Eleyn, a full-time NUS PPE undergraduate, shares some behind-the-scenes insights gleaned from supporting Project Haikun 2022 as a facilitator.

Our Founding Director, Huijia shares how her experience in a community engagement programme back in 2018 inspired her to design and pilot Resilience Trails — our not-for-profit initiative that supports under-resourced communities by tapping on their gifts and assets in a dignity promoting manner.

Rui Qi, a Gap Year Intern at Skillseed, shares her reflections on being the resident “sustainability officer” in planning Skillseed’s recent office move.

“To me, this is simply us sharing what we care about, and caring about what we share.'“

Our founding director, Huijia, shares her journey on why and how the Training complement at Skillseed was developed, ending the year by reflecting on how we started.

An internship experience filled with gratitude and many learning values

The first trip that Xin Er and I did was Design for Good, and it was with a group of MGS girls in Phnom Penh. Just on the second day we were both so tired. So we laid down and were like “We can’t do this anymore, help!”

A valued team player with a generous heart for community, Hema shares her reflections over 3.5 years working at Skillseed.

Skillseed Apprentice Fu Xiyao shares about her experience as a Skillseed ‘China Hands’ Intern in 2018, where she worked to develop experiential learning programmes and create stronger partnerships with schools in China.

Be inspired by Foreword Coffee, an initiative started by Skillseed alumnus and ex-intern, Lim Wei Jie, to provide a platform for differently-abled people to realise their professional potential…

Reflecting on the highs and lows of the past year.

Fresh out of the IB Diploma Programme at St. Joseph’s Institution, I looked at my calendar. January was to be spent holidaying and preparing for University applications. In February, I would juggle between healthcare shadowing and applications. I glared at March. A wide, gaping space speckled with numbers stared back at me with foreboding.

Art is what made a RISD graduate cross an ocean to lead an organisation in Chiang Mai, thousands of miles away from home; art is what found two Singaporeans navigating songtaews and bustling Thai back alleys in order to design a course about how it might be harnessed for social good; and art is what is giving people voices in this incredible community, even now, as we speak.