CAPE – Page 2 – Community for Advocacy & Political Education

COMMUNITY

We are an independent and non-partisan community of students with diverse backgrounds and interests in a wide range of civil society work

We are a platform for fostering active citizenry and facilitating accessible engagement for local civil society

We seek to raise critical consciousness of fellow students and Singaporeans, and build capacity for political literacy and civic participation.

Daryl Yang speaking at CAPE’s International Human Rights Advocacy Seminar in March 2018

Our Founding
CAPE, or the Community for Advocacy & Political Education – a student organisation based in Yale-NUS College – was founded in 2017 by students from Yale-NUS College and the Law Faculty of the National University of Singapore (NUS). Since then, we have grown to a large, cohesive collective of students from various faculties and colleges across NUS with a diverse range of interests and civic causes.
Our Mission
We are an independent and non-partisan community of students that examines local and global affairs relating to civil society, and provide avenues for Singaporeans to contribute constructively to our civic life. We are also focused on raising civic consciousness and building capacity for political literacy in order to make civil participation more accessible.
Our Vision
We envision a Singapore where citizens are politically conscious and are proactively engaged in civil society, policy making, and social change. We also hope to continue to empower and build a democratic society, based on justice and equality.