SINGAPORE - A $300,000 seed fund to boost women's development programmes will kick off by supporting those that advocate or address employment and health issues for one year.
Besides launching the fund, President Halimah Yacob also praised the eight new inductees into the Singapore Women's Hall of Fame at a ceremony on Saturday. Dr June Goh, president of the SCWO, said in her speech that in addition to funding, organisations that require it can get guidance from the NTUC Women and Family Unit and People's Association's Women's Integration Network.
Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Social and Family Development Faishal Ibrahim said the areas of women's health and employment are important to look at. Mrs Barnabas, who was part of the"golden generation" of track and field athletes that won numerous medals for Singapore in the 1960s and 1970s, told The Straits Times she was shocked to receive such recognition decades later.