by Abriel | Apr 27, 2020 | 2020, What Inspires You?, Zero Hunger
Food firm TiffinLabs, co-founded by billionaire Kishin R.K., has set up a charitable foundation to give free meals to the needy during the Covid-19 crisis. The TiffinLabs Food is Love Foundation has partnered charity Free Food For All to distribute, as a start, 20,000...
by Abriel | Apr 26, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
Local celebrities are stepping up in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, which has shut many businesses and entertainment venues in Singapore. Television presenter Diana Ser launched charity campaign ShowWeCareSG on 15 April to raise $250,000 in a month for...
by Abriel | Apr 23, 2020 | 2020, What Inspires You?, Zero Hunger
Lee Ray Sheng was thrilled when his fried beehoon stall opened for business at the end of February. For the 20-year-old computer science undergraduate at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Raydy Beehoon, which opened into the wee hours of the morning, was a...
by Abriel | Apr 20, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
Community groups have launched an online platform to help low-income families whose plight during the coronavirus pandemic was featured in The Straits Times on 19 Apr. It noted the systematic gaps that these families face such as food insecurity and low wages. These...
by Abriel | Apr 20, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
A group of volunteers has launched a campaign to encourage Singaporeans to be more welcoming when migrant workers are relocated to housing estates in a bid to curtail the coronavirus. The initiative – Welcome In My Backyard (Wimby) – is a direct response...
by Abriel | Apr 18, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
More than 120 people, including Singaporeans living overseas, wrote in to offer help after reading about 17-year-old Loh Miao Xin and her family in The Straits Times. First-year polytechnic student Miao Xin had shared that her mother was jobless, as the coronavirus...
