Our Mission is to ensure that all less fortunate individuals encountered are provided the basic necessities they need while also equipping them with information and access to support systems and help.
Our Vision is to ensure that all marginalised communities, groups, individuals and neighbourhoods have adequate access to social services and never fall through the cracks.
Motto
Poverty dies in the light.
Objectives
To render support and direct services for less fortunate individuals through the distribution of foods and sanitary necessities, the providing of short term temporary shelter, financial counselling and needs assessment.
To assist less fortunate individuals and groups with the process of leaving their less fortunate circumstances by being an additional support system and caretaker in the community.
To organise and operate regular community outreach events that will reach out to the less fortunate communities especially in less privileged estates that will connect the homeless, low income families, underprivileged residents, poverty stricken families, single parent families, the elderly, the disabled and migrant workers directly to our social services.
To provide short term temporary shelter for the homeless and poverty stricken individuals and groups while concurrently linking up with other community groups and organisations to further assist these individuals in the long term.
Primary Activities
FTPS will operate a central kitchen from which hot meals will be prepared at breakfast, lunch, & dinner times for both distribution and walk in collection. Communal areas at the kitchen will allow our volunteers and staff to interact with these less fortunate individuals who come to consume or collect food. These interactions will allow FTPS to reach out and
assist individuals through either additional direct services or linking these individuals up with partnering voluntary welfare organisations. Food will also be sent to low income neighbourhoods and other areas identified as having a high volume of less fortunate individuals.
Ration Distribution. Rations will be distributed to lower income neighbourhoods and flats at regular intervals in a month so as to provide some relief for these families while at the same time also giving these families or individuals a chance to directly seek counsel and help for their current less fortunate situations. These interactions will allow FTPS to reach out and assist individuals through either additional direct services or linking these individuals up with partnering voluntary welfare organisations.
Temporary Short Term Shelter. FTPS will operate a “temporary short term shelter”, meant for the destitute, homeless or other less fortunate individuals who require a place to sleep at night while the Family Service Centres, VWO shelters or destitute homes process their admission into their institutions. Individuals who have not been able to seek help at FSCs or any longer term shelters will be assisted by our staff and volunteers in finding the most appropriate avenue in which the individual can seek help. These individuals will also be given more opportunities to interact and open up about any help they or their family might need. These interactions will allow FTPS to reach out and assist individuals through either additional direct services or linking these individuals up with partnering voluntary welfare organisations.
Secondary Activities
Financial Counselling. FTPS will collate, produce and distribute information on the various governmental and non governmental grants, bursaries, resources and financial assistances that are already available to less fortunate individuals and communities. This information will be distributed together with food and rations at our events and daily operating locations. FTPS will also link up individuals suffering through financial difficulties to relevant agencies and organisations that are catered to help such groups. FTPS will also organise talks about better financial habits and practices at community areas.
One Stop Hotline and “Social Services Concierge”. FTPS will set up and operate a hotline that will be publicized to its beneficiaries as a avenue for them to contact in times of social and financial emergencies and they are unsure of where to seek help. It will be conveyed to our less fortunate beneficiaries as a one stop “fuss free” way of seeking help. This is to address concerns of many less fortunate individuals of the messiness and lack of information of where and how to seek help.
Three Core Values
COMMUNITY
COMPASSION
COOPERATION
