A property investment specialist seeking an alternative to charitable donations found support from like-minded clients and contacts to help underprivileged teens.
Keith Ong (pictured) was scouring the internet for a boarding school for his teenage daughter when he chanced upon a Singapore venture that tugged at his paternal heartstrings and fuelled his desire to help disadvantaged children.
High among the search results Ong found =Dreams, a charity that had just begun a weekday residential campus for teenagers from low-income families.
Ong, the CEO and co-founder of RealVantage, a fractional real estate investment platform, was intrigued. He recalled how moved he was by a 2022 Netflix documentary on Shanti Bhavan, a residential school in India run by a non-profit for children from the lowest socio-economic class.
“The documentary spanned many years and tracked the development of some school girls from the time they were about five to six till they became young professionals, like lawyers or doctors,” said the lanky, bespectacled Ong seated in the conference room of his office at Aperia, a development on the fringe of the Central Business District. “These accomplishments would ...
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