by Abriel | Apr 27, 2019 | 2019, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
Every week or so, a group of volunteers has been visiting female inmates with young children to record them reading storybooks. They will also visit the children to play the audio recordings, so that the children hear their mothers’ voices as the books are read...
by Abriel | Apr 18, 2019 | 2019, Sustainable Cities & Communities
In the formal Straits Ballroom of Fullerton Hotel, a small boy bounds onto the stage to shake the hand of Speaker of Parliament Tan Chuan-Jin, drawing the loudest applause from an audience of smartly dressed adults. He poses next to the photograph that his father...
by Abriel | Apr 17, 2019 | 2019, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
Mr Selva Raju Arumugam has a “happy-go-lucky” family who would spend weekends together, as well as with their extended families. But it all came to an abrupt halt when he was 15. His mother, who suffered from serious complications of diabetes, had come...
by Abriel | Apr 14, 2019 | 2019, Quality Education
When school lets out for the day, it’s another beginning for Nelson Horine. His students take geometry when other people are eating dinner. They learn Spanish or history as the sun goes down. The classes are small, and the stakes are high. Most struggled in typical...
by Abriel | Apr 14, 2019 | 2019, Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, What Inspires You?
Singapore’s first food bank fed 1,000 people in need yesterday at its inaugural community engagement event. The Food Bank Singapore (FBSG), which was established in 2012 with an aim to be the organisation that centrally coordinates all food donations in...
by Abriel | Apr 11, 2019 | 2019, Quality Education
A workgroup will be set up by the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) to look at how to better integrate children with learning needs into pre-schools. The group will be made up of representatives from community groups, voluntary welfare organisations, as...
