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Heart Travel: Travel Agency With A Heart
Image via Wikipedia Heart Travel might look like a regular travel agency, with its colourful posters of holiday destinations and racks of vacation brochures.
But, operating from a space in a community club in Ang Mo Kio, it does not just sell holiday packages: It also trains needy Singaporeans to be travel consultants, though they may have neither prior experience in the field nor the expected educational qualifications for the job.
Heart Travel, the first ‘social enterprise’ in this field, hopes these individuals can find work in other travel agencies after about six months on the job.
Race Against Time And Cancer
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Some people call completing a 200m swim, 10km cycle and 2km run a challenge.
For Fiachra MacFadden, 13, it is a privilege and a joy.
He is among the 1,000 or so people who have signed up so far for July’s Osim Singapore International Triathlon.
He is unlikely to win the race. But, for Fiachra, just starting it at the East Coast Park will be a triumph in itself. The Irish boy was diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukaemia (CML), which is cancer of the bone marrow, in April last year.