• 15 JUN 2021

Education for Refugees: Lessons from the Ground

There are no refugees in Singapore. But that didn’t stop Mathilda and Wani from joining the global movement to support refugees through Advocates for Refugees Singapore.

• 23 APR 2024

Cartwheel Foundation: Education for Philippines’ Sea Gypsies

A local NGO is changing a tide of stigma with a wave of support for the Sama-Bajau people.

• 30 JAN 2023

How Early Trauma Changed a Teacher’s Approach to Education

With over two decades of experience as an educator, Emma Monk recalls the learning difficulties she had during school, owing to her own childhood trauma. Emma has since developed classroom strategies to help her nurture the potential in traumatised students, and she reflects on the need to train teachers to better support students with complex difficulties.

• 18 JUL 2023

Hope for Children in Slums in India: Class is in Session!

How a group of volunteer Singapore educators helped Parikrma Foundation’s teachers better educate their students.

• 07 MAR 2023

Educate, Equip, Empower: Building a Safer World for Women

Women’s safety is not an isolated issue. It needs to be seen — and tackled — holistically.

• 15 AUG 2017

Educating the Children of Their Tribes

This school gives them free access to education, food and shelter.

• 26 FEB 2021

Human-Macaque Conflict Takes Two Hands to Clap

As conflicts between humans and macaques increase, ACRES is working towards creating a compassionate society that lives in coexistence with wildlife.

• 13 JAN 2021

Beacon of Hope in Myanmar

Zaw Mar Wu’s future shines bright with the help of Global Village of Hope who believes in the power of education.

• 25 NOV 2014

The Fear to Volunteer

Honest views from regular people on commitment, working with strangers and whether volunteering is even useful.

• 16 DEC 2022

Spinning the Wheels of Change in Bali

They’ve been told that they were cursed, but for people with disabilities in Bali’s Cahaya Mutiara Ubud, life is a blessing.

• 01 MAR 2021

Ask Me Anything: A Wild Q&A with Louis Ng

Louis Ng, founder of ACRES and Member of Parliament, speaks on wildlife in Singapore

• 31 AUG 2022

Breaking the Poverty Cycle One Scholarship at a Time

Bong Sen helps women and girls in rural Vietnam break the cycle of poverty.

• 08 MAR 2015

Not Your Ordinary Superwomen

For International Women's Day, we celebrate those who are changing lives.

• 15 JUN 2021

Compassion. Hopeful. Coexistence

• 09 NOV 2012

Lending a Broken Hand

A teacher volunteers to help children from slums and learns so much from them along the way.

• 01 NOV 2017

Life Was Great for Her Pillow. She Called It Pippi

Naming animals and things could help us treasure them more.

• 12 DEC 2013

Mandela Can’t Do It All

"Sometimes I think people deify a hero in exchange for not having to act like the hero."

• 03 FEB 2021

Arts and Music the Path to Mental Well-Being for Children

NalandaWay Foundation serves up arts-based programmes to keep students active under India’s COVID-19 lockdown.

• 07 FEB 2017

What This Syrian Refugee Does Will Make You Smile

He was taught entrepreneurial skills and is now reaching out to other refugees

• 16 MAY 2025

Bridging the Education Gap — With Boats, Bikes and Books

Bridging the education gap — with boats, bikes and books