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...
by Abriel | Dec 18, 2018 | 2018, ST Singaporean of the Year 2018, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
Mr Robert Chew was 18 and on his way to donate blood when he noticed a girl and her mother at the entrance of Singapore General Hospital staring at the people walking in. He walked up to the girl and asked her why she was there. Nervous and flustered, she said her...
by Abriel | Dec 18, 2018 | 2018, Causes Week 2018, Sustainable Cities & Communities
The Art Faculty has famous customers – Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s wife Ho Ching sported a dinosaur motif pouch and clutch created by one of its artists at international events – but it had humble beginnings. Run by the Autism Resource Centre...
