by Abriel | Feb 2, 2017 | 2017, Sustainable Cities & Communities
Sign language differs between countries, and the language used here is the Singapore Sign Language (SgSL) which has developed over the past 60 years as a result of working with people who are deaf and of different backgrounds. In SgSL, there are signs for local food,...
by Abriel | Feb 1, 2017 | 2017, Sustainable Cities & Communities
An events and conference organiser by day, Mr Irza Fauzan Suprapto becomes a football coach on Thursday nights at a street soccer court. The players in his team are aged seven to 16, who comes mostly from lower-income families, living in HDB blocks and nearby estates....
by Christie Lee | Jan 31, 2017 | 2017, Good Health & Well-being
While Singaporeans are living longer, they are also having fewer children, who are the traditional caregivers. This puts many elderlies at risk of neglect. During their scenario-planning exercise, the Institute of Policy Studies focused on strategies surrounding...
by Abriel | Jan 28, 2017 | 2017, Good Health & Well-being
A group of innovative Temasek Polytechnic final-year engineering students has developed ideas that are targeted at the elderly who have mobility problems. They took existing products and made small improvements to it, so that everyday devices used by the elderly...
by Abriel | Jan 27, 2017 | 2017, Global, Zero Hunger
There are about 1.3 billion tonnes of food waste the world generates each year. the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations affirms that food waste in Europe alone could feed approximately 200 million people. For the past decade, 86-year-old Dino...
