PA's Family Life Champions get refresher programme to enhance skills

Channel NewsAsia 5 Jan 08;

On Saturday, the Family Life Champions were at the Outward Bound School on Pulau Ubin for a two-day team building programme. Southeast District Mayor Matthias Yao said the programme is a catalyst to emphasise that the family is the natural way of life.

SINGAPORE: Forty Family Life Champions of the People's Association are going through a three-month development programme aimed to equip them with skills to better perform their roles.

The programme has three modules - enhancing leadership, organisational abilities and management abilities.

The objective is to help the Family Life Champions effectively promote family life in their grassroots committees.

More than half of the programme involves hands-on learning, including harnessing the Internet to promote family life.

There are also eight workshop sessions, each targeted at an important aspect of promoting family life.

On Saturday, the Family Life Champions were at the Outward Bound School on Pulau Ubin for a two-day team building programme.

Southeast District Mayor Matthias Yao said the programme is a catalyst to emphasise that the family is the natural way of life. - CNA/ir