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Empowerment Partnership Scheme

The Empowerment Partnership Scheme (EPS) is a holistic help package provided by the Islamic Council of Singapore (MUIS) for poor and needy families covering economic, social and religious empowerment programmes.  Each family is entrusted by MUIS to a service provider, often a Voluntary Welfare Organisation (VWO), to customize programmes for each family member and managed by an assigned family counselor cum case manager.  The scheme is targeted at families facing multiple challenges.

Since 2004, Ain Society has been entrusted to be one of the working partners of MUIS in providing programmes under its EPS Scheme. More than 100 families consisting of family members of 400 individuals have benefited from the various programmes conducted and organized by Ain Society that encompass social, economic and religious components.

The programme has impacted change. Equipped with the various knowledge and skills, clients were empowered to better manage their problems and have succeeded in addressing their financial difficulties with greater work opportunities.

Project We Care

Project We Care is an outreach programme arising from efforts made by the staff to reach out to the poor and needy families, who are not receiving any financial assistance from other agencies.Currently, school pocket money assistance is provided for these families by providing their school-going children with transport allowance and school basic needs. The financial assistance will be given for a period of 3 months, after which their cases will be reviewed. During this period, our staff will help to link them up to relevant bodies and agencies to help them improve their situations. To date, more than 50 families have benefited from this project.

List of Other Programmes/Activities:

  1. Family Excellence Circles or Family AKRAB under Yayasan Mendaki's CLF programmes

  2. 'Back-to-School' Assistance under AIN Society's Project We Care

  3. 'School Pocket Money Assistance' under AIN Society's Project We Care

  4. Public education forums and talks such as on financial literacy, anti-stress diet

  5. Distribution of donated items by the Boys' Brigade