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Reaching Out in Singapore
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During a
Q & A session at the Student Peace Lecture [Photo from SSA] |
Singapore Soka
Association (SSA) organized and participated in a series of
outreach initiatives in November and December including a
peace lecture, a campaign opposing violence against women
and an
environmental exhibition.
From November 14-28, SSA held the "Before It’s Too Late"
exhibition, an educational and community service project
developed by SSA youth since 1997, at the Singapore Republic
Polytechnic. On November 21, the third SSA Student Peace
Lecture was held at the Singapore Management University,
with guest speaker Marina Mahathir--a newspaper columnist
and former president of the Malaysian AIDS Council. The
lecture, which was attended by some 250 people, discussed
the impact of the Internet on people’s lives. SSA
members also took part in the White Ribbon Campaign, which
aims to raise public awareness on violence against women and
children and encourage people to speak up against such
abuse.
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The audience enjoys Dr. Kesavapany’s lecture
[Photo from SSA] |
On December 10, 2007, SSA sponsored its seventh Daisaku
Ikeda Annual Lecture at the organization’s headquarters.
Guest speaker Dr. K. Kesavapany, director of the Institute
of Southeast Asian Studies
(ISEAS) and Singapore’s ambassador to Jordan, spoke on
"Buddhism, Singapore and Interfaith Dialogue" to an audience
of 800 people representing Singapore’s Chinese, Malay and
Indian communities.
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[Photo from SSA] |
In a message sent for the event, SGI President Daisaku Ikeda
characterized dialogue as the fundamental remedy for the
pathology of the modern world.
Ambassador Kesavapany commended SSA’s many
community-oriented activities and urged SSA members to
continue to take the initiative in promoting interfaith and
inter-ethnic dialogue in Singapore.
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