Certis partners BT Budding Artists Fund

Singapore

SECURITY services provider Certis is partnering The Business Times Budding Artists Fund (BT BAF) to launch a series of activities to empower the children and youth from disadvantaged backgrounds through the arts.

Called Community Give-Back, the programme will enable the children and youth who have received from the BT BAF to use their talents to give back to the community.

To kick off the launch at The Little Arts Academy North Campus I, more than 20 staff and management volunteers from Certis, together with children and youth from BT BAF, engaged with 20 children from Club Rainbow in a workshop to create an augmented reality artwork using clay models and stop-motion videography.

Sam Tan, Minister of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Social and Family Development, graced the event as the Guest-of-Honour. At the event, Paul Chong, group CEO of Certis, presented a cheque for S$30,000 to Wong Wei Kong, Editor, The Business Times.

Over the next 12 months, the programme will see 100 volunteers from Certis and 60 children and youth participants currently enrolled in arts programmes supported by BT BAF conduct a series of art and digital technology activities for more than 150 beneficiaries from four charity organisations - Club Rainbow, Singapore Association for the Deaf, Fei Yue Family Service Centre and SPD.

Certis is the presenting donor of the Community Give-Back programme. BT BAF is a charity fund managed by The RICE Company Limited that provides access and opportunities in the arts to empower financially disadvantaged children and youth.

Over the next 12 months, the programme will see 100 volunteers from Certis and 60 children and youth participants currently enrolled in arts programmes supported by BT BAF conduct a series of art and digital technology activities.