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Tiny Toones is a group in Cambodia that teaches kids and teenagers break dancing. KK and Tango came by the Riverkids Foundation (Cambodia) office 2 weeks back when I was still in Cambodia and we talked about firming up our plans for collaboration. (They were the ones who did the graffiti mural for the Family House as well)

We're now planning to have once a week lessons for the grade schoolers from 4.30 to 6pm every Thursdays and if it's popular with the kids, we'll extend lessons to twice a week, so more can have fun.

For those thinking of going for marathons, this is one great way of raising funds among friends and family.

Hi!

A few donors have feedbacked that they couldn't donate/ subscribe to a monthly donation subscription from the Riverkids website (www.riverkidsproject.org)

Has everyone here experienced any problem with donating to Riverkids online? 

You would notice the prominent calendar at the top of the main discussions page. It'll show the updates of Riverkids' important events and volunteer activities in both Singapore and Cambodia.

Volunteer activities in Cambodia mainly working this way:
1) Someone expresses interests in working with Riverkids
2) Riverkids will match skills of the would-be volunteer with skillsets that the community/ staff can benefit from (eg, sewing workshops, office administration/ documentation, etc)

Riverkids wants Designers (basically anyone who's got an eye for design and can use photoshop) to design adverts, banners on demand!

This will be an adhoc volunteer opportunity and can be done from home individually or with a group of friends but what we need are COMMITED people who would come forward and say 'YES! we'll cook something up within a set deadline'.

The plan is to have a steady pool of 'RK designers' who can deliver and send us designs - quirky, Riverkid-ish - designs for the shop or for awareness campaigns within a set deadline.

The name says it all.

Teach the kids, especially the Get Ready! girls how to cook and also expose them to the various cuisine around the world.

It's a great way to learn different cultures and also a very necessary skill - which i unfortunately lack sorely.

We had a debrief yesterday at the office with the Raffles Junior College teachers regarding their 2-3 weeks service learning trip at Riverkids Foundation and creativity (especially of the Get Ready! Girls) was something that popped up.

Though the girls had great skill in doing craft work, knitting , crocheting, etc, creativity was sorely lacking. Getting them to do craft usually results in all of them making the exact same product as the other, which is good when you're practising your craft skills etc, but not very exciting. Plus, their fear of making mistakes stops them from doing things out of the box.

Heli the kindergarten coordinator at Riverkids Alexandra emailed me a few days back and asked the following:

We would actually need some jigsaw puzzles too with 4, 8, 10, 12 and maybe 20 pieces. Do we have any? If you know anyone who wants to contribute something, they could buy them in Singapore since I didn't find them at one of the book stores here.

I went window shopping earlier and spotted a small kids educational store at the shopping mall near my place (Parkway parade). It has puzzles with 2, 4, 8, 12 pieces I think.

This is a post by Pam Rowell,

What is the main teaching philosophy of the Riverkids kindergarten and early childhood approach to teaching? I'm guessing it is mixed given the cultural crossroads of the setting

This group is for all kindergarten teachers out there!  Riverkids has our own kindergarten situated within the community which we serves - which means limited space and difficulties that stem from different cultural attitudes and the lack of resources.

This group is not limited to Riverkids' issues though!

Do share your experiences, ideas and questions with regard to pedagogy, manipulatives, storage, etc.

We hope this will be an avenue where all kindergarten teachers can find and receive advise and feedback

I was up a Phnom Penh, Riverkids Foundation 2 weeks back with Elaine, a volunteer who offered to come up with a business proposal for the Bright Girls - the graduated Get Ready! Girls who are now training to make little girl clothes and dolls. Though the dresses are getting better, the girls still have a long way to go. The sewing trainer in charge of teaching them mentioned that they will need another 6 months of training to perfect their sewing skills and learn the basics of design and cutting templates pre-sewing. And there's also the training in starting a business.

We need help with the shop! We're looking for dedicated people or groups of people to come together to make the shop much better than it already is - at the same time keeping costs low!
Volunteers interested in this can help out on an adhoc basis or a more regular basis depending on the position.

Position 1: Inventory management  
Position 2: Marketing and Publicity
Position 3: Fair Assistants
Position 4

Riverkids will be having our own Garage Sale on 5th to 6th Apr at the Singapore Office at Hooper Road. Items from the Riverkids Shop will be on sale as well as some donations in kind that we have received over the months that couldn't be sent up to Cambodia due to logistics issues or other issues. All proceeds from sales will go back to Riverkids and unsold donations will be sent to various charities around Singapore.

In preparation for the Garage Sale, we need volunteers to:
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The Singapore River Market Fair is on again this coming weekend!

It's at the Arts house (near the Asian Civilisations Museum) from 11 -7pm on Sat and Sun.

We need volunteers to help out on Sat between 10 to 7pm. Those interested, do email me at angeline@riverkidsproject.org and state the times in which you are available. Thanks!

And those who can offer transportation to carry the shop items from our Hooper road office to the Arts house and back, please do come forward!