About Us
The Mentoring AfA aims to promote a culture of mentoring in Singapore, strengthen youth development outcomes through mentorship and increase accessibility and partnership in mentoring by supporting youths to better navigate relevant mentoring programmes/opportunities based on their specific life stage, backgrounds and needs.
By working together, the AfA plans to uplift the quality of mentoring in Singapore and co-create opportunities to support and empower youth in areas of mentoring. To be successful, Singapore must do this together and we need individuals and organizations from various sectors to pool together their expertise, for our youth
Key Features of the Mentoring AfA
- Action-oriented – we co-create and co-deliver together
- Cross-sector collaboration – involves stakeholders from government, community and businesses
- Tackling complex issues with high public salience and involvement of multiple stakeholders
Strategic Outcomes of Mentoring AfA
- Promote a culture of mentoring in Singapore and uplift the quality of mentoring programmes for the benefit of our youth
- Strengthen youth development outcomes through mentorship, via support for them to find their identity and purpose, as well as enabling youth to make better-informed choices in education, career, and life transitions.
- Increase awareness, accessibility and participation in mentoring, by supporting youths to better navigate relevant mentoring opportunities based on their specific life stage, backgrounds and needs.
Our Steering Committee
Chong Leong Fatt
Workgroup 3b Co-Lead, Mentoring AfA | Joint Polytechnic-ITE Student Development Committee Rep | Deputy Principal, ITE College Central
Trisha Suresh
Steering Committee, Mentoring AfA | Public Policy & Economic Graph Manager, LinkedIn
Justin Quek
Steering Committee, Mentoring AfA | Deputy President (External), Advisory Singapore
Norman Ng
Steering Committee, Mentoring AfA | Regional Lead for Government, Politics & Nonprofits (Asia Pacific), Meta
Druga Rajendran
Steering Committee, Mentoring AfA | Senior Consultant, Sequoia Group | Chairperson, SINDA Youth Club
Ivy Tse
Workgroup 2 Co-Lead, Mentoring AfA | CEO, Halogen Foundation Singapore
David Chua
Steering Committee, Mentoring AfA | CEO, National Youth Council
Glenn Lim
Steering Committee, Mentoring AfA | CEO, GLC Pte Ltd | Chairman, Mentoring Alliance of Singapore
Ong Kong Hong
Workgroup 3b Co-Lead, Mentoring AfA | Zonal Director, Schools (South), Ministry of Education
Lawrence Luan
Workgroup 3a Co-Lead, Mentoring AfA | Founder & CEO, Octopus8
Carmen Low
Workgroup 3a Co-Lead, Mentoring AfA | Co-Founder, Afterglow | NYC Council Member
David Hoe
Workgroup 2 Co-Lead, Mentoring AfA | Business Analyst, YTL PowerSeraya | Head, Partnerships, Mentoring Alliance of Singapore
Johann Johari
Workgroup 1 Co-Lead, Mentoring AfA | Assistant Director, Planning, Yayasan MENDAKI
Hafiz Kasman
Co-Chairman, Mentoring AfA | Chief Operating Officer, Kinobi
Kelvin Kong
Co-Chairman, Mentoring AfA | Group Head, Youth Initiatives, Lazada | Executive Director, Mentoring Alliance of Singapore
Christopher Gordon
Workgroup 1 Co-Lead, Mentoring AfA | Acting Director, (Messaging & Engagement), Ministry of Communications & Information | NYC Council Member