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KENNY CHEE
THE National IntegrationCouncil announced yester-
day its broad plans to helpSingaporeans and new immi-grants
build bonds with one ano-ther.
Improving communication between citizens and newcom-ers, through
moves such as mak-ing English-language coursesmore accessible to
new immi-grants, is one of its plans.
Here is a look at some of thec ou nc il s o th er m ov es t
ostrengthen social ties, by makingSingapore home to old and
newSingaporeans, and creating op-portunities for them to
interact.
Using new mediaNew-media platforms, like
blogs and RazorTV, a streamingInternet-TV news site, will beused
to reach out to young, tech-nology-savvy Singaporeans andnew
immigrants.
Content like online competi-tions and video clips will be
de-
veloped to help them under-stand one another better.
T he c ou nc il s v ar io usinitiatives will also be put up
onthe Governments online feed-
b ac k p or ta l R ea ch a twww.reach.gov.sg
The public will be able to
give feedback on the plans onReachs discussion forums,
in-cluding its Facebook and Twit-ter social-networking sites.
These new-media initiatives will complement those devel-oped for
traditional media, likenewspapers and television.
Co-fundingT he c ou nc il w il l s e t u p a$10-million fund to
allow orga-nisations, including private com-panies and societies,
to seekco-funding of up to 80 per centof the cost of projects that
fostercohesion among citizens andnewcomers.
The funds will be disbursedover a period of three years.
Projects that can be support-ed by the fund include thosethat
help Singaporeans, new im-migrants and foreigners to un-derstand
one anothers cultureand history.
This can be in the form of
workshops that allow Singapore-ans to appreciate the culture
ofnew immigrants.
Activities that encourage Sin-gaporeans to mingle and inter-act
with new immigrants, like
festival celebrations and dia-logue sessions, can also be
con-sidered for co-funding.
Starting youngThe National Education pro-gramme will be tweaked
to helpstudents here, both Singapore-ans and new immigrants,
pick
up soft skills needed to preparethem for an increasingly
glo-balised world.
These skills include learninghow to accept new cultures
andinteract with people from differ-ent backgrounds.
Singaporean and internation-al students will also be encour-aged
to have meals together and
celebrate festivals in one anoth-ers homes.This is meant to help
them
build friendships beyond theclassroom.
The National IntegrationCouncil will also encourageschools under
the Singapore ed-ucation system to work with for-
eign schools here on joint com-munity projects to help the
lessfortunate in society.
Forging Singapore identityExisting orientation pro-
grammes to help new citizensunderstand Singapores cultureand
history will be consolidatedand enhanced.
These include the Peoples As-sociations National
EducationExperience Programme.
Citizenship ceremonies fornew immigrants to become newcitizens
will also be reviewed, to
better draw them in as Singa-pore citizens.
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