– Charlie “Tremendous” Jones, author and motivational speaker
There are many issues that the community is facing. And only when we take the effort to find out more and keep ourselves up-to-date, can we be part of the solution and change can happen, to truly build a community that cares.
Cities step up bid for green pandemic recovery
Mayors from Seoul to Seattle are stepping up plans to make their cities healthier in a global strategy to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and fight climate change. Cities are the single-largest source of mankind's greenhouse gas emissions heating up the planet....
300 homeless get help from network during circuit breaker
Nearly 300 homeless people have sought help from an aid network during the circuit breaker period, said Minister for Social and Family Development Desmond Lee. Called Partners Engaging and Empowering Rough Sleepers (PEERS), the network had engaged 65 people when it...
Pandemic offers chance to fight global warming
With nations restricting movements to curb COVID-19’s spread, carbon-intensive fossil fuels have seen a drop in demand. While experts acknowledge that demand for fossil fuels is likely to return once restrictions are lifted, the experience offers insights into their...
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...
OCBC donating another $1.23 million to over 50,000 people
More than 50,000 people, including migrant workers, will receive supermarket vouchers or other necessities with a $1.23 million donation by OCBC Bank. The bank said in a statement on 28 April that it will be providing 1,000 Singaporean families with $800 in...
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...
COVID-19 offers preview of impact of environmental threats
While some people may say that the COVID-19 pandemic is pushing climate change off the front page, we see more similarities than dissimilarities. Both transcend ideology in testing the competence of governments in dealing with longer-term risks. Both involve the...
A chance to transform way we live for sustainable future
The COVID-19 pandemic has understandably superseded the issue that dominated the news, politics, business and academia for much of last year (2019) - the climate emergency. But do they both have the same underlying causes with the same solutions? The coronavirus is...
JC graduates offer free tuition to raise funds for charities
While at home during this circuit breaker period, Miss Moh Jin Yin, 19, wanted to find a way to encourage others to raise funds for non-profit organisations supporting those affected by COVID-19. On April 17, five teenagers launched Project Circuit, a website where...
Mum raised S$30,000 to build low-income family care kits
The “circuit breaker” has disrupted daily lives, but parents with children born between April and May are faced with an added dilemma – how do you celebrate your child’s birthday? One Singaporean mum of three decided that the best way to celebrate her daughter’s...
Volunteers team up to make masks at home
By day, Madam Choong Chui Ping teaches mechanical technology at the Institute of Technical Education. By night, the mother of two is a "tailor" who has been sewing masks - not for family or friends, but for strangers she may never meet. Armed with basic sewing skills...
Billionaire giving restaurant-quality meals to needy
Food firm TiffinLabs, co-founded by billionaire Kishin R.K., has set up a charitable foundation to give free meals to the needy during the Covid-19 crisis. The TiffinLabs Food is Love Foundation has partnered charity Free Food For All to distribute, as a start, 20,000...
Bosses of affected businesses step up to help foreign workers
Sales at Liang Food Caterer have plunged by around 80% in recent weeks but general manager Foo Zhi Yang is still dishing up meals for migrant workers. The firm prepares lunch and dinner - rice with vegetables and other ingredients - and delivers them to workers every...
Stars fire up their power to raise funds
Local celebrities are stepping up in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, which has shut many businesses and entertainment venues in Singapore. Television presenter Diana Ser launched charity campaign ShowWeCareSG on 15 April to raise $250,000 in a month for...
Social enterprise brings clean water to 30,000 people
If there were an antidote to the general climate of volatility that weighs on our current epoch, Wateroam's success story might fit the bill. Established in 2014 by Mr David Pong, 30, Mr Lim Chong Tee, 28, and Mr Vincent Loka, 26, the company has, through its portable...
NTU relief package to help students in need due to COVID-19
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has launched a private philanthropic programme to help its students, with university president Subra Suresh and wife Mary Suresh making a personal gift of $100,000 to seed the fund. The University said in a statement on 22 April...
NTU undergrad cooks for hundreds of folks in need
Lee Ray Sheng was thrilled when his fried beehoon stall opened for business at the end of February. For the 20-year-old computer science undergraduate at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Raydy Beehoon, which opened into the wee hours of the morning, was a...
Online initiative for low-income families
Community groups have launched an online platform to help low-income families whose plight during the coronavirus pandemic was featured in The Straits Times on 19 Apr. It noted the systematic gaps that these families face such as food insecurity and low wages. These...
