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Where are they now? Jetstar’s Flying Start Grantees

From donating food and clothing to communities across Vietnam, to holding pop-up dinners to share Filipino cuisine in Singapore, Jetstar’s

Flying Start grantees have been busy. Here, they share an update

Culture KitchenIn August, Culture Kitchen – a Singapore-based organisation that fosters cross-cultural understanding through global cuisines – held a pop-up event celebrating the food and culture of the Philippines. The organisation’s founder, Adrianna Tan, says the event was a great success with a high turnout, and made up of about 50% Filipino participants.

Culture Kitchen has also started “Each organisation looks beyond borders and

ethnicities to better the human condition”

S I N C E E A R LY 2 0 1 4 , J E T S T A R ’ S F LY I N G S T A R T P R O G R A M M E has donated $60,000 of cash and flights to three deserving Singapore-based organisations: Project Give Pray Love, Children of Cambodia and Culture Kitchen. Each recipient has been awarded $10,000 in cash plus $10,000 worth of flights to help enrich the lives of the communities they serve. Though each organisation is unique, they all look beyond borders and ethnicities to better the human condition.

Project Give Pray Love Since receiving a Jetstar Flying Start grant in 2014, Project Give Pray Love (PGPL) has built upon its Vietnam-based work, giving aid to impoverished communities in the form of housing, tuition, food and bicycles. In 2014, PGPL extended its reach to more communities and is now working in Vi Thuy, Vĩnh Trung and Vĩnh Tuong. It has also provided bicycles to members of the Committee for Senior Citizens, enabling them to visit elderly village members. PGPL founder Jeanine Lim says their trip this month will allow them to donate food to hospital soup kitchens, and work with local hospitals to cover the medical expenses of anyone unable to pay. For more information, visit: projectgivepraylove.wordpress.com

Children of CambodiaThanks to their Flying Start grant, which they received in May 2014, Children of Cambodia (CoC) has been able to facilitate two trips to the Angkor Hospital for Children with Singaporean medical staff performing 35 life-changing burn-reconstructive surgeries.

The majority of the funds, says CoC’s project head Tess Kwek Wei Ling, has been used for education and training, including a fellowship awarded to a local surgeon to spend two weeks at various hospitals in Singapore.

In addition, a portion of the funding was used to produce a video for future fundraising efforts.

Early next year, a surgical team from Singapore General Hospital will again travel to the Angkor Hospital Cambodia to continue operating on patients and sharing their skills and knowledge.

For more information, visit: thechildrenofcambodia.com

Are you a Singapore-based, not-for profit organisation seeking funding? Apply now for Jetstar’s Flying Start programme. Charities, educational and health organisations, sporting groups and arts organisations are eligible to apply. Closing date for the next selection is November 30. Visit jetstar.com/sg/en/flyingstart to apply.

working with field organisations such as HOME to provide emergency flights to migrant workers stranded in Singapore. So far, five people have received Jetstar flights home thanks to the Flying Start Grant.

Over the next year, Culture Kitchen will also be holding special events every three months, as well as launching a crowd-sourced multicultural cookbook.

For more information, visit: culturekitchen.sg