Siglap resident Eric Chiam and his family have set up a soft-drink vending machine outside their house for food deliverymen and other workers to help themselves to a free drink. Installed in January, the machine in the first month dispensed 637 drinks to food deliverymen,...
The project is a family affair.
Meanwhile, Dr Chiam funds the project and his wife, Dr Lisa Chen, 51, also a general practitioner, selects the drinks and puts in the orders. Besides taking turns to top up the vending machine twice a week, the family often discuss over meals the number and types of drinks to buy and ways to make the project better.
Dr Chiam said: “We hope to make the system maybe try to discern whether the person is a delivery worker, for instance, so that the machine does not just dispense drinks to everyone. That way, the system is less prone to abuse.”
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