by Abriel | Oct 15, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
A specialised children’s agency and beefed-up counselling resources were among the proposals raised by MPs on 14 October to help vulnerable individuals and ensure that they get the support they need amid the current crisis and beyond. Mr Don Wee (Chua Chu Kang...
by Abriel | Oct 13, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
Institute of Technical Education second-year student Joel Ho spent four hours every day from March to September delivering food by bike to ease his family’s financial stress after his father, a newspaper vendor, suffered a pay cut when the pandemic hit. Earning...
by Abriel | Oct 12, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
In 2011, as a 19-year-old freshman pursuing a marketing degree at the Singapore Institute of Management, Gloria was looking forward to four years of university. But she went into a coma after collapsing at her church. Despite a slim chance of survival, Gloria defied...
by Abriel | Oct 12, 2020 | 2020, Good Health & Well-being
President Halimah Yacob welcomed the Government’s move to convene the COVID-19 Mental Wellness Taskforce, calling the national response timely and absolutely necessary. This comes as the coronavirus outbreak has disrupted people’s lives, with many losing...
by Abriel | Oct 11, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
For a couple of years now, Mr Anil David has been praying for a meaty government contract because it would be a ringing endorsement of his social enterprise Agape Connecting People – a contact centre founded by an ex-offender and which employs other...
by Abriel | Oct 11, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
Indonesian Natalia Tjahja found herself cooking for the first time in her life in April, when the coronavirus struck Indonesia and her helper had to return to her village to evade the partial lockdown in Jakarta. Learning from Youtube videos, Ms Tjahja, who ran a...
