The reporter Ang Yiting, whose brother studies at SMU, cited SMU as an example for the other universities to follow. She wrote of how 7,000 students at SMU, each needing to complete at least 80 hours of community service work, would contribute to at least 560,000 hours over their four years in university. If this were to be evenly distributed across the 400 local volunteer welfare organisations, each organisation would benefit from 1,400 community service hours in four years, equivalent to 350 hours per year. This would help ease the manpower shortage issue currently faced by many welfare organisations.
Lianhe Zaobao