NON-PROFIT financial education centre Aidha was not set up to help Singaporean women battling hard times.

Its original brief was to equip maids and other migrant women here with entrepreneurial skills to take back to their communities.

But in a telling sign of the times, Aidha's telephone has been ringing off the hook with calls for help from jobless Singaporean women.

Read the full report in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.