If the youths of today hold the key to our future, we foresee bright days ahead thanks to the dream team of 17-year-old Ng Yi Jiat, Koh Pi Rong and Wang Heqing. The bubbly trio are Habitat Singapore’s Campus Chapter Leaders in Dunman High School. Campus Chapters are student-driven groups that function as a mini-Habitat office within their school. Tasked with widening Habitat Singapore’s reach and impact, Campus Chapter leaders like Yi Jiat, Pi Rong and Heqing were trained by

Ru Yi first volunteered with Habitat Singapore for Home Sweep Home 2017 before embarking on a internship as a Project HomeWorks Programme Intern. Ru Yi found Project HomeWorks so enjoyable, she became a HomeWorks Champion once her internship came to an end. We asked Ru Yi about her Project HomeWorks experience and here are her thoughts: Habitat: What inspired you to take part in Project HomeWorks? The word ‘Home’ strikes a chord deep inside me. Personally, I feel that having

"As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.” – Ram Dass Every faith can be put into action. It's a simple statement that Habitat demonstrates every single day with our commitment to helping and working with everyone regardless of their backgrounds. It's also that same belief that compelled us to bring toget

When I first met Mdm Chua, I was a new staff to the HomeWorks team in end-2013. She was in her late 40s, beautiful, tall and tan-skinned with lovely eyes that were distant and sad in her humble Toa Payoh flat. Later I found out from her social worker that she suffers from depression. On my visits to her one-room flat in preparation for the session, she always made an effort to interact with us, but on some days she really struggled to pull herself out of the depths of her dep