Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation (APB Foundation) has partnered SIF to enhance the palliative care skills of physicians and nurses in Vietnam and upgrade physiotherapists’ rehabilitation skills and knowledge in Cambodia. Through funding of $123,231 from the APB Foundation, our SVO programme is able to introduce skilled Palliative Care volunteers from Singapore to Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, and to the National Cancer Hospital in Hanoi twice a year from April 2005 to November 2007.

Support of $50,000 from APB Foundation also enabled SIF to send a group of Singapore volunteers to carry out a series of four training programmes over 12 months from July 2006 to July 2007 to improve the quality and range of rehabilitation services provided to disabled Cambodians in Phnom Penh. This is a collaboration between SIF and the Disability Action Council in Cambodia.

Metro for Children is an annual fund-raising initiative launched in 2001 in partnership with SIF and Raffles Junior College to benefit Asia’s disadvantaged children and women. Since 2006, students from Pioneer Junior College (PJC) have taken over from Raffles Junior College to lead and fund raise at Metro stores. To date, Metro for Children has raised over $750,000 for SIF’s capacity building projects in the region.

Cambodia has been the focused country for Metro for Children between 2005 and 2007. The funds raised enabled SIF to send three In-field SVOs including a Special Education Teacher, a Senior Social Worker and an Occupational Therapist to work with two SIF partners in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, namely the Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Mercy Teams International, Cambodia. The fundings also provided training of trainers project in the form of counselling and emergency paediatric care as well as playback theatre and ProDesktop workshops.

Through the establishment of the SIA-SIF Travel Grant in 2004, Singapore Airlines has supported the SIF in its mission to champion international volunteerism, develop global friendships and foster goodwill.

Under the partnership, Singapore Airlines annually provides free of charge return air tickets to enable volunteers to carry out various humanitarian, capacity building, youth outreach and community work overseas.

UBS is one of the world's leading financial firms, serving a discerning international client base. As an integrated firm, UBS creates added value for clients by drawing on the combined resources and expertise of all its businesses.

UBS community affairs activities are based on the acknowledgement that the Firm's success not only stems from its employees' skills and resources and the relationships it fosters with clients, but also from a healthy and prospering environment. A great deal of thought goes into planning partnerships and activities that provide UBS the opportunity of giving back to the community not just financially but through volunteering.

UBS-AG has funded four SIF projects over a period of three years at a cost of $430,000 from 2004 to 2007. Through capacity-building in a sustainable manner, these projects will indirectly impact the lives of beneficiaries which include children in rural and urban areas, women and other disadvantaged groups.