Digital TV (DTV) Starter Kits for households to switch to DTV.
I know people would probably say that Singapore's government very wayang when it comes to such thing. Do you know that we actually have a campaign set up knows as the "Climate Action"? I know, this is the part that you guys will probably go, "Standard lah Singapore. Everything also want to campaign. Even moving into train also must campaign."
As silly as it sounds but do you know why? It's simply because we ourselves as individuals are not doing it! For example, if you were to wash your own plates after dinner, does you mum need to nag remind you all the time? The answer is obvious.
I digress.
Truth is such campaigns do not just help the people but also mother earth.
You most likely wouldn't know but, Singapore’s total household electricity consumption has gone up by about 17 per cent in the last decade due to a growing population. As electricity is largely produced by the burning of fossil fuels, lowering our electricity consumption can help reduce the environmental impact of resource mining and emissions produced to generate electricity. The Household Energy Consumption Study conducted by NEA in 2017 showed that lights are one of the top five electricity-consuming appliances in a home.
Minsters helping resident to set up Digital TV box as well as changing his light bulbs. Damn cool right? Can ministers help me as well? LOL.
There are many ways that you can change this for example like turning off the lights earlier and go make babies instead (1 stone 2 birds), having more people in the same room instead of turning multiple lights all around the house, or simply install LED bulbs which uses about 80% less electricity compared to an incandescent bulb. LED lights also generally last 5 times longer than incandescent lights.
More than 13,000 households in the North East District will benefit from this programme. If all these households switch to LED lights, they are expected to collectively save about 360,000 kWh annually – equivalent to more than $70,000 in energy savings – and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 150 tonnes per annum. All eligible households in the North East District will be notified via mail to collect their vouchers from designated collection points, such as their nearest community centre. The $25 voucher can be used at all Home-Fix, Selffix and Sheng Siong stores across Singapore, Philips Light Lab, as well as roadshows organised by NEA and North East CDC.
Now that's an idea!
More information
Switch and Save: www.cgs.sg/switchandsave.
Young NTUC: www.youngntuc.org.sg
North East Community Development Council:
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