A New Dawn for CaringSG: Reflections and Hopes for 2025
Today, the new dawn of 2025 brings new joy and hope for CaringSG.
Dear fellow caregivers and friends,
Today, the new dawn of 2025 brings new joy and hope for CaringSG. On 1 January 2025, I will take up the new role as Emeritus Chair and Ambassador of CaringSG, and officially step down as honorary CEO.
The helm of CaringSG is now in the steady hands of Mr Edwin Tan, a passionate veteran of Singapore’s social service sector of nearly 3 decades. Since joining us in July 2024, Edwin has led our dedicated CaringSG team successfully in several campaigns and projects, including the Uplift Campaign, CaringSG Family Day, the Purple Parade and CAREforward campaign. With his dynamic and compassionate leadership, I am confident that CaringSG will scale greater heights to support more caregivers and build a stronger Singapore.
As we look back at the past few years since CaringSG’s inception in October 2020, we are greatly heartened to witness the paradigm shifts in the caregiving scene that CaringSG has catalysed in Singapore. Our success does not come easy. It is through unity, collaboration and compassion.
We started as a united founding community of about 40 caregivers and 50 professional allies in 2020. Today, CaringSG is a family of more than 5000 members, with more than 4000 caregivers and an alliance of 23 caregiver support groups. Our caregiver beneficiaries have received support through more than 22,000 touchpoints in our 3i programmes and Step One programme. We have trained more than 150 volunteers and started 8 CAREkaki neighbourhood chapters to strengthen our outreach. More upscaling efforts are planned for 2025 and beyond. In addition, CaringSG exemplifies balanced advocacy through close collaborative efforts with public stakeholders, more than 150 community partners and inclusive corporates to bring forth multiple impactful national initiatives. All these are only possible through sheer grit and determination, which only one with true compassion can muster.
The past has been invigorating, the present inspiring, and the future inviting. With your continual support, I believe CaringSG will grow from strength to strength, and all caregivers in Singapore will be healthier and happier in this new year and years ahead.
Blessings,
Dr Lim Hong Huay
Emeritus Chair and Ambassador, CaringSG
Other Updates
Celebrating Caregivers: Highlights from the CAREforward Event and the Launch of The Healing Journal
On 1 December 2024, CaringSG brought together caregivers, supporters, and the community for an inspiring day at the CAREforward event, held at the Punggol Regional Library.
CAREforward: Speech by Mr Edwin Tan, 1 Dec 2024
Caregiving is a journey filled with dedication and love, and also sacrifice, pain and loneliness. At CaringSG, we believe in deepening our support for caregivers through meaningful programmes and services that cater to their needs and well-being.
CaringSG empowers caregivers with the knowledge and skills to support other caregivers through the Caregiver Volunteer Training (CVT) programme, which is funded by SG Enable.
CAREforward: Speech by Ms Denise Phua, 1 Dec 2024
We are gathered here today at the launch of The Healing Journal: A Caregiver’s Path to Self-Care and our CAREforward event, to celebrate the caregivers in our community.
The concept of CAREforward is a call to action for all of us to care-it-forward, empower and uplift one another.
CaringSG at Purple Parade, 12 Oct 2024
CaringSG is grateful to be part of the Purple Parade again in 2024! We marched with a contingent of more than 100 people, and showcased caregiver programmes, services and support groups at our booth.
Speech by Dr Lim Hong Huay at CaringSG Family Day on 7 September 2024
“The theme today is “Uplift Caregivers, Uplift Community,” because we don’t just want caregivers to do well; we also want the community to be strong. The reason why caregivers chip in is that we are building the community, not just for ourselves, but for our children and future generations.”
