by Abriel | Aug 9, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
Watching the National Day parade and hanging the Singapore flag from your window are ways to stoke national pride, but creative director Sharon Goh believes you do not have to wait until August to wear patriotism on your sleeve. Ms Goh, who works for creative agency...
by Abriel | Aug 9, 2020 | 2020, Good Health & Well-being, What Inspires You?
Writing once saved Nicole’s life. Now, she is using it to help others. In 2011, struggling with major depression and generalised anxiety disorder, it was penning a suicide note that brought her back from the brink. Her brush with death led her to seek out a new...
by Abriel | Aug 9, 2020 | 2020, What Inspires You?, Zero Hunger
After befriending elderly residents living alone in her Yio Chu Kang neighbourhood, housewife Diljan Shaik Arif Ali found that many prefer to have home-cooked fare. She started cooking simple dishes such as rice, mixed vegetables and non-spicy curry chicken for about...
by Abriel | Aug 6, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
Orange Valley Nursing Homes is donating $30,000 worth of assistive devices and face masks to the underprivileged, to commemorate the nation’s 55th birthday. The move is part of its corporate social responsibility outreach initiative, Protecting You & Our...
by Abriel | Aug 4, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities
Two Singaporeans have started a movement to support families here in opening up their homes to provide refuge for those facing a crisis. Twenty families have signed up with the Open Home Network, a volunteer movement officially launched in June. These host families...
by Abriel | Aug 4, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
When Okorn-Kuo Jing Hong began directing a cast with disabilities in the theatre show What If, she wanted the work to respect the performers’ disabilities without trying to cover them up. Actors who cannot see could orientate themselves by feeling markings on...
