A Public Education Initiative
By Students for Students
To Spark
A Social Movement for
Raising Awareness About
Relationship-based Violence
Ngee Ann Polytechnic
04-06 November 2009
1200-1300hrs
Our Facebook Site for the Campaign:
http://tinyurl.com/STOPCampaigNP
Our WordPress Site for the STOPMotion! Competition (Registration NOW OPEN!):
http://stopmotion09.wordpress.com/
Our Facebook Site for the STOP Party:
http://tinyurl.com/STOPParty
Lunchtime Programme featuring
Concerts
Skits
Talks
Exhibitions
Fund-Raisers
Daily Programmes
From Talk to Action
The students did not want just a talk-shop, a fancy conference where nothing meaningful and concrete would have been done for the victims of spousal violence after the crowds had dispersed and the euphoria subsided.
They knew that they could do more:
Campaigns, research, fund-raising …
A flicker of awareness is a tiny step towards the full flame of knowledge, empowering an individual to protect himself or herself against any future abuse.
An inch of understanding gained is an inch closer to establishing effective intervention programmes.
A dollar raised is a dollar more for the VWOs battling to help victims out there.
To accomplish the above, the 11 students on the Conference Executive Committee worked with nearly 30 other student leaders to organise this multi-faceted S.T.O,P! Campaign.
The acronym S.T.O,P! is coined by Grace Yow and Denise Wong.
S.T.O,P! = “Stop the ‘Ouch’, Please!”
The tagline of the STOP Campaign is “Love Hurts, Love Heals.“
The Story Behind the Campaign Logo
The traditional way of spelling an acronym is to use periods between the letters. For example, S.T.O,P! should be spelled S.T.O.P. according to grammatical convention. However, for the purpose of the S.T.O,P! Campaign, the conventional has been deliberately overturned and grammatical rules flouted to serve two purposes. The first is to draw attention to the word STOP. The second, at a more symbolic level, is to challenge us to look beyond the obvious to an exploration of deeper meanings. We are culturally programmed to look away when we witness an incident of relationship violence and to label such an occurrence a domestic matter and therefore, none of our business. However, it is precisely this practice that has resulted in the social isolation of the victims of relationship-violence. The “,” and the “!” thus force us to question accepted norms and to set them aside to reveal the stories of relationship-violence hidden beneath.
Campaign Organising Committee
Geraldine Lee Mei Yee
Jolin Ong
Loh Chuan Junn
Kathy Hang Pei Fang
Crystal Tilini Nanayakara
Dawn Lazaroo
Lim Siew Rong
Kate Chan Yu Qing
S.T.O,P! Charity Party Organising Committee
Grace Yow Yuen Gee
Denise Wong Lee Ching
Sponsorship Collaborations
Holiday Inn
Salon Esprit (Tel:63769578)
SWTS Pte Ltd
Litho Engineering Pte Ltd (No Logo)
MR Tan Teong Siah (Individual Donor)
