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Grocery shopping trips teach kids nutrition
Armed with $30 worth of supermarket vouchers, 12-year-old Muhammad Khairunnas wandered around the Sheng Siong mart picking out groceries. It was part of local charity Children's Wishing Well’s FRESH Programme, which organises weekly supermarket trips, pairing...
Dreaming of a green Christmas
A sustainable Christmas without sacrificing the good things in life? Three eco-warriors show how they’re doing it. BJORN LOW, 39 Founder of Edible Garden City The founder and managing director of urban farming social enterprise Edible Garden City has always celebrated...
The zero-waste movement is on the march in Singapore
With climate change and urbanisation, much attention is focused on our consumerist lifestyle, and how all the waste we generate is destroying the planet and our children's future. For a small city state like Singapore, a conversation on waste is particularly...
Connecting seniors in need with professional caregivers
Entrepreneur Gillian Tee has a soft spot for seniors, as the main people who took care of her growing up, besides her mother, were her grandmother and an elderly nanny. Her late nanny, a Malaysian woman in her 60s, raised her lovingly till she was 10. And in Ms Tee's...
Social entrepreneurs are a force for good
Reclaiming the Future, Empowering Communities, Restoring Dignity and the Environment, and Transforming Lives. These are just some of the missions of social enterprises around us. For such businesses, there’s more than one bottomline. Besides the financials, success is...
Saving food from the bin
Taking leftover food is all about priorities, a delicate balance of factors such as size and weight, leaky odours, a tolerance for looks from people on the MRT and fridge space. The writer of this article braves stares and join members from Food Rescue @ Events, a...
Stuff’d boss gives free meals to hungry kids
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,...
SIA goes green
Plastic is out and paper straws and reusable cups are in for Singapore Airlines (SIA) as it seeks to shift to more sustainable practices, both in and outside the aircraft. These moves are just one part of the national carrier's push to increase sustainability across...
Singapore’s caregiver extraordinaire wins award
When 80-year-old Liu Xiao Zhong died in his sleep on a cheap mattress on the floor of Mr Lee Cho Poon's one-room rental flat in 2011, Mr Lee arranged his funeral and paid his respects to him. Four years later, another elderly man, Mr Lee Wen Qiang, who was in his 70s,...