by Abriel | Oct 7, 2018 | 2018, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
For eight years from Primary 3 to Secondary 4, Nigel Ng did not speak a word to his classmates in school. After being scolded and punished by his teachers for talking too much or too loudly in class in Primary 2, he began to believe that talking was an unpardonable...
by Abriel | Oct 5, 2018 | 2018, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
After the loss of his grandfather to lung cancer in 2015, Mr Aloysius Moh wanted to find a way to help people with chronic illnesses. “This feeling of not wanting others to go through the same thing I went through triggered something in me. I wanted to help...
by Abriel | Sep 28, 2018 | 2018, Sustainable Cities & Communities
When it opens in 2022, the new Rainbow Centre campus will feature an area modelled on real-world environments such as shops and other community spaces. The new campus will be able to serve 300 students with autism aged between seven and 18. Dubbed Social Town, this...
by Abriel | Sep 26, 2018 | 2018, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
The day is etched in her memory. Ms Crystal Goh woke up one morning in April 2011 and could not muster a decipherable word. “It sounded like I was having a very bad sore throat. Like I was being strangled,” she said. “People couldn’t understand...
by Abriel | Sep 17, 2018 | 2018, Responsible Consumption & Production, What Inspires You?
It was SG Food Rescue’s third food wastage awareness drive – an event where they distribute “rescued” food items that are edible but were thrown out by suppliers. About 800kg of food was given away to more than 200 members of the public in two...
by Abriel | Sep 15, 2018 | 2018, Zero Hunger
Single mother Indrapathi Sugumaran, 33, has been receiving vegetables, fruits and meat every Sunday for the past two months from Singapore Red Cross volunteers. “It makes a difference to us because we get to have chicken or fish weekly now instead of twice a...
