Training & Workshops
Our Works
inspire and empower
One of Canact’s goals is to inspire and empower young people to start enacting change within their community. Training and workshops are targeted to raise awareness, provide youth with knowledge and equip them with practical skills to create changes that they want to see around them. All it takes is one person making a difference.
what we can do
Design Thinking
Peirce Secondary School Design Thinking Workshop
Students are taught the 5 steps design thinking framework and trained to solve community problems using the process.
Critical Thinking & Creative Problem Solving
Tanjong Katong Girls’ School Community Problem Solving (CmPS) Workshop
Students use the CmPS framework to identify community issues and implementing the solution as a class project, like a learning journey to East Coast Park to rescue abandoned pets. This programme has been run for 3 consecutive years.
Tanjong Katong Girls’ School: Social Infrastructure - Migrant Workers
A learning journey to the Migrant Workers' Centre for students to empathise and gain insights on the challenges faced by the migrant workers, hence appreciating them more.
Advocacy Projects for Schools
Tanjong Katong Girls’ School: Social Infrastructure - Migrant Workers
A learning journey to the Migrant Workers' Centre for students to empathise and gain insights on the challenges faced by the migrant workers, hence appreciating them more.
Singapore Chinese Girls’ School: Open Little Eyes (OLE) Conference
Supported by the National Youth Council, OLE featured presentations by upper primary students from 15 local and international primary schools on their projects to address worldwide water issues. Guest speakers and VIPs include representations from the UN, US Embassy and prominent international NGOs.
Commonwealth Secondary School: Greenstar Programme
A west cluster programme which trains students from 6 primary schools to be confident and effective presenters and advocates for the environment via photography.
Volunteer Training
Inspiring volunteers and equipping them with essential skills such as interpersonal skills to take on roles for the respective events, be ambassadors and inspire in others an appreciation for the causes.
Southwest CDC Volunteers Training
Central CDC Nurture Volunteer Training
PUB Singapore International Water Week (SIWW) Volunteers Training
Singapore Youth Olympics Volunteer Training