Featured Series – What Inspires You?

Social service veteran Gerard Ee remembers well the moment he became "addicted" to helping others. Some 30 years ago, Mr Ee was roped in by his father, the late Dr Ee Peng Liang, founder of Community Chest, to help with the logistics for a Community Chest TV show....

National University of Singapore (NUS) undergraduate Gary Lau made it to university this year, but as a child growing up in a troubled home environment, he did not think he would ever do well enough in school to make it to university. The 27-year-old, who recently...

It has been nearly six years. Ms Azlin Amran suffered a severely damaged spinal cord, fractured pelvis, punctured lungs and such terrible abrasions to her face that the nurses advised her not to look into the mirror for a month. During those long years, she had to...

Food brings people together. Over a meal, one family hopes to bring people closer, spark conversations and promote inclusivity among people from all walks of life. My Home Your Home is a private home-dining and entertainment experience run by TV producer Rose Sivam,...

Hoai Thuong is 19 months old, and cute as a button. She lies, lively eyes darting, in her hospital bed at Gleneagles, her oversized head wrapped in swathes of bandages. The Vietnamese infant has just had an operation in the morning for hydrocephalus, a condition where...

As a child, youth worker Kevin Chia found himself shielding his mother from beatings from his father. His father, who was involved with gangs and jailed repeatedly for drug offences, often returned home drunk and would beat up his wife over money. When Mr Chia tried...

For eight years from Primary 3 to Secondary 4, Nigel Ng did not speak a word to his classmates in school. After being scolded and punished by his teachers for talking too much or too loudly in class in Primary 2, he began to believe that talking was an unpardonable...

After the loss of his grandfather to lung cancer in 2015, Mr Aloysius Moh wanted to find a way to help people with chronic illnesses. "This feeling of not wanting others to go through the same thing I went through triggered something in me. I wanted to help people...