by Abriel | May 15, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
Healthcare frontline workers have been receiving donations of face masks, cooked food and other care packages in acknowledgement of their efforts. On 14 May, a group of them received an unexpected gift: locally grown fresh vegetables. Social enterprise City Sprouts...
by Abriel | May 15, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
For the past two weeks, Dr Somrita Ganchoudhuri has been conducting short livestreams on Facebook in Bengali dialects to keep the Bangladeshi migrant worker community up to date on the latest developments. The 33-year-old research consultant began doing this because...
by Abriel | May 13, 2020 | 2020, What Inspires You?, Zero Hunger
Inspired by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s recent Twitter message thanking those who donated meals during Ramadan, millionaire venture capitalist Ozi Amanat and his wife Asema Ahmed have donated 1,000 meals to migrant workers in quarantine through the charity Free...
by Abriel | May 12, 2020 | 2020, What Inspires You?, Zero Hunger
Packs of sweet treats are on their way to 900 beneficiaries of The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund (STSPMF) to boost their spirits during the circuit breaker period. The packs contain products from soya bean-based food and beverage retailer Mr Bean, including...
by Abriel | May 9, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
Dr Skye Yeo, 46, who is close to her 77-year-old mother, wondered how other seniors, some might be living alone, were coping with being cooped up at home during the circuit breaker period. She wanted a way to brighten up their days and came up with the idea for...
by Abriel | May 4, 2020 | 2020, What Inspires You?, Zero Hunger
Every weekday, social enterprise Glyph delivers free lunch and dinner to 50 children and their families living in rental flats in Bukit Merah. The meals include rice with meat and vegetables, noodles or burgers. The initiative, which started on 20 April, aims to ease...
