🌈 Singapore LGBTQ+ Study – Your Voice Matters! 👍🏽 This is vital community-led initiative to better understand and support our community. Your experiences and insights will help shape policies, resources, and programs that truly reflect our needs. Why participate? 👉🏽 Help advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and services 👉🏽 Ensure our diverse voices are heard 👉🏽 Contribute to meaningful change 🔗 Take it here: https://lnkd.in/gXa5wxDB ⏳ Only takes 30 minutes. Receive $10 Grab voucher for participation Your participation is powerful. By sharing your story, you help build a more inclusive future for all of us. Thank you for making a difference!
Oogachaga
Civic and Social Organizations
Singapore, Singapore 741 followers
Singapore's most established LGBTQ community orgnisation working with individuals, couples & families since 1999.
About us
Oogachaga is Singapore's most established community-based, professional non-profit organisation working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer & gender-diverse (LGBTQ+) individuals, couples and families since 1999.
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https://oogachaga.lgbt/
External link for Oogachaga
- Industry
- Civic and Social Organizations
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Singapore, Singapore
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1999
- Specialties
- Counselling, LGBTQ, Mental Health, Whatsapp counselling, Hotline counselling, and Email counselling
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57B Pagoda Street
3rd floor (no lift)
Singapore, Singapore 059216, SG
Employees at Oogachaga
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The economic cost of LGBTQ+ discrimination in Singapore is very real, and estimated to be between SGD 1.2 billion to SGD 2.8 billion. This is based on data driven research by Open for Business. We invite you to take a look at the report "The Economic Case for LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Southeast Asia", now available for download.
What’s the cost of exclusion - and the opportunity of inclusion? LBGTQ+ discrimination costs Singapore between 1.2 billion and 2.8 billion SGD (USD 882.3 million - 2 billion). Last September, we were in Singapore to launch our focus report, The Economic Case for LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Southeast Asia: Singapore, which highlights how creating LGBTQ+ inclusion can enhance the country's economic performance and global competitiveness. Download the report here: https://lnkd.in/dyFCFqft
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A thought-provoking piece by the Director of Social Impact at Community Business, Emily Drake, on the impact of the DE&I rollback in the United States, and what we can do here in Asia.
Director of Social Impact @ Community Business | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion | ESG | Employee Wellbeing
Some thoughts on how we can navigate the global narrative around DE&I and remain on course to further inclusion despite the backlash
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In this issue of Social Dimension, a publication of Singapore Association of Social Workers (SASW), Kheng Leng Tok from Project X Singapore & Leow Yangfa from Oogachaga , both registered social workers, share their experiences of working with "invisible" communities in Singapore, namely sex workers and LGBTQ+ persons.
SASW Publications Standing Committee is pleased to present the January 2025 issue of Social Dimension on the topic of New Frontiers! In this issue of Social Dimension, we document and reflect upon some of the forward moves of Social Work. We have done much in terms of our tools and skills (e.g. data, podcasts, technology, expressive arts) and our practice fields (e.g. beyond our shores, climate). In addition, some of these waves of globalisation, climate change, dominion of technology cannot really be avoided. The articles have thoughtfully woven these challenges, giving us some learning points, reflections, questions, tips and inspiration to move forward. As we move into 2025, we wish you a Happy New Year as we all bravely move onward and forward. Enjoy reading and we would love to hear your thoughts and feedback too! Please email us at publications@sasw.org.sg.
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During the Parliamentary debate on the Workplace Fairness Bill on 8 January 2025, MP for Nee Soon GRC, Louis Ng, spoke with conviction in favour of including sexual orientation & gender identity as protected characteristics under the proposed law. He ended his speech as follows: "I would like to end by thanking groups who have been fighting hard and tirelessly to ensure that we can live in a world without discrimination. In particular I thank groups that have been speaking up against workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. They include Pink Dot SG, Oogachaga, Same But Different, SAFE, Project X Singapore, Q Chamber, Action for AIDS Singapore (AfA Singapore) and AWARE."
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On 7 & 8 January 2025, as Parliament debated the Workplace Fairness Bill in Singapore, despite the exclusion of sexual orientation and gender identity as protected characteristics, the Minister for Manpower Dr Tan See Leng made the following assertion: "Let me state clearly that we do not tolerate any forms of workplace discrimination, including towards LGBT individuals." #workplacefairness #antidiscrimination #WFL
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The workplace & employment related discrimination faced by the transgender community in Singapore is very real. Kudos to TransgenderSG & others for documenting such cases.
Trans and gender-diverse workers in Singapore face real and painful workplace discrimination 💔, and the current Workplace Fairness Bill — being debated this week 🏛️ — will do little to protect them. 💬 We hear from trans individuals about the challenges they’ve faced in the workplace, from invasive hiring practices to being denied access to toilets. These stories highlight the urgent need to include gender identity and sexual orientation as protected characteristics 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈. ✨ No one should have to choose between living as themselves and their livelihoods. Let’s work together for fair and inclusive workplaces and demand progress! 💪💼 #workplacefairness #transrights #transgenderSG
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And that's (almost) a wrap for 2024! Professional counselling sessions reached an all-time high of 1,310 sessions (from Jan to Nov 2024)! That's an average of 4 to 5 professional counselling sessions per day. There were 1,009 Whatsapp counselling sessions; and emotional support was provided through 102 emails received. There were 18 youth events for LGBTQ+ youth aged 16 to 29, and 3 family events for parents & family members with LGBTQ+ loved ones. 34 corporate engagement sessions were held, reaching out to 1,700 corporate participants. You can support Oogachaga to continue affirming & supporting Singapore's LGBTQ+ community with a donation here: https://lnkd.in/gkrjVXx7 #2024wrapped
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Oogachaga Services stay open over the festive season [thanks to our volunteers!] WhatsApp counselling: 8592 0609 (text only) https://wa.me/6585920609 Tue & Thu: 7pm - 10pm Sat: 2pm - 5pm Dates: 24, 26, 28 & 31 Dec 2024; 2 & 4 Jan 2025 Email counselling: CARE@oogachaga.com Replies within 2 - 3 days Professional counselling: By appointment only A reminder will be sent Support Oogachaga (by PayNow QR code) to keep our services running over the festive season & into the New Year!
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Discrimination against people living with HIV is still painfully real in Singapore. Public healthcare institutions National University of Singapore Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health & National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) have come together to launch a designathon to invite proposals to tackle HIV stigma & discrimination. Read more to find out how to taje part!
Got a bold idea to tackle HIV stigma? We want to hear it! The NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, in collaboration with the National Centre for Infectious Diseases and National University Health System, is seeking fresh strategies to combat HIV-related stigma. Submit a 500-word proposal that describes your innovation or idea and stand to win up to SGD 1000! Selected finalists will also be invited to participate in a one-day designathon held in the first quarter of 2025, where you could take your ideas one step further into an actual intervention. For more details, visit https://lnkd.in/gSNek_ib . If you have any further questions, contact Wen Zhi at wenzhi@nus.edu.sg.
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