On 13 October 2018, AWARE held a launch party for A Place To Call Home - a photo-essay exhibition by single-parent families. The exhibition is the powerful, heartfelt result of months of creative work by five individuals from single-parent families. Each artist generously opened up their homes and f...
This post was originally published as a press release on 13 October 2018.
Shots of messy, colourful bedrooms, of stainless steel cleaning appliances and of post-it notes from daughter to mother on a kitchen wall - these images are part of A Place To Call Home, a photo essay exhibition curren...
For many families in Singapore, home is a stable sanctuary and a space to unwind. Single-parent families want the same things. But many have to also grapple with frequent moves, housing insecurity and tighter finances.
Five storytellers, all from single-parent families, bare their homes and ...
This post was originally published as a press release on 10 August 2018.
To help break low-income mothers out of poverty, gender equality group AWARE recommends that low-income households should have access to free good quality formal childcare; the State should put in place a robust employment...
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If you could tell the story of your home through a photograph, what would you capture?
Stories of single parents - their families and homes - ar...
We have some good news - on Tuesday, the Minister of National Development announced that the HDB will remove its 3-year time-bar policy for divorced parents to buy subsidised flats. From 6 March, both parents in a divorce will be able to buy or own a subsidised flat each, as long as they are eligibl...
This post was originally published as a press release on 7 March 2018.
Gender equality group AWARE commends the Government’s move to lift the three-year time-bar imposed on divorced couples for purchase of subsidised housing, urging the state to apply the removal to all, regardless of their car...
This article was originally published in TODAY Voices on 14 December 2017.
AWARE supports recent calls made in the media to provide family caregivers with a caregiver allowance.
Many women who leave the workforce for family caregiving during their prime working years do not have enough for retir...
This post was originally published as a press release on 30 November 2017.
Single parents who signed a parliamentary petition urging reform of public housing policies are disappointed with the lack of action by policy-makers.
On Wednesday evening, the Public Petitions Committee published a r...
