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Since 2006, Ain Society has restructured itself and focused more on at-risk youths and disadvantaged families. The Society has been working closely with Yayasan MENDAKI, Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) and Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (MUIS) in providing various beneficial programmes and services for the community. In order to serve the youth group better, in 2006 Ain Society has collaborated with Bukit Batok East grassroots organization in the setting up and running of BBE Gen-Y Youth Hub, our youth development centre in Bukit Batok East.  To date, our developmental, remedial as well as rehabilitative programmes and services have benefited more than 6,000 youths and women plus more than 200 families directly, and via mass one-off programmes, more than 30,000 have benefited.

Through the years, Ain Society has strived to improve and enhance its services for the community.  However, the absence of fixed operational and programme funding limits its capability to sustain as well as expand its services to everyone in need.  Ain Society has never received any form of permanent funding or financial support from any related government agencies. As such, it is continuously seeking support from these agencies for programme funding as well as support from individual and corporate donors and supporters.

Ain Society focused its targeted clientele into 2 groups, disadvantaged families and at-risk youths. The following are programmes run by Ain Society, for which you can help fund:

Family Outreach

Other than the Empowerment Partnership Scheme which is funded by the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore, Ain Society has made efforts to reach out to those in need but does not fit the criteria for financial assistance from other agencies eg. the elderly who lives alone and whose children are getting regular income but does not support the parents due to their own financial difficulties. These are our Family Outreach clients.

Ain Society has very actively appealed to the public for financial support which we utilised for buying food items as food rations for these families.  We also garnered public donations to support the children of these families in term of school expenditures and assisting the family to start small businesses.

Vocational Training

Ain Society aimed to provide the disadvantaged families with knowledge and skills which would able them to generate income.  Hence, we provide sewing skills as well as baking and cooking classes to interested single mothers amongst our clientele group.  On the same note the Society is also exploring into more beneficial approved courses for these families.  This is because, many of them do not qualify for the vocational training programmes provided at national level due to their incompetency in English, age and/or not meeting the minimum requirements of those courses offered.

Bukit Batok East Gen-Y Youth Hub

The main youth service that was operated by Ain Society is through its BBE Gen-Y Youth Hub.  This youth development centre is the brainchild of Mdm Halimah Yacob.  In fact, the building of the youth hub, which is located at Blk 235 Bukit Batok East Ave 5, is heftily supported by her and the Bukit Batok East Grassroot Organisations.

BBE Gen-Y Youth Hub run its programmes to assist the out-of-school youths and youths at high risks to develop themselves holistically.  These are youths who had been involved with undesirable activities such as substance abuse, premarital sex, juvenile delinquencies and involvement with gangs.  The programme run at the youth hub includes:

  • Academic education
  • Aesthetic development such as the Kolintang Ensemble and Modern and Traditional Dance troupe etc
  • Vocational training with part-time employment opportunities
  • Life coping skills

The greatest challenge by the youth hub and the individual youths is their personal and family issues. Majority of our youths have been involved with delinquencies, premarital sex, gangs and substance abuse. Others come from problematic or disfunctional families. Henceforth, our focus will also be highly on empowering these youths to handle these issues surrounding them.  Unless these issues are effectively resolved, the youths will have minimal chance of succeeding in their lives.

Apart from that, Ain Society is working on:

  • Providing rehabilitative care services for the at-high risks youths through a 'rehab through family and community support' modality;
  • Providing more vocational training opportunities for the disadvantaged families and youths; and
  • Assist them in getting employability skills or capability to start-up their own enterprises to generate their own income.

Serenity Centre for Cancer Patients

At its 10th Anniversary celebration in 2010, Ain Society announced that it had started a Cancer Patient Support Group and would be setting up the centre called Serenity@Ain for cancer and chronically-ill patients and survivors.  The Society had made that strategic decision because through its community outreach programmes with Breast Cancer Foundation, it saw many cases of women with cancer needing emotional, social and financial help.  Thereafter, the number of clients, including children, with cancer coming to Ain Society for social and financial support has been increasing for the past 5 years, similar to the national trend.  Furthermore, there is a service gap whereby no formal cancer support groups focus on commonality factor such as faith, which is as equally important as the medical treatment itself in fighting the disease. 

Currently, counselling and case management of the cancer patients and their families are being done at Ain Society's head office premises at 20 Joo Chiat Road.  Due to limited space of about 60 square metres, only two support group sessions are held monthly for 60 cancer patients.  

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