April 29, 2021
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A year ago, just before the circuit breaker started, housewife Sarimah Amat found a youth sleeping on the cold hard surface of a staircase landing in northern Singapore.
A year later, the 23-year-old with his older brother moved out of a shared rental flat into one of their own, allocated to them by New Hope Community Services. However, the pair still slept on the floor, save for a thin towel that separated them from the cold tiles.
Upon discovering that their new flat was absolutely bare, Sarimah who s also the founder of charity initiative Project Pencil @ Yishun 71 immediately rallied her friends and neighbours together to provide the young men with some basic necessities.