Zia is a 42-year old divorcee with five children. Four of the younger ones are in school whilst her eldest son is due to complete his National Service this year. As a Patient Service Assistant at a health care centre, she earns a gross income of $1500 a month. After deductions, she takes home approximately $1100. Over the last twenty …
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A great time to be alive
The Eleventh Hour (see below) is a documentary on the environmental crisis. I haven’t watched the film and I’m not going to blog about it, but there’s just something from this trailer that caught my attention when I first saw it, and that I still think of from time to time. It’s the quote from the interviewee at 1:58 in the …
Read More »Raiding the homeless – part two
"I do feel, rather strongly, that the minister for MCYS is unfit to take charge of a ministry which is suppose to care for those in need if his ministry is more concerned about its public image than in genuinely helping those in need."
Read More »Help the homeless in Singapore!
Shelter for the homeless to raise funds for homeless in S'pore.
Read More »Sleepless in Singapore
The country is ill-equipped to cope with a possible rise in homelessness. TOC Editorial.
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