SCS has been helping needy cancer patients. Since 1964, through the Welfare Financial Aid Funding programme, free transportation for patients undergoing treatment and the SCS Cancer Treatment Fund.

The Welfare department also organises social activities for welfare patients and their families, for instance:

• Chinese New Year “Hong Bao” distribution
• Spring cleaning by students from Temasek Polytechnic
• Year-end outing and Christmas party for support groups
• Excursion to Sentosa for cancer patients and their families, courtesy of Johnson & Johnson and The Singapore Petroleum Company
• Gift distributions from Winston Engineering and other generous donors
• Christmas gift distribution by Johnson & Johnson and Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS)  

In addition, the department also administers the SCS Help the Children and Youth Programme, Jonathan Tan Fund, Tan Geok Tian Bursary and Joan Chan Shu Fang fund.

SCS Help the Children and Youth Programme

The SCS Help the Children and Youth Programme aims to help children and youths whose lives have been affected by cancer. Support will be provided in these areas – the school allowance grant and bursary schemes, home tuition service, group intervention workshops and family engagement programmes. The financial assistance to help defray schooling expenses will ease the burden on the families whose finances are already strained due to the illness. Group intervention workshops and family engagement programmes will provide psycho-social support to these children and youths who are often confronted with a range of emotions such as fears, depression, guilt or anger when coping with cancer or a sick parent.

Jonathan Tan Fund

Financial assistance is offered to children and youth aged 18 years old and below, and are diagnosed with leukemia.

Joan Chan Shu Fang Fund

Set up in memory of the ex-Raffles Girls School student who succumbed to tongue cancer, the initial sum of $157,746 raised by her classmates for Joan’s treatment has been transferred to SCS after her demise.

SCS Satellite Station at the National Cancer Centre, Singapore (NCCS)

Inaugurated in 2005, cancer patients can apply for cancer treatment assistance under the SCS Cancer Treatment Fund. At the Satellite station, our welfare executives work closely with medical social workers to further assist patients referred to us by medical oncologists. Services available at the station include:

• Seeking information on cancer support groups
• Getting educational pamphlets about specific cancer types
• Getting information about the services provided by SCS
• Seeking any other assistance from volunteer cancer survivors
• Screening of patients for and under the Cancer Treatment Fund
• Ad hoc cancer counselling