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Helping less privileged students financially goes beyond dollars and cents The Straits Times, 9 Feb 2022 
Causes Week 2021: Boon Lay kids transform their community through art The Straits Times, 25 Dec 2021 |
About 3,300 needy undergraduates set to benefit as NUS ramps up financial aid The Straits Times, 8 Feb 2022 
[Translation] SMU Access offers tuition fee assistance to help students from lower income... Lianhe Zaobao, 10 Mar 2021 |
S'pore charity takes new approach to help children from poor families achieve their dreams The Straits Times, 3 Jan 2022 
Circle of Care scheme helps track needy kid's health, development The Straits Times, 25 Feb 2021 |
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Circle of Care
Raffles Scholarship Series
Integrated Care Programme:
Tak Takut Kids Club
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Keeping Learning Alive for Vulnerable Children
- "Circle of Care scheme helps track needy kids' health, development", 25 Feb 2021, The Straits Times
- "调查：寻求医疗服务阻碍多 低收入家庭孩童较难按时复诊治疗" 24 Feb 2021, Lianhe Zaobao
- "Kanak-kanak dari keluarga bergaji rendah miliki tabiat kesihatan lemah: Kajian NUH", 23 Feb 2021, Berita
- "Intervention programme has positive impact on children from low-income families in Singapore, study finds", 23 Feb 2021, The Straits Times
- "Experts call for more help for low-income families to meet kids' developmental and health needs", 23 Feb 2021, The Straits Times
- "Integrated healthcare model key to improving preschoolers' quality of life: Study", 23 Feb 2021, Channel NewsAsia
- "狮城有约 |十分访谈：弱势孩童支援网络", 23 Feb 2021, Channel8 News
- "调查发现：低收入家庭儿童的健康较常被忽略", 23 Feb 2021, Channel8 News
- "线上支援弱势家庭 关怀之圈助家长“管教”孩子", 12 Jul 2020, Lianhe Zaobao
- "Tackling inequality by helping children from low-income families", 30 Sep 2019, Channel NewsAsia
- "The Circle of Care programme for disadvantaged children to be expanded", 19 Aug 2019, The Straits Times
- "关怀之圈’未来五年投1200万元助弱势家庭孩童", 24 May 2018, Lianhe Zaobao
- "Wider network, S$12m funding for programme supporting children from poor families", 23 May 2018, TODAY
- "$13 Million boost over next five years for Circle of Care scheme for disadvantaged children", 23 May 2018, The Straits Times
Raffles Scholarship Series
- "Raffles Institution cash award helps brothers pay for transport, meals", 10 Sep 2019, The Straits Times
- "Record number of RI scholarships given to needy pupils", 10 Sep 2019, The Straits Times
- "Speech by Minister for Education Mr Ong Ye Kung, at the 2019 Raffles Institution Founder's Day", 27 Jul 2019, Ministry of Education
- "Move to boost diversity at top schools welcomed", 29 Dec 2018, The Straits Times
- "Levelling the playing field key in drive for better education system: MPs, NMPs", 11 July 2018, Channel NewsAsia
- "Don’t call us an ‘elite school’ says RI as it ramps up outreach to heartland primary schools", 27 May 2018, TODAY
- "A Path with Heart", 25 July 2015, RI Principal’s Speech at the 192nd Founders’ Day
Integrated Care Programme:
- "西南社理会综合关怀计划 助边缘孩童融入社群", 8 Sep 2019, LianHe ZaoBao
- "综合关怀计划扩展到西南区 帮助弱势小学生继续学业", 8 Sep 2019, Channel8 News Online
- "Programme to help vulnerable children graduate pays off", 7 Sep 2019, CNA
- "Programme helping kids stay in school launches in South West District", 7 Sep 2019, Channel 5 News (from 14:35s)
- "Programme helping kids stay in school launches in South West District", 7 Sep 2019, Channel 8 News (from 13:26s)
Tak Takut Kids Club
- "Causes Week 2021: Boon Lay kids transform their community through art", 25 Dec 2021, The Straits Times
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- "S'pore charity takes new approach to help children from poor families achieve their dreams", 3 Jan 2022, The Straits Times
Keeping Learning Alive for Vulnerable Children
- "'If no work at all, how?' Low income families grapple with zero income, higher expenses amid circuit breaker", 30 Apr 2020, CNA Insider
