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Don’t treat the poor as needy and helpless
Some winning ideas at a recent competition for breakthrough solutions offer inspiration for the kind of radical rethinking needed to uplift families living in rental flats
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The team behind the Empowered Families Initiative, which offers families living in public rental flats money to use in a way they themselves believe will work to improve their lot.
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Han Fook Kwang
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Nora* is a single mother of five children and has to look after her aged parents, all on her single income which works out to around $600 per household member.
Gloria also has five children and is a programme assistant with a monthly household salary of $1,700. That’s less than $285 a family member a month.
