Project Light

✨ Calling for healthcare volunteers- Medical Mission Trip to Thailand, Phetchabun ✨

Join us as we embarked on our 9th medical trip with Radion International this December!

Click on the link in bio to sign up

✨We will be heading back to Thailand for our 8th medical mission trip!

If you are keen to join us this year, click the link in bio and sign up!

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Project Light is an initiative that was the brainchild of a group of passionate nurses, who decided to create a platform to bring together everyday Singaporeans and healthcare professionals to serve the needy communities by addressing primary healthcare needs, and empowering locals through preventive health education. We recognize that once-off outreaches sometimes may do more harm than good, by causing locals to develop reliance on external help. This becomes harmful when there is a sudden cut in external resources being able to reach the communities, such as what we experienced recently with the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, we aim to be able to initiate sustainable health programmes to effect positive health changes among vulnerable communities.

These 2 years, unfortunately due to the pandemic, we have been unable to proceed with our regular one to two overseas medical outreaches a year that we usually do. Thankfully with the COVID-19 pandemic coming under control, we are once again able to get back onto the horse, and slowly pick up from where we left off. We are delighted to be approached by our regular partner, LovePal, to be the medical support for an upcoming outreach to Mangatarem, Pangasinan Philippines. Our friends from LovePal have spent the past couple of months doing site visits, and identifying the areas where we can offer our help to the locals. The medical outreach is from 1st to 6th of May 2023. For the medical team, our role would be to help provide basic health screening, eye checks, and empowering the locals on managing their health.

We are looking to form a team of medical professionals (nurses/physiotherapists/occupational therapists/podiatrists & doctors) for this outreach. Anyone who is interested or has further questions can feel free to contact Eileen at [email protected], or simply fill up this recruitment form if you’re keen to join us: https://www.giving.sg/volunteer-event?event_activity_id=81853309

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It is with a heavy heart that Project Light has to pull out from our project with RADION International this year on 23rd of February 2020 to the 2nd of March 2020. This trip with Radion to serve the community of Phetchabun, Thailand, has been a pet project of Project Light since 2015. We know that ground preparations had been made and the villagers and staff of Radion in Thailand are all anticipating our arrival. However, we were not able to fulfil the trip this year.

Our 2020 team is made up of nurses, an occupational therapist, and a doctor, from both the public and private sectors, but all on the frontline of this battle. We had been looking forward and preparing for the trip since last year but unfortunately due to the ongoing and escalating threat of the novel coronavirus, most of us in our team of 10 of healthcare professionals have been activated to be placed on standby in the event of a wider spread of the virus in our country. With all of our overseas travel leave cancelled and placed on hold indefinitely, we had no choice but to call off this trip. We know that the refund process from the airlines had been tough and futile but we are immensely grateful to all our volunteers and the understanding that you had shown us!

Over the past nearly 2 months, the novel coronavirus 2019 started from a small epicenter, and quickly rampaged internationally, with confirmed patients and death tolls rising daily. With the virus now confirmed in at least 28 countries, we hope that everyone can come together, regardless of nationality, as we battle this common enemy.

Let us remember to stay healthy, keep others around us safe, and be socially responsible - whether it is staying home if we are sick, or not joining the mass hysteria of panicked buying and hoarding which may result in resources being unfairly distributed and those who are in need of them being deprived as well.

No one “asked” for this virus, so let us not ostracize certain nationalities or races, as xenophobia will serve us no purpose in our already-strained society.

Treat everyone with kindness and respect, and may we all ride through this coming out stronger. 🌱

Project Light will like to thank all those battling on the frontline for working hard, making sacrifices so that we can all proceed with our daily lives❤️