When Saving $50 a Month Brings Stress: Families Need Compassion, not Charity

When Saving $50 a Month Brings Stress: Families Need Compassion, not Charity

December 18, 2023

IN BRIEF | 15 min read

  • Director of Melrose Home at the Children’s Aid Society and FASS alumna Cindy Ng (NUS Social Work) draws from her experience piloting a debt and savings programme and research – including that led by Associate Professor Irene Ng (of NUS Social Work and NUS Social Service Research Centre) – to argue for a more considered approach to tackling poverty and alleviating the plight of low-income families, in this Op-Ed in The Straits Times.

Source: The Straits Times © SPH Media Limited. Permission required for reproduction.


This article first appeared in The Straits Times on 2 December 2023.

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