by Abriel | May 28, 2017 | 2017, Sustainable Cities & Communities
A new community volunteering network has been set up to bring together existing HDB community-bonding programmes and volunteers into a single network. Minister for National Development and Second Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong announced the launch of the new...
by Abriel | May 26, 2017 | 2017, Sustainable Cities & Communities
Next year, voluntary welfare organisations (VWOs) treating the elderly will be able to get a Facebook-like timeline of their client’s history and interests from a new healthcare information technology system, called IngoT PCC (Person-Centred Care). Currently,...
by Abriel | May 25, 2017 | 2017, Sustainable Cities & Communities
‘Two Hands’ tells the story of how Enoch, co-founder of Garcons, helped his apprentice, Kevan, went from a repeat offender to a chef who works hard to make an honest living. Having been in and out of jail since he was 19, Kevan was again sentenced behind bars. While...
by Abriel | May 24, 2017 | 2017, Sustainable Cities & Communities
A casebook that deals with the everyday ethical challenges of caring for the elderly is now online and available to anyone. The open-access casebook is the second volume produced by the National University of Singapore (NUS) Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine’s...
by Abriel | May 23, 2017 | 2017, Sustainable Cities & Communities
About $12,322 was raised for charities at Singapore Press Holdings’ (SPH) sixth Charity Carnival on 22 May 2017. The annual bazaar, which was held in the media company’s auditorium, saw 500 staff coming together to support 26 charitable causes. Fourteen...
by Abriel | May 22, 2017 | 2017, Sustainable Cities & Communities
Mr Muhammad Fazli Hasri, 29, works at Tan Tock Seng Hospital’s (TTSH) Foot Care & Limb Design Centre, helping others to find a way to overcome their challenges, like he did barely two years ago, when he walked out with a new artificial right limb. Patients...
