by Abriel | Sep 22, 2019 | 2019, Good Health & Well-being, What Inspires You?
Around 70 students and members of the public discussed the increasingly pressing topics of depression and mental health at the YMCA Conversation Series 2019 held at Singapore Management University yesterday (21 Sept). The annual one-day event – now in its...
by Abriel | Aug 19, 2019 | 2019, Good Health & Well-being
A government pilot programme to help disadvantaged children up to age six will be expanded to benefit another 5,000 in the next three years, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday. KidStart, led by the Early Childhood Development Agency, was rolled out in the...
by Abriel | Aug 3, 2019 | 2019, Good Health & Well-being, What Inspires You?
When the severe acute respiratory syndrome broke out in 2003, Hu Xiaomei was touched when she saw on television the hard work of healthcare staff. Inspired by their acts, Xiaomei, who was a 19-year-old student in China at the time, enrolled in a nursing course in...
by Abriel | Jun 18, 2019 | 2019, Good Health & Well-being
Award-winning Singaporean cartoonist Sonny Liew has dealt with Singapore’s political history, dementia and depression in his works. Now, he turns his hand to an unexpected new subject: antibiotics. His next comic, The Antibiotic Tales, is a collaboration with...
by Abriel | Jun 9, 2019 | 2019, Good Health & Well-being, What Inspires You?
A charity has been launched to provide peer support to people struggling with mental health issues. Resilience Collective (RC) is the first such body to provide a platform powered by those who have experienced similar issues, rather than just professionals. It is...
by Abriel | Dec 19, 2018 | 2018, Causes Week 2018, Good Health & Well-being
When 24-year-old Hayyu Nariah Nasir was still at university, she saw many of her peers volunteering at orphanages and old folks’ homes, whereas hardly any seemed to be reaching out to the mental health institutions. “There’s a stigma attached,”...
