About Us

A group of social workers passionate about growing community development work, working in their respective spaces to support communities to lead their own communities. We have since received contributions from others in the community who helped us in kind, in intellectual insights, in the belly and in spirit. We hope to eventually build a Community of Practice in Community Work and set up a Centre for Community Work.

Meet The Contributors:

Ms Woo Peiyi

Peiyi is a social worker, lecturer, researcher and entrepreneur drawn deeply to the principles and values of community development work. She is by nature a person with immense curiosity, loves asking questions and building on meaningful conversations. Making sense of discoveries are important to Peiyi and she takes immense joy in documenting and sorting her findings, with the hope to contribute to learning (a core value that has led her onto the path of teaching). Peiyi is an intuitive person who reads a room well. She enjoys connecting the gifts of people and is resourceful and energetic when she gets enough sleep.

Peiyi is a recipient of the Good Design Research grant. It has given her the opportunity to discover ways to contribute to the community development field in Singapore and she hopes that the project will support grounds up thriving community building in Singapore.

Ms Yu Xinyao

Xinyao is a researcher and a social worker focused on practice research in social service agencies.

Xinyao has built analytical skills and experience in social service research over multiple past projects such as mapping homeless individuals’ experiences with social services. She has a passion to make research findings useful and accessible to both social service practitioners and community members.

Xinyao would like to work with designers and community workers to co-create practical community development solutions that can promote a sense of agency and purpose among marginalised individuals and enhance their lives beyond meeting their basic needs to survive.

 

Ms Clara Sim

Clara assists Peiyi and the team in the administrative needs of the job, mainly coordinating meetings and doing ad-hoc research on whatever needs help!

She is a stay-home-mother with 2 active boys who enjoy their screen time as much as their Mummy enjoys her TV time. When she is not working or doing the housework, you can find her in front of her TV catching up on dramas. She also loves reading thriller novels and will sometimes get so absorbed in the stories that she would lose track of time.

so excited that to participate in this community project and looks forward to working together with the team to achieve the goal we have set out to accomplish – to develop practical solutions in a creative manner!

 

Thank you to the wonderful friends who have connected, contributed insights, and provided moral support throughout the project.

This project is supported by DesignSingapore Council and the Good Design Research grant. Woo Peiyi is a recipient of the Good Design Research grant.

Participate in Design: Larry, Mui Ping & Team

Kontinentalist: Peiying & Team
Shihui, Wai Fu, Pearlning, Gwen, Sharon, Jocelyn, Joon Yan, Zaliffa, QT, Ben, David


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