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SINGAPORE - NTUC First Campus (NFC) plans to support an estimated 2,500 low-income families this year through a $350,000 Food and Nutrition Programme. It aims to support families with a monthly household income below $4,500 - or monthly per capita incomes below $1,125 - and with a child enrolled in any one of NFCs over 140 My First Skool pre-school centres. The programme, which involves food packs as well as health and nutrition workshops, is funded by donors to NFCs Bright Horizons Fund, which...

7 pre-schools to have in-school support for children with developmental needs Toggle share menu Advertisement An early childhood educator with her students. (File Photo: TODAY) 30 Apr 2021 06:10PM) Share this content Bookmark SINGAPORE: The Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA) will roll out measures to enhance inclusion and support for children with developmental needs, including the pilot for an Inclusive Support Programme (InSP). Some children with develop...

SINGAPORE - To cultivate an appreciation of Total Defence, more than 35,000 children from some 500 pre-school centres are making artworks as part of their lessons leading up to Total Defence Day on Feb 15. Called Our Hopes, Our Singapore Art Jam, the programme aims to teach children the importance of Total Defence, its six pillars and how every Singaporean plays a part in building a strong, secure and cohesive nation, including the fight against Covid-19, said Safra in a statement on Thursday (...

SINGAPORE - Children of low-income families attending NTUC pre-schools will receive a one-time $400 top-up to their Child Development Account (CDA) from May this year. In addition, one member of each of these 4,000 families will receive a sponsored NTUC membership, said NTUC First Campus (NFC) in a statement on Tuesday (Feb 9). NFC, which operates My First Skool and Little Skool-House, said the initiatives are part of its efforts to give low-income families and their children additional suppor...

The New Paper NTUC First Campus to loan iPads to help kids bridge digital divide Madam Susilawati Thamrin and her five-year-old daughter Alesha Nur Shareefa Haminorrashid, who attends a My First Skool centre in Toa Payoh, will benefit from the Digital Kampung Programme next year. The initiative is fully supported by a $250,000 donation from the FairPrice Foundation. PHOTO: NTUC FIRST CAMPUS Pre-school operator NTUC First Campus will loan iPads to help more than 2,000 low-income families over th...

2024 As far as records go, Selangor Dredging Berhad (SDB) has long been a believer in the value of freehold projects. So it really comes as no surprise that The Myra is a freehold project in itself – despite its immediacy to both the Potong Pasir MRT station and surrounding commercial spaces like the Poiz Centre. For those wondering, the plot of land that the Myra sits upon is actually an amalgamation of 17 separate land plots – all of which were privately owned by individual landlords up t...