Socially Conscious Media Platforms
From Social Collaborative Singapore
In engaging with communities, having socially conscious media platforms is also an advocacy arm for many projects. These platforms could serve as informative, interactive or just personal stories and reflections on their interactions and/or knowledge with the community.
Some of these channels can be found on Instagram, Telegram or even other social media platforms.
The list listed here are non-exhaustive.
On Instagram
| IG Username | Social Cause | Genre | Short Write-Up of Page | Link |
| @heyyougotmailsg | Seniors | Remote Volunteering | The Hey! You Got Mail Project started off in wanting to spread positivity during Covid-19 when families are being restricted to seeing each other. The team designs, makes and mails high quality handmade cards on your behalf to someone you love, or a community you want to support as part of #sgunited. With just $2 from us, they will make and mail 1 card to a person you care about, and 1 card for the senior staying in their partner nursing home (1+1). | https://heyyougotmail.com/ |
| @kelliepandasg | Mental Health | Informative | Kellie is currently a student studying in SUTD. She has been actively involving herself in different communities and is an active advocate for mental health. Her content covers comprehensively on different aspects of mental health, and is looking to deliver more content to people as well! | |
| @inonestory | Mental Health | Stories | The team believes Our Story is Your story in One story. They love stories of real people — imperfect and broken, like you and me.
It’s easy to feel like you are alone in this life - where being misunderstood, mislabelled and misjudged is increasingly a norm. |
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| @earthtodorcas | Mental Health | Personal, Creative Art | Dorcas is an avid art lover who seeks to advocate for social causes through her art. | |
| @thecrazypsychkid | Mental Health | Informative | Haziqah is currently a psychological student in NUS and she is an active mental health advocate. She has gone through several mental disorders in her life, and she hopes to raise awareness, spark and normalise conversations about mental health in our society today. | |
| @calmseed | Mental Health | Creative Art | Started by a psychology student in Singapore, @calmseed is promoting mental health, spreading its awareness and fighting its stigma against it through her art work and provides various tips for self-care through her doodles. | |
| @ericiaa_ | Mental Health | Personal, Creative Art | Ericia prides herself as an artist, writer, mental health advocate, survivor and an aspiring therapist. Her work centres around trauma, mental health and healing. She greatly sees the value in softness, vulnerability and sensitivity. And her art expresses and embraces that. | |
| @ycs.mhc | Mental Health | Informative | Started by a youth-led cluster (Mental Health Cluster) under Youth Corps Singapore, the page shares with us various information on a spectrum of issues surrounding mental health. Their content includes bite-sized information, creative art and even personal stories by people who submitted their stories. | |
| @openjio | Social Issues | Stories | OpenJio is a community for people who want to care more about social issues in Singapore. They see the value in collectively and have been actively sharing event opportunities on their Telegram Page. On Instagram, they have been putting up various personal volunteer and intern features in the social space. | |
| @maidformoresg | Domestic Workers, Migrants | Informative | Started and run by young advocates for the dignity and fair treatment of migrant domestic workers in Singapore, they have been actively churning out content to raise awareness about the domestic workers community in Singapore, that often go unseen. | |
| @youthcolab | Social Issues | Informative | Youth Co:Lab is a youth movment for empowerment, equality, social inclusion and social justice in Asia-Pacific. They focus on empowering and investing in young people to accelerate the implementation of the Sustainble Development Goals through leadership, social innovation and entreprenurship. Their content revolves around social intiatives, and talks/dialogues and facts on issues surrounding Asia-Pacific. (ok idk if this fits the criteria HAHA) | |
| @project.empowher | Social Issues, Women Empowerment | Informative | Started by a group of Y4 RGS students, Project EmpowHER aims to promote female empowerment and raise awareness about gender inequality. Their content currently consists of sharing of prominent female figures and their stories, and informative posts on Covid19 and it's effect on vulnerable women. | |
| @welcomeinmybackyard | Domestic Workers, Migrants | Informative | Started as a campaign to help migrant workers feel welcomed in our neighbourhood especially during the pandemic crisis, this page looks to address residents' concerns and debunk misconception while also creating a safe for our migrant worker neighbours. Their content mainly includes words of encouragements by the public and promoting intatitives that revolves around the migrant worker community. | |
| @projectbarebears | Mental Health | Informative | A group of students from Hwa Chong Institution working with the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) to help raise awareness for mental health issues and bridge the gap between patients and the public. |
Various Forms of Advocacy:
- Informative: Seeking to share information and knowledge about the community
- Advocacy Arm of a SSA/NPO/SE/Community Initiative etc: Sharing about the services they do, stories of their community etc.
- Action-oriented: Sharing information and actively advocating for various rights / actions to be taken.
On Telegram
| Channel Name | Genre | Link |
| OpenJio | Seminars | https://t.me/OpenJio |
| VolunteerJio | Volunteering Opportunities | https://t.me/VolunteerJio |
| MSF Cares | Informative | https://t.me/msfcares |
| SG Social Worker | Informative | https://t.me/sgswkr |
| Youth Corps Singapore | Volunteering Opportunities, Talks | https://t.me/YouthCorpsSG |
| VolunteerSG | Volunteering Opportunities | https://t.me/volunteersingapore |
| Happiness Initiative | Interactive Discussions | https://t.me/happinessinitiative |