Healthcare frontline workers have been receiving donations of face masks, cooked food and other care packages in acknowledgement of their efforts.
On 14 May, a group of them received an unexpected gift: locally grown fresh vegetables.
Social enterprise City Sprouts harvested 750 stalks of leafy vegetables such as cai xin and nai bai from its farm and presented them to healthcare workers of Ng Teng Fong General Hospital.
City Sprouts has committed to growing 6,000 stalks of leafy vegetables for more than 500 front-line staff at the hospital by the end of July.
The vegetables are grown at City Sprouts’ 9,000 sqm urban farm Sprout Hub, located at the former Henderson Secondary School.
Global shoe company Bata also launched a worldwide initiative to give a million pairs of shoes to healthcare workers, volunteers and their families.
Bata is currently working with local hospitals to facilitate this, but did not provide more details.
It also produces face masks, face shields and protective equipment for healthcare workers under its “Bata Heroes” project and made donations of food, hygienic products or funds through the Bata Children’s Programme and the Bata Shoe Foundation.
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Source: The Straits Times, 15 May 2020