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Featured Series – What Inspires You?
Three Singaporeans with worthy causes
The Straits Times spoke to three individuals with New Year's resolutions that embody a wider purpose - from helping kidney patients to reaching out to inmates and saving the environment. Pamela Low, 22, Undergraduate Pamela Low wants to go on a diet in 2018. It is not...
Three women who overcame adversity in their lives
Three people talk about how they overcame personal hardship, and their hopes for 2018. Their stories may be different, but they point to common themes: the resilience of the human spirit and the power of hope. In spite of the obstacles faced, they have something to...
Seniors give back with gusto
The number of people in Singapore aged 55 and above who volunteer has increased, said organisations and experts. In a National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre survey for 2016, published in May 2017, the number of people aged 55 to 64 who volunteer has increased from...
Single dad eyes better life for special-needs daughter
Five months ago, seven-year-old Lee Qi Zhen required her father’s help to stand. The little girl has a convergent squint — an eye condition which causes her eyes to turn inwards — and amblyopia, also known as lazy eye, in both eyes. She underwent surgery at KK Women’s...
Hero brings hope to families
Mr Kelvin Wan, 45, is the energetic founder of non-governmental organisation (NGO) Hope Place. The local media has hailed him as Kuching town’s hero. Mr Wan knows what it is like to go hungry – an experience that set him on his journey of bringing hope to others. In...
Volunteers who ensure no one dies alone
Mr Tay Cheng Tian, 54, died in a hospice on 4 November. None of his family members was by his bedside when he took his last breath, but he did not die alone. In the last few weeks of his life, a bunch of strangers befriended him and committed to spending time with him...
Stroke and laid off but pushing on
Mr Lee Yong Jie was 19 years old when he had a massive stroke. He needed an operation to remove the blood clot in his brain, and even if he survived the operation, he might be paralysed. When he awoke, the doctors told him that he had a congenital condition called a...
Retired carpenter’s Paris dream fulfilled
When Mr Sum Kin Nar built a 30cm-tall model of the Eiffel Tower about five years ago, he relied on photos and his imagination. The 78-year-old lives alone and depends on public assistance to get by. He had never been to Paris and could not afford to travel there. Two...
Befriending former Dakota Crescent residents
Every Saturday morning, former Dakota Crescent resident Yee Dew Eng welcomes volunteers who come knocking on her door in Cassia Crescent. The former part-time cleaner, who lives alone, cannot read the instructions on her medication, so the befrienders explain them to...