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3 Learning to Stay Out of Trouble
4 The Straight & Narrow
6 功夫小子
8 Working with the Local Community
10 Enhancing Aftercare Professionalism
Let’s Make Cookie Dough
11 The Key to Grasping a Second
Chance in Life
12 Fitting In
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I am very excited about June’s
charity �lm premiere − The Karate
Kid. Not only is it my favourite
genre (martial arts) with my
favourite actors (Jackie Chan and
Jaden Smith), the message within
the movie sings the same tune as
our mission. If someone asks, who
your life mentor is, you probably
won’t have anyone to mention. I
remember in my school’s band, I
often saw musicians handling their
instruments with gloves. That is
because the oil form the hands will change the quality of the
bells. If we realise, everything we touch is changed and
everybody we touch is changed.
We do have many mentors in life. I am grateful to my teachers
(other than my parents) for giving me the education that made
me who I am in society today. They changed me. I am grateful
for the friends I have who saw me through tough times and
moulded my character. They changed me. Sometimes, being in
the situation makes us oblivious to what an outsider sees.
Having a mentor prevents you from making a mistake that can
be avoided.
SACA has a mentoring programme. Volunteers from the public
can join our programme to guide ex-offenders in their
reintegration. Minds, spirits and hearts, not just physical can be
touched. Everybody we speak to, rub shoulders with or even
smile at, are changed in some minute way. We leave a piece of
ourselves behind with everyone we meet, and we take a piece
of them with us.
Little changes can make a difference.
Christine Ng
Managing Editor
SPARKS — Igniting Change
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