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Featured Series – What Inspires You?
They save the food and customers pay less for it
There are certain cuts of chicken that people prefer more than others and, as a result, the breast meat is often unsold and goes to waste. Three graduates from the Singapore Management University and Nanyang Technological University saw a business opportunity in such...
More Singaporeans step up to help others
More Singaporeans were moved to help others in 2019 through various online platforms and physical volunteer centres, said the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY). Online charity portal Giving.sg saw a 35% growth in the number of registered users in the...
Going the distance to befriend migrant workers
Unlike those who spent the recent year-end holidays at overseas resorts, Ms Isabel Phua and six friends opted to travel to Bangladesh to visit the villages where families of some migrant workers in Singapore reside. For 10 days last month (December 2019), they...
Do good with tech
Software engineer Tengku Hafidz remembers the first time he fell in love with coding - during a class in polytechnic. Mr Tengku, who went on to study information systems at university, now imparts tech skills to young people, particularly those from the Malay and...
Singapore student volunteers to fight bush fires
22-year-old Mark Yeong is a Singaporean studying in the University of Sydney who spends his holiday in a different way. This second-year student physiotherapy student is a volunteer firefighter that has been battling the bushfires that have been plaguing Australia...
‘National service’ of the mentoring, tutoring kind
Outside of regular full-time national servicemen duties, six NSFs also spend their Saturdays running a free tuition programme for children living in rental flats in the Henderson area. Mr Chua Tze Hean, who started Budding Minds in October last year, roped in five...
Eye surgeon’s mission to help the less fortunate
“I have a vision to bring eye care technology and innovation to communities-at-large and underprivileged societies. I strongly believe that technology can help improve awareness on eye health and give better eyesight for all.” Eye surgeon Claudine Pang is the first...
Meeting the needs of underprivileged families in Singapore
It was life in the United States that opened Singaporean Nilofar Iyer's eyes to the needs of the underprivileged. While in Pennsylvania with her husband in 2014, the housewife was struck by the poverty and juvenile delinquency in some neighbourhoods. "It bothered me...
Making books come alive for young children
Seven-year-old Yin Le used to struggle with reading in English. Her mother, Ms Wendy Kang, fretted as her command of English was not strong. In January, Yin Le began attending weekly Story L.A.B. reading sessions at Potong Pasir Community Club, where volunteers read...