by Abriel | Sep 8, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
As the older child with a brother who is in Primary 2, secondary school student Ayumi Tan does not have an older sibling to guide and advise her. The Secondary 1 student at West Spring Secondary School rarely has the chance to chat with her parents, who work long...
by Abriel | Sep 8, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
Theatre practitioner Peter Sau, 44, would like to see a restaging of Romeo And Juliet where Juliet is in a wheelchair, Romeo has a stump for his arm and the nurse has Down syndrome. “I’d like to see how these different characters can be embodied and...
by Abriel | Sep 3, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
Madam Siti Aidah Abdullah’s children, aged 17 and 15, used to spend hours doing their homework at a McDonald’s outlet in Ang Mo Kio because of the free Wi-Fi. The mother of five has leukaemia and, when not too sick, would accompany her children to make...
by Abriel | Aug 30, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
Commuters will soon be able to share inspiring stories of care that they have witnessed or received during their commute, on an online portal that will be launched next month. The portal, which is one in a series of new initiatives by the Caring SG Commuters...
by Abriel | Aug 29, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
About a week after Ms Katherine Sumantri was born, she came down with a fever that would not break for days. Suspecting meningitis, her doctor put the newborn on a course of antibiotics, even before any test results came in. The doctor’s guess was right, and Ms...
by Abriel | Aug 29, 2020 | 2020, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
Mr Zulhaqem Zulkifli is used to seeing neighbours stream in and out of his home, a two- bedroom rental flat in Queenstown that he shares with his father and three younger siblings. They come for any number of reasons – help with reading letters from the...
