by Abriel | Apr 23, 2020 | 2020, What Inspires You?, Zero Hunger
Lee Ray Sheng was thrilled when his fried beehoon stall opened for business at the end of February. For the 20-year-old computer science undergraduate at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Raydy Beehoon, which opened into the wee hours of the morning, was a...
by Abriel | Apr 7, 2020 | 2020, Zero Hunger
Although workplaces had shut down islandwide on 7 April, it was business as usual for Mr Nizar Mohamed Shariff and his employees, who continued their daily home deliveries so that needy families will not go hungry. Mr Nizar, 49, was advised by a friend to halt...
by Abriel | Jan 28, 2020 | 2020, What Inspires You?, Zero Hunger
When three friends from Delhi started the Robin Hood Army five years ago, all they wanted was to take food from a place of plenty to a place of shortage. Mr Neel Ghose, one of the founders, said his friends had surplus food that could feed about 150 people....
by Abriel | Nov 9, 2019 | 2019, What Inspires You?, Zero Hunger
Long before he was in the business of feeding people, Adrian Ang was a hungry teenager, in more ways than one. It was 1997 and he was 16, when the Asian financial crisis was ravaging his parents’ business. Now 37, and the founder of a successful restaurant franchise,...
by Abriel | Oct 18, 2018 | 2018, Zero Hunger
The Global Food Security Index (GFSI) released on Tuesday (Oct 16) placed Singapore at the top of the list, a jump of three places from last year (2017) and for the first time, it has topped the ranking since the listing of 113 countries was started in 2012 by the...
by Abriel | Sep 15, 2018 | 2018, Zero Hunger
Single mother Indrapathi Sugumaran, 33, has been receiving vegetables, fruits and meat every Sunday for the past two months from Singapore Red Cross volunteers. “It makes a difference to us because we get to have chicken or fish weekly now instead of twice a...
