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Podcast: socialservice.sg presents: "Before the Ballot"
Episode: #GE2020 Raising socio-political literacy and civic engagement in Singapore (CAPEโs Huang Runchen and Joel Yew)
Description: In "Whatโs going on with young voters?โ, we chat with young Singaporean voters on their perspectives as well as their constituency observations.
CAPE, or the Community for Advocacy and Political Education, is a student-run organisation based at Yale-NUS College. This independent, non-partisan community of students works to increase political literacy and consciousness, and it does so through different project-based initiatives. They include seminars, conferences, and workshops, as well as producing resources, infographics, and research. Today, I speak to coordinators Huang Runchen and Joel Yew, who share how they got started, their projects, and CAPEโs future aspira...