TFG presented to Sec 1 & Sec 2 cohort of Anglo Chinese School, Barker Road, reaching out to a total of 640 students in late April. The team showed videos and spoke on a variety of topics ranging from the history of tobacco to the risks of nicotine addiction and its effect on the human body. We are happy to have delivered the tobacco message to the boys. Thank you ACS Barker.
TFG2000 had a good session with Sec 1 and Sec 2 students of Pasir Ris Secondary School early March this year. We thank the teachers and students for making the session a enjoyable one.
TFG conducted 2 assembly sessions presenting to about 2500 students on 24/2/2014 and 12/3/2014 at Raffles Girls Primary School. This is the 3rd year running that RGPS used the Tobacco Free Generation notion to educate their girls about the importance of being a new generation of never smokers besides the dangers of tobacco addiction. The girls enjoyed the videos and story telling sessions. They responded enthusiastically during the Q&A session. We thank RGPS for supporting the program.
CHIJ Secondary Toa Payoh have been an ardent supporter of TFG. Besides being a pioneer school to adopt the program, CHIJ teachers and students have successfully integrated TFG theme into the curriculum. CHIJ have also hosted TFG activities on their premises. We hope more schools will follow their footsteps and stress the importance of being nicotine free to the millennium generation. Thank you CHIJ.
Singapore Chinese Girls School’s 2014 TFG program was held in early Feb. SCGS student leaders conducted the session for about 500 of their peers. TFG congratulates the school for embracing the TFG message and the student leaders for presenting the notion and answering the related questions from their peers.
TFG kicks off 2014 schools program with assembly talk at Seng Kang Primary School. About 2500 school children between the ages of 7 and 12 were shown videos and taught the risks of nicotine addiction. They were also encouraged to be part of a generation – a generation of non smokers – the Tobacco Free Generation.
TFG initiated our 2014 school assembly program @ Damai Primary School in Nov 2013. Primary 5 and 6 kids were shown videos, slides and participated in a lively Q&A session. The topics covered included harms of nicotine addiction and recently published ‘secret’ documents of the tobacco industry. The kids were also read a story from a series specially commissioned by TFG to reach out to the young minds. The kids showed a high level of understanding of the topic and this was apparent in their comments and questions presented to the presenters. We thank Damai Primary School for hosting us.
TFG works with the new Sengkang General Hospital and other government organizations to encourage healthy lifestyle in North East Singapore.
TFG had an excellent day on Oct 27, 2013 showing to some of our political and community leaders – the people, the progress and the passion of our movement at the new Sengkang General Hospital groundbreaking ceremony. We are proud to be invited to be part of the Millennium Kids Program (MKP) of Sengkang Health. The MKP program is a program to promote healthy lifestyle to residents of North East Singapore and includes partners like Health Promotion Board and Sports SG.
At the Sept 2013 Delhi meeting on ‘International Conference on Public Health Priorities in the 21st Century : End Games for Tobacco’ last week, TFG2000 was cited several times in the other plenary sessions even before the Singapore delegation presented on the last day of the conference. The Singapore delegation included one presentation each by a secondary school teacher and a medical student. All 4 Singapore presentations were very well received.
Lianhe Zaobao, a Singapore Chinese newspapers reported Ride for Tobacco Free Generation in one of its columns.
Ride for TFG2000 2013 – a ride to showcase support and encouragement for the tobacco free generation. 50 inaugural cyclists including doctors, medical students, teachers and members of the public cycled 100km through the streets of Singapore to spread the message. In the last 5 km, the riders were joined by 70 parent-child combination cyclists led by Singapore’s Member of Parliament Dr Janil Puthucheary. The route included stopping at 2 schools.
TFG & National Cancer Center Singapore hosted Prof Ruth Malone at the Humphrey Oei Disttinguished Lecture Series. Prof Malone’s talk entitled ‘End Game Strategies in Tobacco Control’ was presented to healthcare workers and public who attended the lecture. This talk resonated well with TFG’s agenda of building a new generation of non-smokers via education and social movement.
Local news paper Lian He Zao Bao prints an article on TFG Youth Summit.
Dr Lam Pin Min, chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Health, said that raising the age limit could restrict access to cigarettes. Still, he does not believe it will be effective in cutting down smoking rates in the long term. About 14.3 percent of the population smoke, according to MOH figures.
He feels a more effective strategy will be to work towards a “tobacco free generation”, pointing to a local campaign which hopes to teach children born after the year 2000 to stay away from tobacco. Appropriate legislation to ban the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after 2000 will go hand in hand with this strategy.
“This approach will effectively prevent or discourage our next generation from picking up this bad habit of smoking” he said.
TFG organized our 2nd Youth Summit in U-town in May 2013, National University of Singapore. Attended by students and teachers from seven schools, participants spent 2 days attending lectures,workshops and participated in a video making competition. The event was graced by Dr Lam Pin Min,our guest of honor who is also Chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Health.
“Thank you for not smoking” – TFG inspired article published in Singapore Medical Association’s Oct 2012 Newsletter. SMA is Singapore’s national medical organisation representing the majority of medical practitioners in both the public and private sectors.
http://www.sma.org.sg/…/Publications%20-%2…/4410/Insight.pdf
Flash Mob @ Vivocity Singapore
TFG organized a flash mob at Vivocity on 24th March 2012. The aim of the Flash Mob was to showcase the energy of our youths and to bring greater public awareness for a tobacco free millennium generation. Around 120 youths from different schools participated in the event.
Youth Summit @ CHIJ Secondary Toa Payoh Singapore,
TFG organized its first Youth Summit on 24 March 2012 for 12 participating primary & secondary school together with medical students from Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. The half day event, attended by teachers and students from schools like ACS, SCGS, CHIJ, Greenridge and Henry Park were given a history of tobacco and its spread in the form of a skit, then divided into discussion groups to explore ways in which they can contribute to spread the message. A poster competition was also held. Teachers attending the summit were also briefed on how they can initiate tobacco free programs in their own schools.
Towards Tobacco Free Singapore Movement
TTFS movement featured on local TV .
TTFS movement was featured and team members interviewed on Good Morning Singapore on Channel 8, the premier local Chinese language channel.