IMPACT 0546: SIMPLIFYING THE PROGRESSIVE WAGE MODEL FOR ALL

Youth Action Challenge (YAC) is a platform for youth to provide solutions that tackle the issues we are concerned about. Since October 2021, over 80 teams and more than 310 youths have undertaken the YAC Season 3 journey.

Ian Go, 18, is currently a student at Victoria Junior College and a member of Wage Warriors, a project that he, together with a group of friends, initiated in YAC Season 3 to raise awareness on the Progressive Wage Model.

Today, he shares more about his role in the YAC and what the Wage Warriors are hoping to achieve!

The main task at hand for me was the website development, as well as the aesthetics of the website. I had to ideate and check the functionality of the website – ensuring that it was friendly for people of all ages. Besides that, I think all of us played a role in encouraging one another as a team and a group of friends, and really pushed through even with our hectic schedule in school.

Honestly, it was my classmates who had asked me to join YAC together with them. If it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t have known about YAC. Seeing the impact and the determination everyone had motivated me to continue in this YAC journey.

I think overall, my experience was quite a positive one. Meeting up and discussing our solutions and topics were quite fun for me. Needless to say, it was quite fulfilling, especially after we presented during the open pitch session and got to share our project with others.

I think the main challenge was deciding on a topic that was suited to our group. We had to change topics that we targeted at the start as we really had no idea how to tackle some of them.

We hope that through our project, more lower wage workers can easily upskill and rise up the wage ladder with the proper knowledge on how to do so, with the new easy to access and manoeuvre website that we created.