Challenge ur Limits (CurL) is an annual special project, aimed at creating opportunities for beneficiaries and student volunteers to participate jointly in activities that will challenge both their mental and physical limits. Through this platform, CurL hopes to raise support for social integration among youth.
CurL also aims to inspire people without volunteering experience to cultivate interest in serving the community by providing them with a fulfilling and inspiring introductory volunteering programme.
From challenging a Guinness World record of the longest “popiah” ever to making hand-painted clogs and terrariums, CurL has seen friendships blossom between volunteers and beneficiaries throughout the years, and also established a following of youth volunteers who offer their help to the event annually. Some have even brought back their experiences from CurL to inspire others to contribute to the community.
In July 2014, CurL saw persons with visual or hearing impairment, physical or intellectual disability complete a dragon boat race together with the youth volunteers. To many people, dragon boating is a sport for the well-built and trained, and not an activity that they would think they could achieve. With this dragon boating experience, CurL aims to motivate the beneficiaries and volunteers to overcome their mental and physical limitations, and achieve the extraordinary.
I have never done dragon boating before, deeming it a sport that is too challenging for me. But when I heard from my sister, who was a volunteer for CurL, 2013, about how she and her friends rowed together with persons with disability, I felt inspired to join this event after I entered NTU. I want to gain a deeper understanding of our beneficiaries and do my part in helping others become aware of their capabilities.
Beverly Ng, Student Organiser
About Welfare Services Club (WSC)
Founded in 1985, the Welfare Services Club (WSC) is a non-academic constituent club in NTU that provides an umbrella of voluntary activities for all students.With a current strength of about a thousand members, WSC is constantly seeking to extend its outreach to the underprivileged in society.
Currently, WSC runs 7 Regular Service Projects (RSPs), serving the Elderly,Children, Hearing Impaired, Intellectually Disabled, Physically Challenged,Visually Handicapped, and Youths-at-risk. These RSPs consist of volunteers serving the beneficiaries weekly at various locations in ways such as conducting personal development workshops and leisure activities, and giving academic mentoring.
On top of that, WSC also runs 6 Special Projects (SPs) and 4 Supporting Committees (SCs) to provide additional support to beneficiaries, both local and overseas. These projects involve the planning and execution of ad hoc events throughout the year.
