The Samaritans of Singapore which is set up in 1 December 1969 is a nonprofit and non religious organization. It aims to prevent suicide and provide 24 hours emotional support to people who are facing depression and are suicidal. They also provide a listening ear to everyone in crisis.
Their vision is to be an available lifeline for everyone in crisis.
Their mission is provides 24 hours emotional support by trained volunteers to people in crisis,thinking of suicide or affected by suicide.
In other words, they want to prevent suicide through talks for the community,they also want to intervene directly with a suicidal person which is why they have the 24 hours hot line and face to face counseling. They also want to help people who are affected by suicide by providing emotional support.
This is the website of Samaritans of Singapore.In my opinion the web presence is bad because it is complicating.The visitors who visit this site are mostly people who wants help. So by having a complicated website will make the people feel more stress and suicidal. Not just that,people who are not familiar with the web will have a difficulty operating it.
Other than that we did not know if they will update the website. The website also does not have social media like Facebook,Twitter etc for people to know more about Samaritans of Singapore.
This is the statistics of social media usage in Singapore. It is shown that Facebook is the most popular. With that i suggested that Samaritans of Singapore need to use social media to create awareness to the community. Since Facebook is the most popular, SOS can create a group in Facebook where people can join and know about the organization.
SOS also can create account in YouTube where they can upload videos of their campaigns and events and also informations about their organization. Not only that they can upload videos of people experiences who are affected by suicide and people who have decided not to commit suicide. This way it is effective and may help other people who are suicidal to change their ways.
They can also share their experiences through blogs like WordPress,Blogger or Tumblr. Twitter is a easy way to updatetheir organization and also ionteract with other people by answering questions.
With that i think Samaritans of Singapore can be widely exposed to the public by creating awareness. And also they can find volunteers easily. Since not many really find their website, social media tools are very efficient in helping them to find volunteers all over Singapore.In other words, social media is important and beneficial to the organization in order to promote it.
Reference:www.samaritans.org.sg/
