by Abriel | Apr 20, 2020 | 2020, Quality Education
Madam Nur Hidayah Shahrudin used to take her son Rizq to parks or to Changi Airport every week so he could practise walking with his pacer gait in large open spaces. But as social distancing and circuit breaker measures were put in place in recent weeks, her...
by Abriel | Apr 20, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities
Firms, charities and donors have come together to donate 1.3 million reusable cloth masks to Singapore’s migrant workers under a community initiative called MaskForce. The masks, which have a filter pocket, also come with 650,000 surgical masks that can be...
by Abriel | Apr 20, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
A group of volunteers has launched a campaign to encourage Singaporeans to be more welcoming when migrant workers are relocated to housing estates in a bid to curtail the coronavirus. The initiative – Welcome In My Backyard (Wimby) – is a direct response...
by Abriel | Apr 19, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities
Charities and social enterprises here are striving to keep helping the needy amid the COVID-19 crisis by adapting their services to comply with the circuit breaker restrictions and cope with dwindling volunteer numbers. But they warn that some low-income families may...
by Abriel | Apr 19, 2020 | 2020, No Poverty
Lina (not her real name), 42, smiled as she watched her four children playing in the family’s single-room rental flat in Jalan Kukoh. But that smile disappeared as she laid out the family’s expenses. Her husband Adam (also not his real name), 54, usually brings...
