by Abriel | Jan 15, 2019 | 2019, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
Prior to receiving her O-level results, the Crescent Girls’ School student, Benecia Tang, 16 had secured a place in Singapore Polytechnic’s (SP) School of Business. When she was in Secondary 3, Benecia started a project on community marketplace app...
by Abriel | Dec 30, 2018 | 2018, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
For her birthday party next month, Sasha Marimuttu wants her friends to donate money to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) instead of giving her presents. Sasha, an only child who turned seven last Friday, and her mother have started a...
by Abriel | Dec 19, 2018 | 2018, Causes Week 2018, Good Health & Well-being
When 24-year-old Hayyu Nariah Nasir was still at university, she saw many of her peers volunteering at orphanages and old folks’ homes, whereas hardly any seemed to be reaching out to the mental health institutions. “There’s a stigma attached,”...
by Abriel | Dec 19, 2018 | 2018, Causes Week 2018, Climate Action
It started as a school paper on local waste management that earned three Nanyang Technological University (NTU) undergraduates an ‘A’ grade last year (2017). But it didn’t end there as the trio saw real-life potential in it. In less than a year, the engineering...
by Abriel | Dec 18, 2018 | 2018, Causes Week 2018, Sustainable Cities & Communities
It was frustration that first spurred Miss Elisa Lim to take up sewing. At 16, she suffered a serious knee injury and had to sit out the netball competition season as well as her Grade 7 ballet examinations. “I was in a wheelchair for three months and I could...
