by Abriel | Jul 25, 2018 | 2018, Good Health & Well-being, What Inspires You?
Between juggling his job as a surgeon at Dream Plastic Surgery Clinic, his responsibilities as a visiting consultant at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) and helping children smile again, Associate Professor Vincent Yeow has little time to himself....
by Abriel | Jul 25, 2018 | 2018, What Inspires You?
For more than 20 years, Li De Yan helped to build Singapore with his bare hands. During the growing years of Singapore’s construction sector in the 1970s and 80s, he mixed cement, laid bricks and built houses across the country. And for the past two decades, the...
by Abriel | Jul 22, 2018 | 2018, Sustainable Cities & Communities
Opening one’s home to welcome a foster child is laudable enough. But what does it take to foster a child with special needs? A common perception is that raising one’s own child who has physical or intellectual disabilities is challenging enough. But some...
by Abriel | Jul 18, 2018 | 2018, Reduced Inequalities
The Autism Resource Centre (ARC) has opened its first social enterprise cafe, Professor Brawn Cafe, in a school. The outlet, which is located at Raffles Institution (RI), was officially opened by Education Minister Ong Ye Kung on Wednesday (Jul 18). The cafe provides...
by Abriel | Jul 17, 2018 | 2018, Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, What Inspires You?
When Becca Hume was 16, she got a part-time job where she met a deaf person for the first time. “I realised how isolated he was at work, so I started learning sign language to be able to talk to him properly,” she says. It made her understand the daily frustrations...
