Project Red

Project RED is a partnership between Singapore Red Cross Community Resilience Department and LKC, distinct from NTU Red Cross Chapter.

Project RED was founded on two distinct needs: Firstly, the dire need in Singapore Red Cross for a constant pool of trained volunteers to contribute to their medical initiatives, preferably volunteers with some medical background. Secondly, the need for first aid awareness or training amongst interested medical students, especially pre-clinical medical students, providing them with hands-on experience in treating and managing patients in a pre-hospital context- a far cry from the very sterile, clinical context taught in medical school and one which is far more applicable to their daily lives.

The aim of Project RED is to equip and certify medical students from LKC with Standard First Aid + AED skills for FREE in return for them serving a minimum of 24hrs in the medical-centric initiatives of the Singapore Red Cross Community Resilience Department, while doing first aid advocacy.

Initiatives which volunteers can expect to help include Community First Aid, where volunteers assist in numerous events islandwide;

• First Aid on Wheels: Routine coverage of East Coast Park, Sentosa and Ubin. In collaboration with Singapore Red Cross, we open two FAoW shifts per month for volunteers to be introduced to the real-life provision of first aid in a safe and controlled environment under the supervision of more senior volunteers.

• HOME+: Dedicated and highly-trained volunteers can also help as a Community Responder through HOME+, where volunteers sign up for shifts to respond in the event of medical alerts from at-risk elderly living alone.

• Ad-hoc events such as National Deaf Games, OCBC Cycle, National Day Parade