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Volunteer
BE AN MWS VOLUNTEER!
Our volunteers fill critical roles, driving positive change and making a tangible difference in the lives of our beneficiaries.
In turn, being a volunteer helps you feel connected to your community, allows you to contribute to causes you care about, and provides a sense of purpose. It’s also a great way to meet new people and strengthen existing relationships.
We walk alongside all our volunteers, through training programmes, feedback sessions and celebrations.
5 impact areas
7 Volunteer Experiences
We have 7 types of volunteer experiences in the 5 impact areas. Browse our 7 volunteer experiences and pick one that suits your interest, skills and availability, and register in the next section below. For group volunteers, including churches, corporates, and schools, kindly email volunteer@mws.sg
Up Close & Personal
Love to meet people? Encourage, inspire, or just lend a listening ear to beneficiaries who may be lonely or going through hard times. E.g. befriender, door knocking community outreach, pastoral care volunteers. Frequency: from ad hoc to monthly. To be a befriender at our Active Ageing Centres is a 6-month commitment.
Share Your Expertise
Have a skill or knowledge you can share? Whether it’s flower arranging or digital literacy, teach our beneficiaries and engage them, or just offer to help out at the Centre. E.g. tutor, admin support, digital literacy ambassador. Frequency: from ad hoc to weekly.
Imagine & Create
Love craft, painting, or music? Unleash your creativity and share your passion with our beneficiaries through a variety of fun and creative activities. E.g. art and craft facilitator, festive celebration organiser, music jamming facilitator. Frequency: range from ad hoc to weekly.
Keep It Movin’
Love to dance, exercise and stay active? Keep our beneficiaries active and help them build their social networks through fun exercises, games and therapy. E.g. exercise facilitator, Zumba trainer, games facilitator. Frequency: range from ad hoc to weekly.
Fun & Sun
Like the outdoors? Take our beneficiaries out for some fun and educational activities! You can organise an outing, plan a party, carnival, or even an educational excursion for half a day. E.g. outing organiser or assistant. Frequency: ad hoc or during school holidays
Reminiscence Activities
Love nostalgia? Take our beneficiaries on a journey back in time by visiting heritage sites, listening to music, telling stories and tasting traditional food. E.g. reminiscence activity organiser or facilitator. Frequency: ad hoc, weekdays.
Home Improvement
Help brighten and improve a beneficiary’s living space through painting, cleaning, simple repairs, and renovation work. Frequency: ad hoc, project basis.
Photo credit: Courtesy of Zames Chew Kai
Volunteering opportunities
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Your Volunteering Journey
- 1 Start by registering your interest to volunteer.
- 2 An MWS staff will contact you to arrange a meeting at the Centre that you are keen to serve at to share about the Centre’s programmes and assess your suitability.
- 3 MWS will assign you to the MWS Centre that best matches your interest and skill set.
- 4 Before serving as a volunteer, a short orientation will be conducted to provide you with a better understanding of MWS and the important guidelines on interacting with our beneficiaries.
- 5 Volunteers can sign up for volunteer training conducted by MWS to impart befriending skills and awareness of challenges faced by our beneficiaries.
- 6 Every year, volunteers are encouraged to join our volunteer satisfaction survey and evaluate key areas of their role and experience.
- 7 Volunteer appreciation events are organised regularly to acknowledge and celebrate your contributions.
Stories of Our Volunteers
Frequently Asked Questions
Please click here and complete the volunteer registration form to sign up as an MWS volunteer.
Certainly! We have 7 kinds of volunteering experiences which you can choose from. While some might require you to have the necessary skills and experience, many of them are beginner-friendly. We welcome all to volunteer and join MWS in our mission of empowering people to have fuller lives.
All volunteer sign-ups will be screened by MWS volunteer management staff for suitability before they interact with our beneficiaries. We seek your understanding that some volunteer roles may require additional screening by MSF.
Of course! We have a variety of volunteering experiences available. For example, under Up Close & Personal, you can be a buddy to seniors by phoning them monthly. We welcome all volunteers who are keen to serve at MWS to join us.
Yes, you may volunteer at more than one MWS Centre if your availability allows you to do so.
If you are interested to volunteer as a group with your church, school, corporate or interest group, please email volunteer@mws.sg to find out about suitable opportunities.
We encourage all volunteers to be appropriately dressed when interacting with MWS beneficiaries. This includes wearing clean, neat clothing with no offensive advertisements, words or graphics.
Volunteers need to wear a mask when volunteering with our Senior Care Centre and Nursing Homes in accordance with existing MOH guidelines.
No, volunteers should not gift cash and valuables to beneficiaries or staff.
Volunteers must follow the photography/videography guidelines set by the MWS centres. For requests on photography or video filming for public media or corporate platforms, please email volunteer@mws.sg.
MWS staff responsible for volunteers will conduct onboarding sessions for new volunteers to be informed of their responsibilities and conduct. In addition, MWS does conduct volunteer training to ensure that volunteers are equipped to communicate with MWS beneficiaries. Information about volunteer training would be sent to the registered email address and volunteers can sign up from there.
We can conduct volunteer training at your premises (e.g. church or corporate office). Please email volunteer@mws.sg to enquire or arrange a session.
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