by Abriel | Sep 9, 2017 | 2017, Sustainable Cities & Communities
Peer support specialists will be able to apply for an apprenticeship scheme to ease them back into the workforce. This scheme provides them with a training allowance during a six-month work trial and is a collaboration between the National Council of Social Services...
by Abriel | Sep 8, 2017 | 2017, Sustainable Cities & Communities
For years, it was a bit of a squeeze in a four-room flat in Lorong Ah Soo for Madam Indranee Elizabeth Nadisen, her husband and six children. But even then, she always found the space and time to foster children. Over her 35 years as a foster mother, 43 children...
by Abriel | Sep 8, 2017 | 2017, Sustainable Cities & Communities
Gareth Ho, 17, looks like any normal teenager, but gets around in a motorized wheelchair. Some people find this unacceptable. Strangers have told him that, at his age, he should be walking around instead of being in a wheelchair. They do not realize that he has...
by Abriel | Sep 8, 2017 | 2017, Sustainable Cities & Communities
In some Housing Board blocks, common spaces such as void decks are fitted with motion sensors that switch lights on and off when residents pass by. Soon, they could have another purpose: letting HDB planners know which spaces are underutilized. Armed with such data,...
by Abriel | Sep 7, 2017 | 2017, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
Even as greater government efforts to improve pre-school education are under way, more pre-schoolers have been doing their bit to improve the lives of others. A record 34,000 children from more than 550 pre-schools are helping out in community service projects this...
by Abriel | Sep 4, 2017 | 2017, Sustainable Cities & Communities
If you order in sign language at Puzzles SG café in Ngee Ann Polytechnic, you get a 10 per cent discount. Even if you do not know how to sign, there is an instruction board at the counter to encourage you to give it a try. Miss Suzana Slemat and Miss Shazlina Sulaiman...
