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“When your motivation is to help, you can better understand the issues and find solutions,” says this corporate lawyer, who spearheads his firm’s CSR initiative to reach out to single parents.
“If everyone is given equal opportunities, some people with disabilities could even perform better than the rest of us,” says the co-founder of Inclus, a company that helps find jobs for people with disabilities.
“Why can’t we wear something just because it is not designed to be worn easily?” With that, she launched a clothing label Will & Well to design and customise pieces for people with disabilities.
“I want to help build a singing Singapore by encouraging people from all walks of life to sing,” says the founder and artistic director of Voices of Singapore Choral Society.
“We want to help others overcome the digital divide, so they can break out of the poverty cycle,” shares the executive director of Engineering Good, which empowers disadvantaged communities through access to technology.