30 November 2020
A team of four students from the Institute of Technical Education College East raised some $86,000 for their peers who have been affected by the pandemic.
They did this by producing a video showcasing and telling heartfelt stories of their fellow students who have been struggling in this period.
The group behind the video – Cheryl Oon Siew Ying, 18, Danish Sufi Usyair, 18, Dela Cruz Trisha Mae Guzman, 19, and Margie Ybanez, 20 – took part in this year’s Youth for Causes (YFC) fund-raiser organised jointly by Citi Foundation and YMCA of Singapore. This year, 316 youths across 79 teams participated. Teams were each given the same seed funding of $1,600 and they got to decide how to utilise the funds to help a voluntary welfare organisation of their choice.
The ITE team that produced the video of their peers emerged as the best fund-raiser in the YFC this year.