Woman who started community fridge: ‘I’m always looking out for my neighbours'

Mother of five Marlina Yased knows what it is like to go hungry and have no money to put food on the table.

So she does not want any of her neighbours living in highly subsidised HDB rental flats in Lengkok Bahru to go to bed hungry.  

The 46-year-old started a community fridge initiative offering free food, such as vegetables, frozen meat and seafood, to her neighbours in need.

About 200 families with school-going children have received food from the community fridge, which is placed outside her two-room flat, since the initiative started in May 2023.

From linking them up to free medical services and courses to equip mothers with work skills, Madam Marlina has, over the past few years, organised various programmes for her neighbours.

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