Social & Community

KampungSpirit

1 February 2024

Join the kampung to support less fortunate families with essential items

Premise

Less fortunate families in Singapore need essential items, but they're very difficult for single donors to help with. What if we could get 10,000 donors to help?

That's the idea behind KampungSpirit, a space where the entire village (or 'kampung' in Malay) can chip in to buy things like rice cookers, washing machines, milk/diapers (and more!) for households in dire need of them.

These are families under the care of social workers, who vet each item that goes on the platform.

Useful Resources

Table of resources on KampungSpirit

Visit the live site to donate:	https://kampungspirit.gov.sg
To find out more about how KampungSpirit came about:	Straits Times Article
For a slideshow presentation on KampungSpirit:	KampungSpirit 2024
Kind words from the public:	Wall of Appreciation
Testimonials from social workers:	Social Worker Testimonials

Status (as of 15 Feb 2024)

$12.6k raised from 139 unique donors in 20 days
37 requests fulfilled
35 FSCs listing items on KS, 14 already benefited from funded listings
220 subscribers in telegram
The goal was to raise enough to fulfill 5 items by the end of the month, but we launched quite late, on 26th Jan 2024
- By 31st Jan 2024 (5 days later), we had already raised $3k, and funded 13 items

Background info

47 FSCs, ~15 SWs per FSC, 40 cases each
- 28,200 in-need households in SG, out of a 1.7M total
- in contrast, 1.7M households in SG. So 28,200 is not even 2% of all households in SG.
- The bottom 10% of households earned $2,314 monthly, while the top 10% earned $31,430 monthly
Our hypotheses: The general public can more than cover the needs of the bottom 10%. $200 for a wheelchair is a lot for 1 donor, but just 20c for a kampung of 1,000.

And so far the hypothesis has been proven true. 90% of donations came from people who are not direct friends and family, but who were moved by the stories we told on KampungSpirit.