by Abriel | Dec 24, 2019 | 2019, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
22-year-old Mark Yeong is a Singaporean studying in the University of Sydney who spends his holiday in a different way. This second-year student physiotherapy student is a volunteer firefighter that has been battling the bushfires that have been plaguing Australia...
by Abriel | Dec 18, 2019 | 2019, Causes Week 2019, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
It was life in the United States that opened Singaporean Nilofar Iyer’s eyes to the needs of the underprivileged. While in Pennsylvania with her husband in 2014, the housewife was struck by the poverty and juvenile delinquency in some neighbourhoods. “It...
by Abriel | Nov 30, 2019 | 2019, Sustainable Cities & Communities
Like many other private-hire car drivers in Singapore, Steven Chong spends long hours on the road. However, Mr Chong is not like most of the more than 41,000 people here who hold a private hire car driver’s vocational licence (PDVL). The private-hire car driver of...
by Abriel | Nov 29, 2019 | 2019, Sustainable Cities & Communities
To help pay for utilities, groceries and her grandchildren’s pocket money, Madam Rusnah Sajee joined a local charity programme that enables her to bake snacks for sale. Madam Rusnah, 59, is part of Bakers Beyond, an initiative by Beyond Social Services that gathers...
by Abriel | Nov 25, 2019 | 2019, Sustainable Cities & Communities
Yummy noodles that also ease small-scale farmers’ woes: the goal of one food science start-up in Singapore. That firm, NamZ, is now getting a boost – to take its high-protein, lower-fat NoodleZ from pilot to product. NamZ was among nine regional businesses...
by Abriel | Nov 21, 2019 | 2019, Sustainable Cities & Communities
A recent casual chat with a friend turned to emigration, that old chestnut of an issue. She is a 24-year-old law student, and is all set on a legal career when she finishes her studies. Asked if she would consider leaving Singapore to work one day, her bold statement...
