Abstract:This paper was conducted to investigate the significance of non governmental organisations(NGOs)in Singapore and address the hypothesis on how“NGOs can help to alleviate the existing social inequality in Singapore”.From previous research papers,the difference between the role of government and the society was not explicitly addressed.To achieve these objectives and improve from previous work,data on NGOs was collected using these 3 methods:government documents,web search,and survey responses.The findings demonstrated the key characteristics of NGOs that set them apart from government initiatives,proving that NGOs can help to fill up the gaps in current government policies and alleviate social inequality.