Due to the Coronavirus outbreak in Singapore, the school shut down, and our service was put on pause for few weeks, until only 3 weeks ago when we began to have weekly online meetings to discuss our plans for the rest of the G11 and after we come back in G12. We predict that going back to pre-COVID19 status will be impossible in a short future, meaning that we will no longer be able to contribute to the sustainable economy around Singapore by physically helping out at local events, which used to be our most favoured method of promoting recycling within the local community. It is still possible for some of us staying in Singapore to contribute to local recycling days, however we understood that doing so will allow us to achieve our service goals, however it would be unethical for us to put the Singaporean citizens under the threat of COVID-19 for our own sustainability goal (LO7). However, this shouldn’t mean that our service will stop working towards the global issue of environmental sustainability around Singapore, so we as a group decided to improve the digital portfolio of our service, which will help us get in contact with new local NGOs that may be willing to do something during this hard time of the global pandemic. We have written a questionnaire for every member to respond to, which will be combined together to write a description of our service’s missions, goals, partners etc (LO4).

WE have already had 3 virtual meetings to discuss these, and it has been quite successful as we had a solid 90 minutes to only talk to each other about our passions and commitment, which was rare back when we were doing offline meetings, due to various realistic reasons including people chatting while others are talking about work, or not having time to discuss the missions of the service as one big group, since some have gone for a local service trip. I feel like I have further learned and understood the value of collaborative work during the online virtual meeting (LO5), which I wish to utilize this in other areas to form stronger bonds with other people.