IN BRIEF | 5 min read

• The National University of Singapore is collaborating with the Singapore Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) in enabling NUS students taking a service learning course with NUS Social Work to befriend families under MSF's ComLink programme (which supports families with children living in rental housing).
• Singapore Minister of State for Social and Family Development Sun Xueling said at the announcement of this collaboration and programme that ComLink has seen about 430 NUS students joining as befrienders, making them the largest group of volunteer befrienders from any organisation to date.

This article first appeared in The Straits Times and NUSNews on 21 September 2023.