An events and conference organiser by day, Mr Irza Fauzan Suprapto becomes a football coach on Thursday nights at a street soccer court. The players in his team are aged seven to 16, who comes mostly from lower-income families, living in HDB blocks and nearby estates.
This street soccer sessions are part of the many initiatives by CATCH Plus, an after-school programme run by the Kreta Ayer-Kim Seng Citizens’ Consultative Committee. At the interview with the Straits Times team, Mr Irza mentioned that he hope to inculcate discipline in his young team.
Other than football, CATCH Plus also works with community partners such as Mendaki, Rotaract Club NUS and Heartware Network to provide other programmes – including tuition and reading and literacy classes.
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Source: The Straits Times, 1 February 2017