Food from the Heart is a non-profit organisation that feeds the needy through its food distribution programme. They aim to alleviate hunger by providing reliable, consistent, and sustainable food support to the less-fortunate through food distribution programmes.

In celebration of Food from the Heart 20th Anniversary, Naturel partnered with them to raise $20,000 worth of rice. For every pack of Naturel Organic Brown rice purchased in stores, a pack of rice will be donated to the organisation.

Naturel reached its goal of $20,000 in less than 1 month and is grateful to its customers for their support in this initiative. This partnership with Food from the Heart is just one of the many community initiatives by Naturel. The donated rice will be distributed to Food from the Heart's beneficiaries and less privileged communities.

Six green houses were added to the eco-garden to produce fresh, tasty and nutritious harvests of herbs and vegetables. Eleven residents have also completed the six months training to upskill themselves to take up jobs in eco-farming, horticulture and landscaping.

The HEB-Ashram eco-garden 2.0 was launched on 23 July 2022. Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for Social Policies, graced the event to unveil a plaque and presented a token of appreciation to Mr Whang Shang Ying, Executive Chairman of Lam Soon Singapore.

(From left to right : Prof N Ganapathy, Chairman of HEB-Ashram Halfway House , Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for Social Policies and Mr Whang Shang Ying, Executive Chairman of Lam Soon Singapore)

Following the successful launches of edible gardens in various educational institutions, Lam Soon is pleased to work with Gan Eng Seng School. The garden built was completed in July 2021.

Gan Eng Seng School embarked on the project to provide a new gardening experience for students and staff. The garden is a welcoming outdoor space that engages students in therapeutic horticulture under the Gear Up programme. A large variety of plants with vibrant colours were chosen to intrigue the senses and pique students’ interest. Activities are planned to equip the students with life skills while enjoying the benefits of gardening. Our partner, Edible Garden City, crafted the programme and trained both teachers and students to ensure the programme’s sustainability.

Lam Soon’s registered charity TL Whang Foundation made a donation of $1million to set up The Lam Soon New Horizon Fund. This fund is managed by philanthropic organisation The Majurity Trust, which will provide seed funding of up to $150,000 over three years for each of the selected grantees.

Its aim is to provide critical incubation support to start-ups in their formation period and growth journey. Six non-profit start-ups are in the first batch of recipients, including elder support initiative Kampung Kakis that matches volunteers to elderly people.

The annual Community Chest Awards recognise individuals and organisations that have made notable contributions to lend a helping hand to the less privileged. Lam Soon Singapore is honoured to be conferred the Charity Platinum Award for having donated $3.5million to Community Chest. This donation benefitted the youths, as well as the elderly across eight social service agencies.

Lam Soon will continue to uphold its twin values of Community and Sustainability and find ways to give back to the society.

Besides supporting educational institutions with garden builds and programming, Lam Soon continued its partnership with Edible Garden City to assist HEB-Ashram in its rehabilitation project for convicted substance abusers to reintegrate into the society.

The first phase of the project sees the refurbishment of HEB-Ashram’s existing edible garden area to be more resistant to weather conditions. The second phase involves knowledge and skills transfer to staff and residents for daily maintenance. The programme engages the residents physically and mentally and empowers them with useful skills for gainful employment in future.

As part of a series of projects with Edible Garden City, Lam Soon supported Damai Primary School’s garden built and programming. A 150m² garden was built on the school’s rooftop where the plants can receive abundant sunlight throughout the day – a good opportunity for students to engage in outdoor learning. On top of strengthening the school’s Environmental Science Programme, the garden is developed with the aim of providing a platform to engage high-needs students under the UPLIFT! Programme.

Canossian School is one of the early adopters of building an edible garden within their school compound, with the assistance of Edible Garden City. This permaculture food garden grows around 40 varieties of plants and fruits, and is used as a sensory garden for the students. To inspire creativity, heritage wood and old doors were also used in the construction of the garden, creating a welcoming and rustic space that is rooted in history, yet accessible and enjoyable to the young. The bountiful harvests of produce like sweet potato leaves and bananas are distributed to the disadvantaged.

With the success of CHIJ Kellock’s edible garden, Lam Soon embarked on its second project with Edible Garden City and Naval Base Primary School. The garden is strategically built on the open space nestled between 2 classroom blocks, providing high visibility and an enticing invite for students and teachers to visit the garden during their break time.

Named “Garden of Hope”, the garden was officially launched on 30th April 2021. The garden boasts a wide variety of vegetables ranging from Bak Choy and Kang Kong to various herbs. On top of featuring the wonders of home-grown greens, it also provides a space for hands-on learning and exciting after-school enrichment programmes. The harvest from the garden is packed for Nee Soon’s very own community refrigerator that serves the underprivileged residents in the neighborhood. This cultivates the invaluable virtue of giving back, that extends beyond the classroom and textbooks.

HealthServe Limited, an IPC-registered charity that provides medical and other related services as well as social assistance to migrant workers, held a fund-raising gala dinner on 10 October 2014. The event, titled Around The Table, celebrated the spirit of friendship and community. Lam Soon contributed the door gifts for the event - bars of Labour soap - to honour the contribution of migrant workers to Singapore.

In partnership with Republic Polytechnic School of Hospitality, Lam Soon awarded a Scholarship to the Polytechnic’s student Zachary Yeo for the academic Year 2013.

This is the second year that Lam Soon has awarded  this Scholarship in support of the culinary industry and the aim to encourage new entrants into the food & beverage industry, The Scholarship is awarded to students with outstanding academic performance and achieving excellence in co-curricular activities. Zachary is the top student from the Diploma in Restaurant and Culinary Operations (DRCO) for Year 1 and 2. He has great passion in the area of culinary operations and is a deserving student to receive this scholarship.