Who we are

We are a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting the common good here in Singapore.

“Culture is not a battle to be fought,
but a garden to be cultivated.”

We aim to strengthen social bonds by creating room for reasonable conversations and finding common ground. We hope to create a common understanding of values that will help us thrive together for generations.

Latest Articles

Fatal Child Abuse of Megan Khung: Can we do better?

Every child abused is one child too many. In this process of soul-searching and learning to do better in our protection of children following the death of Megan Khung, it would help to reduce the level of blame levelled at the preschool and social service agency involved. Furthermore, we should also appreciate her grandmother’s dilemmas in her response, and the wider ecosystem surrounding the incident which involved drugs and family breakdown.

April 21 2025

“Porn: What’s the Harm?”: A Cultivate Commune update

Early exposure as teenagers, double lives, impaired relationships and bumpy healing journeys: these stories marked Cultivate’s first breakfast conversation this year, on a thoroughly un-breakfast topic – Pornography. Our conversation featured Jeffrey Pang, a counsellor who handles porn addiction cases, and Jakin Tan, a university undergraduate who overcame the addiction. It was moderated by Cultivate Chairperson, Ariel Lim, with her own story of breakthrough.