by Abriel | Apr 27, 2019 | 2019, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
Every week or so, a group of volunteers has been visiting female inmates with young children to record them reading storybooks. They will also visit the children to play the audio recordings, so that the children hear their mothers’ voices as the books are read...
by Abriel | Apr 18, 2019 | 2019, Sustainable Cities & Communities
In the formal Straits Ballroom of Fullerton Hotel, a small boy bounds onto the stage to shake the hand of Speaker of Parliament Tan Chuan-Jin, drawing the loudest applause from an audience of smartly dressed adults. He poses next to the photograph that his father...
by Abriel | Apr 17, 2019 | 2019, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
Mr Selva Raju Arumugam has a “happy-go-lucky” family who would spend weekends together, as well as with their extended families. But it all came to an abrupt halt when he was 15. His mother, who suffered from serious complications of diabetes, had come...
by Abriel | Apr 4, 2019 | 2019, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
Young people are taking mental health issues in hand by forming ground-up initiatives to raise awareness of the stigma attached and to reach out to their peers in distress. These arose from the Youth Conversations dialogues the National Youth Council (NYC) held last...
by Abriel | Mar 14, 2019 | 2019, Sustainable Cities & Communities
Pathlight School students will now learn how to code as part of a national drive to teach computational thinking in all schools. Swift Accelerator, a coding programme based on the Everyone Can Code curriculum delivered by Apple-certified trainers, was launched on...
by Abriel | Mar 11, 2019 | 2019, Sustainable Cities & Communities
An initiative, Marsiling Cares, launched yesterday (10 March) will provide Marsiling’s underprivileged residents with even more support by stringing together a series of new and existing programmes in the estate. The initiative was launched by Prime Minister Lee...