by Abriel | May 4, 2020 | 2020, What Inspires You?, Zero Hunger
Every weekday, social enterprise Glyph delivers free lunch and dinner to 50 children and their families living in rental flats in Bukit Merah. The meals include rice with meat and vegetables, noodles or burgers. The initiative, which started on 20 April, aims to ease...
by Abriel | May 4, 2020 | 2020, What Inspires You?, Zero Hunger
In the midday heat, Mr Bernard Teo and his team are handing out free food packs to a long queue that stretches along the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple in Chinatown. It takes the trio about 15 minutes to give out all 110 lunch meals to the needy. Since 8 April, the day...
by Abriel | May 4, 2020 | 2020, No Poverty
More than 50,000 people, including migrant workers, will receive supermarket vouchers or other necessities with a $1.23 million donation by OCBC Bank. The bank said in a statement on 28 April that it will be providing 1,000 Singaporean families with $800 in...
by Abriel | May 3, 2020 | 2020, What Inspires You?, Zero Hunger
After learning that some delivery rider friends were getting by on just S$30 of income a day as the COVID-19 crisis deepened, freelance food caterer Mohd Razib, 55, decided to help out by providing meals for them and private hire drivers. So four weeks ago, Mr Razib...
by Abriel | May 2, 2020 | 2020, Quality Education, What Inspires You?
Before home-based learning (HBL) kicked in, schools were worried that children who came from disadvantaged homes would start lagging behind their peers. Schools prepared by finding out which students needed laptops and tablets. Teachers also made arrangements for a...
