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JC graduates offer free tuition to raise funds for charities
While at home during this circuit breaker period, Miss Moh Jin Yin, 19, wanted to find a way to encourage others to raise funds for non-profit organisations supporting those affected by COVID-19. On April 17, five teenagers launched Project Circuit, a website where...
Mum raised S$30,000 to build low-income family care kits
The “circuit breaker” has disrupted daily lives, but parents with children born between April and May are faced with an added dilemma – how do you celebrate your child’s birthday? One Singaporean mum of three decided that the best way to celebrate her daughter’s...
Volunteers team up to make masks at home
By day, Madam Choong Chui Ping teaches mechanical technology at the Institute of Technical Education. By night, the mother of two is a "tailor" who has been sewing masks - not for family or friends, but for strangers she may never meet. Armed with basic sewing skills...
Billionaire giving restaurant-quality meals to needy
Food firm TiffinLabs, co-founded by billionaire Kishin R.K., has set up a charitable foundation to give free meals to the needy during the Covid-19 crisis. The TiffinLabs Food is Love Foundation has partnered charity Free Food For All to distribute, as a start, 20,000...
Stars fire up their power to raise funds
Local celebrities are stepping up in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, which has shut many businesses and entertainment venues in Singapore. Television presenter Diana Ser launched charity campaign ShowWeCareSG on 15 April to raise $250,000 in a month for...
NTU undergrad cooks for hundreds of folks in need
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...
Online initiative for low-income families
Community groups have launched an online platform to help low-income families whose plight during the coronavirus pandemic was featured in The Straits Times on 19 Apr. It noted the systematic gaps that these families face such as food insecurity and low wages. These...
Campaign to make workers feel welcome in housing estates
A group of volunteers has launched a campaign to encourage Singaporeans to be more welcoming when migrant workers are relocated to housing estates in a bid to curtail the coronavirus. The initiative - Welcome In My Backyard (Wimby) - is a direct response to concerns...
Struggling family gives $5000 to charity
More than 120 people, including Singaporeans living overseas, wrote in to offer help after reading about 17-year-old Loh Miao Xin and her family in The Straits Times. First-year polytechnic student Miao Xin had shared that her mother was jobless, as the coronavirus...