Temasek Foundation

Congratulations to our Board Directors, Ms Jennie Chua and Mr Teo Ming Kian for being awarded 'The Distinguished Service Order' at the National Day Awards 2024.

Ms Jennie Chua has been with Temasek Foundation since 2007, and is currently Chairman of the Health & Education Executive Board. She spearheaded regional efforts to combat Covid-19 as well as projects that are directed towards improving the well-being of communities in the region including Singapore.

Mr Teo Ming Kian has served as Chairman of the Climate & Liveability Executive Board since 2016 and helmed programmes that support the sustainability of the global ecosystem, including The Liveability Challenge.

We are proud to have benefitted from their support and guidance throughout these years.

Thank you for your distinguished service. Congratulations once again on your well-deserved awards!

More OSCAR friends are joining our journey to start and sustain their heart work in the community! At OSCAR Night 2024 last month, we celebrated the achievements of old friends as well as new ones.

Special thanks go to FairPrice Foundation, SMRT, and SP Group, as well as Mr Yang Kai and other anonymous individual(s) who pledged to co-fund with Temasek Foundation OSCAR Fund and work alongside promising ground-up groups to help grow their impact!

Inspired? Find out more information to catalyse change from the ground up at www.temasekfoundation.org.sg/oscar.

This is the Singapore Indian Orchestra and Choir (SIOC) — Singapore’s only Indian orchestra group with close to 40 years of melodic legacy!

Our multiculturalism is uniquely . Temasek Foundation is proud to celebrate this special multicultural music scene and embrace our diversity of cultures through the different music groups we support.

This Racial Harmony Day, SIOC musicians and multicultural musical talents performed "Singapura" in four languages, using ethnic instruments such as the Veena, Accordion, Guzheng, and Violin. Swing over to our TikTok channel (https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSYWYqgUC/) to watch the full performance! 🎶🎵🇸🇬

We are proud to partner World Organization of the Scout Movement - WOSM in this effort to foster peace and social cohesion across Southeast Asia! 🤝🏻🪴🕊️

Looking forward to the impactful work by these young peace builders! ✌🏼

World Scouting and Temasek Foundation collaborate on a new youth-led peace, dialogue and harmony programme in Southeast Asia World Scouting and Temasek Foundation are proud to announce a ground-breaking new partnership aimed at fostering peace and harmony across Southeast Asia through the "Young Peace Builders” programme.

Around 200 kids in Boon Lay received health screenings during the June holidays, all thanks to a ground-up initiative by Neighbourhood Health Service Kids!

This is a paediatric health screening project by NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and proudly catalysed by Temasek Foundation's OSCAR Fund. From dental screening, eye checks to developmental assessments, NHS Kids team aims to identify and address health conditions early on.

A huge shoutout to the committee members and student volunteers for this impactful community initiative! 👏🏼👧🏻👦🏽🩺

"Mixing Chinese blue porcelain patterns with cartoon - I like matching cultural motifs with modern and personal touches. I enjoy studying visual arts at SOTA and explore themes of cultural identity, childhood nostalgia, and modern influences."

- Rui Yu, recipient of Temasek Foundation Scholarship for Arts Education & 2023 Visual Arts graduate, School of the Arts (SOTA)

Fashion. Sustainability. Special. Chic! 💃

Temasek Foundation joined forces with Le Eco Chic, a youth-led group dedicated to reducing the fashion industry's negative impact and promoting inclusivity.

The fashion show spotlighted the stunning "Vietnamese Batik Floral Touch" collection by Vun Art, a Vietnamese social enterprise. These sustainable pieces were modeled by young persons with disabilities trained by Singapore Fashion Runway.

The result? A confident strut in front of a live audience! ✨

Happy Youth Day everyone!! 🌟 Your energy and passion inspire us all. Keep pursuing your dreams and creating positivity!

Ft youth leaders from Temasek Foundation Specialists' community Action and Leadership Exchange (TF-SCALE) programme!

The purr-fect cat-titude to support pet cat sterilisation efforts!

In one of the largest Spay Days conducted in Singapore, close to 100 pet cats were sterilised and micro-chipped this month through the Pet Cat Sterilisation Support programme in partnership with Temasek Foundation.

Offered by the Animal & Veterinary Service, a cluster of NParks, for free to low-income families, pet sterilisation can prevent unintended breeding and helps to address animal welfare issues upstream.

Thank you to all community partners – Cat Welfare Society, Singapore Veterinary Association and Temasek Polytechnic – for creating a paw-sitive impact with us! More Spay Day activities will be rolled out later this year to benefit more families who qualify.

Here’s a shoutout for Impact Challenge at SEA!

Temasek Foundation is happy to be a Challenge Partner for Impact Challenge at SEA – a competition designed to discover and invest in promising impact start-ups in Vietnam that propose climate solutions or promote the transition towards a digital economy.

Applications are now open and will close on 30 June, for the two themes –
💚 Green: Startups with solutions for environmental sustainability
💻 Digital: Startups enhancing digital access and inclusion to drive social/economic value

For more details: www.impactchallengeatsea.com

Congratulations to Wushu World Champion Zeanne Law for winning Sportsgirl of the Year in the Singapore Sports Awards 2024!

A final-year student from the Singapore Sports School, Zeanne is also a recipient of Temasek Foundation's Scholarship for Sports. The scholarship recognises exemplary student-athletes in their pursuit of sporting excellence.

We’re proud of her achievements and here’s wishing all our young Singaporean athletes further success!



Photo credit: Singapore National Olympic Council

Ever thought of building your own robot car? 🚗

Driven by his passion for robotics, NUS High School of Mathematics & Science student Huang Qizhe built the 'LEGGO with Grandkids' ground-up project, in partnership with Temasek Foundation OSCAR Fund.

Both seniors and young children attended 10 sessions at NTUC Health's Active Ageing Centre in Bukit Batok West and had hands-on experience to 'piece' their projects together through coding and robotics.

A wheely fun way to 'build' bonds across generations!

From predicting weather patterns to planning better sleep, our students are discovering ways AI can improve lives.

Temasek Foundation supported over 140 students in a 2-day AI workshop. Workshop projects were showcased at the AI Learning Festival held during the Singapore International Mathematical and Computational Challenge at NUS High School of Mathematics & Science.

AI is the future. We’re very interested in this space and will find ways to catalyse AI learning and innovations to better lives.

Congratulations to Rebee Health whose AI-Assisted TelerehabiLitAtion System (ATLAS) programme will soon be piloted by community hospitals for their patients.

Co-developed with SingHealth Community Hospitals (SCH) with feedback from patients and caregivers, ATLAS allows physical therapy to be remotely guided and monitored.

Temasek Foundation is happy to have catalysed the development of this solution, comprising a wearable sensor, patient application and a dashboard for the physiotherapy team.

This makes post-discharge recovery more seamless, convenient and affordable – without facing potential delays from appointments with therapists, travelling costs and other barriers.