A social compact to reach out and help all

There is still much to be done to uplift the vulnerable and disadvantaged among us

The complexities and demands of our world require support for the socio-economically disadvantaged to be systemic, coordinated and owned by everyone in our country. ST FILE PHOTO
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Mum, who is in her 80s, showed me the YouTube video - watch this, she said. Inwardly, I groaned: Mum was showing me independent people battling the odds.

But what I was seeing were people with severe disabilities, living alone, in unhygienic and inaccessible habitation, crawling or bottom-shuffling in their daily activities.

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