Goh Yan Han

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Help for special needs kids left without support

9 hours ago

340 families to get new insurance and care programme ensuring long-term therapy for children with special needs

Dec 11, 2019, 7:25 pm
Each smartphone given out under Project Give A Line, Change A Life comes with a six-month unlimited data plan and an app aimed at helping the former offenders.

Ex-offenders get free phones to help them reconnect with family, friends

Dec 10, 2019, 5:00 am

Over 30 ex-offenders get free smartphone under initiative to help them reconnect with family and friends

Dec 9, 2019, 4:38 pm
The Play For Good band performing old tunes for seniors at Methodist Welfare Services Nursing Home in Yew Tee in October. Comprising amateur musicians, the band has been providing the free service since 2015. PHOTO: PLAY FOR GOOD

A call out for those going the extra mile and doing good for society

Dec 7, 2019, 5:00 am

Initiatives featured in ST Causes Week find more people approaching them to volunteer

Dec 6, 2019, 5:45 pm

Ahmad Fauzi Sani: Cop helps mother of five caught for stealing milk powder

Dec 6, 2019, 5:00 am
Carousell founders (from left) Quek Siu Rui, Lucas Ngoo and Marcus Tan started the online marketplace in 2012, inspired by their internships in Silicon Valley start-ups while studying at the National University of Singapore.

Quek Siu Rui, Lucas Ngoo and Marcus Tan: Focused on making Carousell meaningful and enduring

Dec 6, 2019, 5:00 am
The fund will help people such as Ms Zanariyah Mohamed Abzul, 38, a housekeeper at the YMCA@One Orchard hotel who has mild intellectual disability. ST PHOTO: CHONG JUN LIANG

YMCA sets up fund to finance community service projects

Dec 3, 2019, 5:00 am

New YMCA charity fund to support those with special needs, youth at-risk and underprivileged families

Dec 2, 2019, 9:30 pm

More parents of pre-school kids can save more on fees

Nov 30, 2019, 5:00 am

Lower pre-school fees and more childcare centres expected under government-funded scheme

Nov 29, 2019, 3:00 pm
Madam Rusnah Sajee (centre, holding plate) with other women from the Bakers Beyond programme at their new baking facility in Whampoa Drive. Its commercial equipment such as convection ovens and chillers makes it easier to work on larger-scale project

Charity baking scheme gets its own space

Nov 29, 2019, 5:00 am

New baking facility for women in charity baking programme

Nov 28, 2019, 6:12 pm
The New Creation Church said Savills Singapore valued The Star Vista at $296 million as of Oct 30. On Wednesday, it was announced that the church's business arm had acquired the mall for $296 million from CapitaLand.

No plan to raise funds to buy mall: New Creation Church

Nov 22, 2019, 5:00 am

No plans by New Creation Church to raise funds to buy $300 million shopping mall

Nov 21, 2019, 10:20 pm
Residents will be encouraged to help their town councils to clean their estates on April 26 next year, a Sunday.

Cleaners to pass broom to residents on CleanSG Day

Nov 20, 2019, 5:00 am

Despite cancer, he finds ways to soar

Nov 20, 2019, 5:00 am

Generation Grit: Cancer grounds his pilot dream, but he finds other ways to soar

Nov 19, 2019, 7:15 pm
New facilities at Jade Circle Arena | The Straits Times

Families welcome to join elderly for fun at club

Nov 17, 2019, 5:00 am
Ms Callie Ng and Mr P. Ramesh are among the 1,500 volunteers involved in the many programmes that Care Corner Singapore offers.

Volunteers who were once charity beneficiaries pass it on

Nov 17, 2019, 5:00 am
President Halimah Yacob and Minister for Social and Family Development Desmond Lee with (from left) Promising Social Worker award recipient Lim Shen Yong and Outstanding Social Worker award recipients Lee Seng Meng and Tan Ching Yee at the Istana on

Social workers lauded for efforts to help youth, patients

Nov 17, 2019, 5:00 am

Volunteers who received guidance as teens now mentor other at-risk youth with Care Corner

Nov 16, 2019, 4:37 pm
New facilities at Jade Circle Arena | The Straits Times

New inter-generational lifestyle club encourages seniors to have fun with family while exercising

Nov 16, 2019, 2:27 pm

Social workers recognised for efforts to help youths-at-risk, terminally ill patients

Nov 15, 2019, 11:15 pm