by Abriel | Jun 4, 2019 | 2019, Sustainable Cities & Communities
Foreword Coffee is a cafe with a social mission: to empower people with disabilities and special needs by providing them with skills training and employment in the food and beverage sector. They are also placed in a front-line role serving customers. The company...
by Abriel | May 24, 2019 | 2019, Sustainable Cities & Communities
Singapore should leverage technology to better integrate those with special needs, including students, into society, said President Halimah Yacob. During a visit yesterday to Metta School, which caters to students from the ages of seven to 21 who have autism and mild...
by Abriel | May 20, 2019 | 2019, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
On finding that a farm in Vietnam was producing excess milk, a group of students from Singapore Polytechnic (SP) came up with a way to stop it going to waste and even help the farm make some cash – by turning it into soap. Students from SP’s chemical and...
by Abriel | May 15, 2019 | 2019, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
From a sociable and chatty man, Melissa’s father became withdrawn, depressed and forgetful. Initially, Henry, a sales director, was diagnosed with depression. His family thought he was stressed by his job. He was diagnosed with young-onset dementia at age 54....
by Abriel | Apr 30, 2019 | 2019, Sustainable Cities & Communities
Singapore residents with dementia could soon be reminded of some of their memories with help from a digital app developed by a group of museums in England, under an agreement inked yesterday (29 April). The My House of Memories app is designed to be easy to use, with...
by Abriel | Apr 29, 2019 | 2019, Sustainable Cities & Communities
Some 1,160 less well-off families in Nee Soon GRC each received $200 in FairPrice vouchers yesterday from a social enterprise in the community. The funds came from the surplus of around $250,000 earned by FutsalArena @ Yishun. Nee Soon GRC MPs – Mr K. Shanmugam,...