- "Home-based learning blues: Life in a rental flat during the COVID-19 circuit breaker", 29 Apr 2020, CNA Insider
SMU Access:
- "新大经济援助计划资助学费 助低收入家庭学生圆大学梦", 10 Mar 2021, Lianhe Zaobao
- "SMU received the Excellence Award for community partnership at the People's Association Community Spirit Awards 2018", 20 Nov 2018, SMU News
- "新大学生义工 助小学生培养软技能", 20 June 2018, Lianhe Zaobao
- "A school that cares", 12 March 2018, The Straits Times
- "SMU student can now focus on her studies, thanks to funding scheme", 15 August 2017, The New Paper
- "New SMU scheme benefits needy students", 14 August 2017, The Straits Times
- "Prestigious scholarships and comprehensive financial aid await new students at SMU", 6 March 2017, The Straits Times
- "SMU Access: Quantedge Foundation gifts $8 Million to seed-fund SMU’s new initiative that guarantees full funding of tuition fees for all eligible incoming Singaporean students", 1 March 2017, SMU News
SUTD Education Opportunity Grant
- "SUTD Introduces New Grant to Defray the Cost of Education", 20 Feb 2020, SUTD Press Release
- "University to offer grant, bursary to needy students", 24 Oct 2019, The Straits Times
- "新科大获机构与企业捐赠400万元 用来设立助学金与补助金", 24 Oct 2019, Lianhe Zaobao
- "SUTD gets S$4m boost to help needy students", 23 Oct 2019, CNA
- "SUTD to offer tuition grant and bursary award to students who need financial help", 23 Oct 2019, The Straits Times
- "All SUTD Students Will Have Opportunity for Global Exposure and Eligible Needy Students Will Receive Free Undergraduate Education", 21 Feb 2019, SUTD Press Release
NUS Enhanced Financial Aid Scheme
- "Helping less privileged students financially goes beyond dollars and cents", 9 Feb 2022, The Straits Times
- "About 3,300 needy undergraduates set to benefit as NUS ramps up financial aid", 8 Feb 2022, The Straits Times
- "NUS steps up financial aid for Singaporean students from low-income families", 8 Feb 2022, CNA
- "NUS to fully fund tuition fees for full-time S'porean undergraduates from low-income households", 8 Feb 2022, Mothership
- "Full-time Singaporean undergraduates from low-income households to have NUS tuition fees fully covered", 8 Feb 2022, NUS Press Release
NCSS Venture Philanthropy Fund:
- "We're passing them hope': The ITE student who found her purpose uplifting others", 24 Feb 2019, CNA Insider
- "Doing good, innovatively", 30 May 2018, The Business Times
- "Free scheme helps ease widows' grief", 19 Jan 2018, The Straits Times
- "More firms offering counselling for staff", 19 Oct 2017, The Straits Times
- "Vulnerable young girls need help: President", 26 Sep 2017, The Straits Times
15 Shorts:
- "Money FM podcast: Coffee with Claressa: The 15 Shorts film project", 18 Dec 2018, The Business Times
- "5 local short films depicting the marginalised in S'pore via powerful real-life stories", 1 Dec 2018, Mothership.SG
- "Short film about nun who counselled death-row inmates part of project to promote giving culture", 30 Nov 2018, The Straits Times
- "New film project to unearth stories about Singaporeans from the 1970s to the 1990s", 28 April 2017, Channel NewsAsia
UNTEACHABLE, the film documentary:
- "Lessons from movies about local education", 11 Dec 2019, The Straits Times
- "The Seven-Year Long Journey Behind UNTEACHABLE - An Interview with Director Yong Shuling and Producer Lisa Teh", 26 Nov 2019, SINEMA
- "SGIFF: 'Unteachable' Explores New Facets of Singapore's Education System", 26 Nov 2019, Variety
- "Insightful and Bittersweet, UNTEACHABLE is an Ode To Singapore's Often-forgotten Dreamers", 25 Nov 2019, SINEMA
- "30th Singapore International Film Festival is beyond the ordinary", 14 Nov 2019, The Straits Times
COVAX Advance Market Commitment:
- "$3 million for vaccines from Asia Philanthropy Circle, Gavi", 6 Jun 2021, Alliance Magazine
Cambridge scholarships:
- "Quantedge Foundation launches scholarship for refugee students", 19 Feb 2020, King’s College, Cambridge