SINGAPORE - It is a lazy Sunday afternoon - a group of women trade gossip at the base of an HDB block as their children play with soccer balls and plastic scooters when suddenly, a van pulls up and it's all action.
"Food's here," yells one of the women, and at once, the cheerful makciks are transformed into a well-oiled machine of committed volunteers.
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