About Us

Wicare offers grief counselling, group therapy, befriending services, and programmes for widows and fatherless children. As well as extending a hand in the areas of financial and educational support to them.

Having supported over 1,100 widows and 1,700 fatherless children in our past 28 years of being in this social service landscape.

Wicare remains the only dedicated support organisation in Singapore specifically addressing the multifaceted needs of widows and their families that provides specialised, comprehensive structured interventions specifically designed for the complex journey of spousal loss.

This journey has left its mark. I see the invisible stigmata of widowhood writ large upon my life. I am not the same person since that fateful day in 1985.

I have wept more tears than I thought one could ever produce. I have been held close by God and my friends and held them close in return. I have been blessed with sisters of the heart and soul, who have been my stalwart companions on this broken road of loss and grief. We have held each other’s hands through life’s journey – even in the days of depth, misery and mourning – we helped each other achieve resilience and new hope.

I have watched Wicare grow steadily to become the respected support group that it is today and am deeply grateful to our advisors, sponsors, volunteers and committee members who have worked so tirelessly over the years to ensure Wicare’s continuity and growth.

I hope you will find things here that will serve you well and bring hope, healing, comfort and companionship on your own journey.

– Joyce Lye