/articles/one-100-years-old-one-just-31
These individuals fund specific causes in a targeted way, with a keen focus on results
DR OON CHIEW SENG, 100
At the grand old age of 100, Dr Oon Chiew Seng is still not done with work, and…
/articles/love-care-time
Love can blossom in one's golden years, even in a seniors' home.
Mr Lim Hoo Ching, 86, and Madam Tan Khin Lan, 75, are among four couples who have met and married at the AWWA Senior Community…
/articles/being-fish-its-job-dive
Philip Chan has been with Underwater World Singapore since it opened in 1991
A diver in a red and white Santa Claus costume, with a stringy beard no less, plunges into a tank, sending the fish…
/articles/decade-helping-youth-risk-pays
Beautiful People helps 100 girls and women each year, launches mentorship for teen boys
Ms Nurhayati Abu Bakar was placed under probation and sent to a youth home after getting into a fight…
/articles/senior-record-holder-took-sport-avert-dementia
Madam Phua Peck Ling first spotted a brochure for a cup stacking interest group at the void deck of her Housing Board block about four years ago.
What caught her eye was the claim that cup…
/articles/being-practical-delivers-goods
Volunteers from Keeping Hope Alive focus on meeting actual needs of those they help
From a painting firm boss who uses his supplies to spruce up formerly bedbug-infested flats to a manicurist…
/articles/custodians-opera
They put in many hours, on top of their day jobs, to learn all aspects of the art
In a teahouse in Smith Street, Madam See Too Hoi Siang is telling some primary school children: "Every sound…
/articles/neighbourly-care-vulnerable-residents
Trained volunteers check that they take medication and go for medical appointments
Ms Nekmah Mahadi works at a primary school canteen stall from mornings to afternoons.
The 52-year-old…
/articles/neighbours-step-out-fight-dengue
Mum-and-daughter pair among 6,000 volunteers who are spreading the word on prevention in a friendly way
Dressed in yellow vests and bright red shirts, Madam Liew Yin Wan and her daughter, Ms…
/articles/volunteer-run-library-celebrates-3rd-year
library@chinatown is first and only one here staffed this way
Decked with festive lanterns, a 1960s-style photo booth and a live band, library@chinatown bustled with activity yesterday.…
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/articles/will-you-adopt-me-online-please
Animal shelters, which are seeing a drop in adoptions and donations, turn to online donation drives and boosting their virtual presence",,"
Animal shelters are finding it harder to get their pets…
/articles/singapore-biennale-goes-online
The art exhibition may have ended, but all the works will be available online at the Google Cultural Institute by end-April",,"
The Singapore Biennale closed on March 22, but art lovers can still…
/articles/national-care-hotline-now-ready-calls-after
300 specialists volunteer to help man the 24-hour hotline
SINGAPORE - The National Care Hotline is now ready to offer support to those who need it, after specialists trained in…
/articles/hello-interaction-goodbye-isolation
Help seniors stay connected during the coronavirus outbreak so that they remain active and healthy
For 73-year-old former baker Ong Hoo June, weekdays usually involve going to the Lions Befrienders…
/articles/positivity-can-strengthen-immunity
In the laboratories of Carnegie Mellon University some years ago, 95 men and 98 women volunteered to have live cold and flu viruses sprayed directly into their noses.
Yet, not everyone…
/articles/she-reached-out-aids-patients-when-no-one-would
While the pioneer leaders were the original architects of Singapore, everyday heroes helped build society here. This is another story about such people in the series, The Lives They Live.
The year…
/articles/st-causes-week-2019-befrienders-lend-ear-lonely-seniors
Recognising that the ageing population presented new issues, a group of six church friends decided to start Living Way Social Services in 2015 to help.
Led by The Living Way Church's pastor…
/articles/curious-about-things
To 81-year-old Madam Amta Taiyeb Mama, learning about things, learning from others, and teaching others are as natural as breathing. In fact, she would even go so far as to say that learning is as…
/articles/highest-honour-drug-offender-turned-social-worker
After almost a decade behind bars, stay at halfway house helped turn his life around
As a teenager, Mr Kelvin Quak was a gang member who tried heroin to gain the acceptance of his fellow gang members…
/articles/theatre-ties-bind
Motley crew… Passion for theatre binds the cast of It Takes All Kinds, its director Serena Ho (top row, third from left) and assistant director Julius Foo (top row, third from right).
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