Everyone can play a part in fund-raising

ACCOMPLISHED paralympian and Stage 4 leukaemia survivor William Tan successfully hand-pedalled for 50 hours on the last weekend of August. Besides consuming liquids and having a five-minute break every hour, Dr Tan didn't eat or sleep throughout the duration of the challenge. He did this to help needy children, and to celebrate SG50 and his entering his sixth year of cancer-free living.

Why would anyone in his right mind want to subject his body to such torture? To add to the already demanding challenge, the sun was out, blazing. Joggers pacing Doc around the track of Temasek Junior College (TJC) in Bedok had to walk instead. Some beat a hasty retreat to the shade.

It was essentially a two-person fund-raising project. Doc was responsible for the physical challenge, and I did the fund-raising. Reaching out to my network of business and personal contacts, family members and people that most Singaporeans would know of (and who do not know me), we managed to meet the S$50,000 target set by Doc.