What you can do to save Aware, my beloved organisation!

My personal note to friends on facebook: Dear friends, please help me save my beloved organisation, Aware - one with many respectable female leaders who fought dedicatedly for the progress of Singapore's women over the last 25 years. Support the original AWARE mission to be secular and diversified, and respect for individual choices. For more details, you may read : www.we-are-aware.sg/what-h
appened. This online petition is open to all Singaporeans and PRs at home and overseas, any gender. If you believe in the cause, pls sign the peitition at this website: http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/gender-equality-for-all.html
Thank you!! -Shan


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From Singapore Social Workers facebook group:

I am sure many of you would be familiar with the saga involving AWARE by now. As one of the more prominent women's rights group in Singapore, AWARE has been taken over by a group of relative unknowns who have not made their agenda or their policies regarding women's rights clear. Even though I am concerned about the new exco's stand on sex and sexual minority issues, what is unfortunate is that the gay vs conservative right wing christian polarity was the angle that got played up in a disproportionate fashion. What I found more disconcerting, however, was the way the new executive committee got into the governing council of AWARE due to the organisation's constitutional weakness. According to the old AWARE members, none of the members of the committee has ever volunteered for the organisation and all have only been members for 3 months or fewer. Will the new ex-co safeguard the values that AWARE has always stood for, which is equality, inclusiveness, and respect for diversity? As a social worker, such values are important to me. If you would like to support AWARE's 'vote of no confidence' campaign, please sign up as a member and vote at their Extraordinary General Meeting (EOGM) on 2nd may. More details about the EOGM and what happened can be found on this website http://www.we-are-aware.sg/ Best, Jolovan Many thought-provoking discussions on facebook group: We believe that the recent events at Aware concerns us all. >> An ethicist speaks on Aware: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/topic.php?uid=72296674515&topic=7894