SINGAPORE - A 900-strong virtual choir singing Home and volunteers handing out welfare kits to migrant workers and seniors are among more than 80 ground-up projects being given a leg up by a new fund to help people cope with the fallout from Covid-19.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - A 900-strong virtual choir singing Home and volunteers handing out welfare kits to migrant workers and seniors are among more than 80 ground-up projects being given a leg-up by a new fund to help people cope with the fallout from Covid-19.
"What we were concerned about was, how will our society remain strong post-Covid-19? We felt there was a need to support what volunteer groups were doing. A lot of them are not registered charities - these are just ordinary Singaporeans who want to do their part." Mr Tan said the trust is"still deliberating" whether to extend the fund after the money runs out. He expects it to reach its tail-end by May or early June.
Former project manager Eric Koh, 52, started the initiative with a colleague last year, and has kept at it even after he was laid off the same year.
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