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Firms donate fresh veggies and shoes to healthcare staff
Healthcare frontline workers have been receiving donations of face masks, cooked food and other care packages in acknowledgement of their efforts. On 14 May, a group of them received an unexpected gift: locally grown fresh vegetables. Social enterprise City Sprouts...
Bridging migrant worker communication gap in COVID-19
For the past two weeks, Dr Somrita Ganchoudhuri has been conducting short livestreams on Facebook in Bengali dialects to keep the Bangladeshi migrant worker community up to date on the latest developments. The 33-year-old research consultant began doing this because...
Millionaire couple donate 1,000 meals to the needy
Inspired by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s recent Twitter message thanking those who donated meals during Ramadan, millionaire venture capitalist Ozi Amanat and his wife Asema Ahmed have donated 1,000 meals to migrant workers in quarantine through the charity Free...
Sweet treats to bring cheer to young charity beneficiaries
Packs of sweet treats are on their way to 900 beneficiaries of The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund (STSPMF) to boost their spirits during the circuit breaker period. The packs contain products from soya bean-based food and beverage retailer Mr Bean, including...
Music players for seniors living alone to enjoy
Dr Skye Yeo, 46, who is close to her 77-year-old mother, wondered how other seniors, some might be living alone, were coping with being cooped up at home during the circuit breaker period. She wanted a way to brighten up their days and came up with the idea for...
Social enterprise and eateries team up to deliver free meals
Every weekday, social enterprise Glyph delivers free lunch and dinner to 50 children and their families living in rental flats in Bukit Merah. The meals include rice with meat and vegetables, noodles or burgers. The initiative, which started on 20 April, aims to ease...
Restaurant owner and team feed the needy in Chinatown
In the midday heat, Mr Bernard Teo and his team are handing out free food packs to a long queue that stretches along the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple in Chinatown. It takes the trio about 15 minutes to give out all 110 lunch meals to the needy. Since 8 April, the day...
Giving free meals to needy Muslims breaking fast
After learning that some delivery rider friends were getting by on just S$30 of income a day as the COVID-19 crisis deepened, freelance food caterer Mohd Razib, 55, decided to help out by providing meals for them and private hire drivers. So four weeks ago, Mr Razib...
Schools step up to help needy students and families
Before home-based learning (HBL) kicked in, schools were worried that children who came from disadvantaged homes would start lagging behind their peers. Schools prepared by finding out which students needed laptops and tablets. Teachers also made arrangements for a...