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Friendship

Salvom, my friend from Chennai

As Singapore grapples with the ballooning outbreak in migrant worker dormitories, we’ve been given a rude awakening to the kind of dilapidated conditions and inequalities our migrant workers...

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I Go For You (让我来): A way to love the elderly near you

A few weeks after writing Circuit breaker: Don’t forget our grandparents, I’ve found a new initiative that offers us the chance to help seniors who are living alone. Launched to support...

Finding Purpose

I’m just one person, how can I make a meaningful change in the world?

During my exchange semester in China, I lived in a relative comfortable dormitory for foreign students. Every day, I would have to cross an overhead bridge into campus where I’d come across...

Missions

“We can do so much more than this”: A missionary family’s struggle to return from the slums of Marilao

“International travel will be suspended from Friday. Do you think it’s still good for you to be here or should you consider returning to Singapore?” COVID-19 was swelling worldwide, and the...

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A dormitory operator shares what loving migrant workers looks like in the time of COVID-19

We’ve all heard about the growing cases in foreign worker dormitories since the first cluster was announced. Their suffering in this period has made me realised that I’ve long been...

Family

Circuit breaker: Don’t forget our grandparents

During this circuit breaker, it’s been heartening to see multiple Instagram Stories of friends thanking one another for treats delivered to their doorsteps.  While it’s great to go the...

News

Raffles Medical sends out urgent call for doctors and dentists for new Community Isolation Facility

Update (April 29, 2020): Raffles Medical is still looking for nurses, dentists and doctors. They thank all who have already written in, and are in the process of responding to your messages. Even as...

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Singaporeans, here’s how you can help: 5 initiatives to get onboard while you #StayHome

Social inequality seems to be the buzzword on the silver screen this past year with successful satirical movies like Knives Out, Parasite, and Platform – the latest trending film I watched out of...

Work

COVID-19: Don’t forget the freelancers

Young adults, our adulting quest just got super real.  For many of us, not only is this coronavirus market crash our first brush with a financial crisis as members of the workforce, it’s also...