by Judith Tan
A NEW $20 million fund will seed innovative programmes,
activities and groups to promote active ageing over the next five
years.
To be rolled out by the Council for Third Age (C3A) next April,
the fund aims to strengthen knowledge, abilities and skills of
organisations and better equip them to spread active ageing among
older Singaporeans.
Announcing this on Friday at a forum on the State of Elderly
Report, chairman of C3A Gerard Ee said the new Go! Fund will
promote monetary skill development in areas like management and
finance, consultancy, research and employment of professionals.
This new fund kicks in after the existing Go! Fund lapses next
March.
Mr Ee said the next wave of seniors will be better educated,
more affluent and with more sophisticated learning needs.
To prepare for this, C3A wants to raise awareness of existing
life-long learning programmes, provide resources to nurture them
and aggregate resources from different organisations such as
schools, VWOs and government agencies, he said.