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Students volunteers and children playing music at MorningStar Sengkang on 11 May 2023 . 
Story on CareNights, an evening support programme for lower-income children aged 6 to 14 years from 6 pm to 10 pm on weekdays, whose parents need caregiving respite or have to work shifts or take up upgrading courses

Morning Star Community Services, which runs evening support programme CareNights, has about 60 children across four centres.

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SINGAPORE – More childcare help in the evenings is available for parents from low-income households who work odd hours, with the expansion of a programme by Daughters of Tomorrow (Dot). 

Since January, the charity that works with underprivileged women has opened up its home-based childminding service from Punggol and Bedok to all of Singapore. 

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