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The Yellow Ribbon Project (funded by the Yellow Ribbon Fund) was launched by former president of Singapore S.R. Nathan in an attempt to create awareness of the need to give second chances to ex-offenders, and to generate acceptance of ex-offenders and their families in communities. It attempts to foster community action to support the rehabilitation and reintegration of ex-offenders.
Examples of implementation include inmates to sign up skill training courses and voluntarily removing tattoos to renounce gang affiliations . Through learning skills, ex-offenders are able to integrate better into the society by taking up jobs and thus preventing them from making the same mistakes again.
It was reported that by 2008 through awareness of the program in Singapore, 560 new employers had registered to offer jobs for ex-offenders.
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