SINGAPORE: Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Grace Fu on Friday (Mar 8) urged religious organisations to join a new accreditation scheme ...
SINGAPORE: Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Grace Fu on Friday urged religious organisations to join a new accreditation scheme aimed at preparing places of worship to be ready for any crisis.
"We urge religious organisations to come on board, as we work hand in hand to ensure Singapore remains safe and united in the face of any future crisis," said Ms Fu. To date, MCCY, in partnership with Home Team agencies, has helped prepare more than 800 religious and community leaders from more than 300 religious groups strengthen their skills and knowledge in crisis response.The aim of the scheme is to make Singapore more resilient to crisis, said MCCY, adding that this can be done by strengthening the religious groups' emergency preparedness, helping them develop crisis response plans and providing training for crisis response skills.
To qualify, religious groups will need to complete and analyse a self-assessment toolkit to evaluate their emergency preparedness, train members with emergency response skills as well as conduct regular table-top exercises, said MCCY.
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