About
Us
TF X NHB Group Project: Mamma Mia!
We are a group of Year 3 NUS History students with a common interest in Mama Shops. Through the Temasek Foundation X National Heritage Board: Youth Heritage Champions Programme, we have received weeks of workshops and trainings with mentorship to craft a proposal on a digital heritage project in Singapore.
Through our efforts, we emerged amongst the Top 5 groups and were given the opportunity to actualise our proposal. Through months of hard work, contacting Mama Shop owners and brainstorming, we created this digital repository as a home for the stories from the Mama Shop owners. We want to present the stories and experiences of Mama Shops from their eyes, so that you are able to understand their place in Singapore today.
We want to express our thanks to the following groups of people as they were central in helping us actualise our project:
The Mama Shops
We would like to thank the owner of Hwa Lee Provision Store for agreeing to sit with us for an interview and allowing us to photograph your shop.
We would also like to thank the owners of Khain Aik Provision Store and Ghee Huat Provision Store for talking to us and assisting us during the research stage of our project.
Temasek Foundation and the National Heritage Board
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to actualise our project and funding it, allowing us to pick up valuable skills along the way.
Our Mentors
We are so grateful to receive guidance from our mentor, Dr Matthias Wong, as well as receiving so much guidance from the NUS Library team throughout our journey.