CIB Ambassador Award 2010
Download the nomination form here to nominate someone for the CIB Ambassador Award 2010.
Completed entry forms can be sent by post to the following address:
The Secretary
'Community in Bloom’ Ambassador Awards 2010
C/o The National Parks Board
Headquarters (Raffles Building)
1 Cluny Road
Singapore 259569
You may also send completed entries to the following email address:
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Closing date for entries: 15 Sep 2010
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Who can qualify as CIB Ambassador?
CIB Ambassador Award individual nominations are obtained from the existing pool of volunteers of Community In Bloom (CIB Friends) as well as from third party nominations.
What are the Judging Criteria?
Nominated individuals must have the qualities to have performed or possess the following
Promote the love for gardening
For example:
- Organised initiatives that resulted in greater awareness towards the benefits of gardening
- Engaged the public to spread gardening during road shows, exhibitions, community
events, websites, blogs, etc
Spread gardening knowledge to the community
For example:
- Organised or facilitated gardening seminars, talks or sharing sessions.
- Provided gardening tips through articles in media, web-based gardening blogs or forums, opening-up community gardens for learning, etc
- Conducted or hosted learning visits to gardens, connected community gardening
groups, etc
Facilitate gardening-based community projects
For example:
Helped community groups in housing estates, schools and organisations to set up or
sustain their gardening projects through providing guidance, resources, materials, etc
Positive conduct
Conducted themselves in a manner that resulted in a sustained positive impact on
gardening
Community in Bloom Ambassador Award 09
The CIB Ambassadors Award recognizes individuals who have contributed through various means and channels to foster the love for gardening to the people in Singapore. CIB Ambassadors are volunteers with passion, who go the extra mile to spread the gardening bug and help others enjoy gardening. They contribute time, effort and/or resources regularly and actively engage with the community to facilitate the community’s gardening-based initiatives.
Meet your friendly CIB Ambassadors 2009
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 Albert Quek
“Gardening is a real stress buster; it gives us a break from the rush of life”
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Mr Albert Quek is a very enthusiastic person who has great initiative. He single-handly set up DIY Vertical Garden at Singapore Garden Festival 08. His family members are just as passionate as him, together, they participated in the festival over 8 days. Working in an Engineering company, his interest for engineered green walls is reflected through his talks at SICEX 2009 and his DIY vertical garden. In addition, he helped promote gardening to MNC and corporations and convince them that gardening can help in staff productivity. |
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 Gina Ong Liat Wah
“The satisfying and proud feeling of being able to harvest fresh herbs and vegetables for your cooking, and flowers
for your table setting is simply fantastic!”
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Mdm Gina Ong Liat Wah is an energetic and driven lady. She successfully galvanised and led her neighbours at Marine Crescent and Laguna Park to initiate and sustain their own Award winning gardening projects which positively impacted the two communities. The two gardens were used as fine examples for others to model after it. In addition, her creativity is evident from roadshow displays that help created enormous awareness. |
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 Helen Chan Jiat Mui
“Take care of your plants as you would do to a growing child. Love your plants and they will bring you joy”
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Helen made full use of her school garden to guide schools in the Eastern cluster in their own gardening projects. In addition to sharing ideas with students, she also trained teachers of other school clusters, who turn taught their own students about gardening. The roadshows and exhibitions conducted in other schools helped explain the connection between gardening and environmental conservation to the young, thereby creating a positive image about gardening to them. |
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 Kwoh Toh
“The greatest joy of gardening is seeing the fruit of our labour and flower flourish!”
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Mdm Kwoh Toh, 81 with her infectious smile and positive attitude have inspired every one around her to live a fuller life by her own active lifestyle. Her dedication and commitment to promote gardening, evident at the roadshows and garden festivals that she took part, have inspired other gardening groups to do more in their efforts to promote gardening. |
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 Richmond Tan
“You don’t need to be botanist to do gardening, just like you don’t need to be engineer in order to use a mobile phone.”
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Richmond captured the attention of the young curious minds by introducing carnivorous plants through his outreach initiatives. His gardening blog is a platform for knowledge sharing about gardening and an avenue to broadcast his knowledge and skill in gardening. His continuous effort to promote gardening among young people will create a more appreciative future generation. |
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 Sharif Ahmad Jusuf
“Gardening together is a great way for people of all races and culture to get to know each other better”
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Sharif led a pioneering community gardening project in a Mosque. His work has inspired many other organization to embark on similar projects. He also promotes inter-religion communication by welcoming visitors to view his garden in the mosque. In addition, he conducts talks for diverse interest groups to promote gardening. |
Meet your friendly CIB Ambassadors 2008
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 Kamisah Bte Atan
"Gardening brings back the ‘kampung’ spirit"
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Kamisah Bte Atan is the chairperson of the gardening club of Jurong Central Zone “G” Residents’ Committee. A housewife who finds time to help others, her passion for gardening motivated her to travel daily from her home in Bukit Panjang to her community garden in Jurong. Her amiable personality won over many HDB dwellers to take up gardening. As such she is an indispensable leader to her team of octogenarian gardeners. Kamisah worked hard to overcome her language difficulties and writing skills to write blog articles in encouragement to her fellow gardeners. |
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 Normala Bte Alias
"Plants bring life and joy…Love them! Treasure them!"
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Normala Bte Alias is a teacher and the chairperson of the Environmental Committee in Kranji Secondary School. She set up a resource centre for native plants in her school which benefited the communities in the South West area. She demonstrated that schools could make use of their gardens for fun and engaging learning. Normala harnessed her students’ creativity to make the school a centre of attraction during events and activities that helped to promote the love for gardening. |
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 Philip Li
“I realised that plants are just like my students, it is what we perceive that restricts them”
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Philip Li, 27, is the programme coordinator of The Association for Persons with Special Needs (APSN). Philip started out as a chef with no gardening knowledge. In spite of that, he struggled to incorporate gardening into rehabilitation programmes to integrate the intellectually-challenged into the working society. Through the learning process, Philip taught and helped many to set up their own gardens and demonstrated that gardens need not be expensive by using discarded, recycled materials to do up his award winning garden. |
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 Richard Ashworth
“It’s a pleasure to see plants germinate and bloom into flowers!”
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Richard Ashworth, 54, is the chairperson of the landscaping committee of Ivory Heights Condominium. He endeavored to transformed what was once a wilting garden into a blooming one that attracted visitors from as far as Japan and Australia. A sculptor in practice, he used his innovative work to enhance his exemplary garden, and inspired others to improve the standard of garden quality and aesthetics. |
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 Rosalind Tan
“It’s my duty to spread the green message”
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Rosalind Tan, 68, is the chairperson of the gardening group and member of the green committee in Alexandra Hospital. She demonstrated how institutions and organisations could turn workplaces into gardens. In the process she influenced a wide range of groups who also became award winners for their gardens. Rosalind created a niche out of using the hospital as an icon, to spread the gardening message. |
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 Wilson Wong
“Gardening is for everyone"
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Wilson Wong, 29, is the founder and administrator of Green Culture Singapore. He created channels for people to learn about plants and gardening through his blogs, articles, forums and media appearances with a far reaching national audience. This started a buzz within the gardening fraternity with a whole new community of online gardeners. |
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