“… I felt compelled to do something to thank him for what he has achieved for himself and Singapore, and further encourage him towards his badminton hope and dreams.”

This is Wei Chan, an avid badminton player from 10 years of age and just like Loh Kean Yew, I started playing badminton at the front gate of my house with my late father. Through the years, I represented Victoria School, Victoria Junior College, Republic of Singapore Navy, my university’s Malaysian Singaporean Students’ Association and badminton clubs for competition.

Having gone through rigorous training of sorts, I know the amount of sheer hardwork, perseverance, tenacity and grit that is required for Loh Kean Yew to achieve what he did, love for the game aside. On being interviewed by Business Times on the article “Smash hits from the court: 6 business leaders serve up lessons from badminton” dated 22 Dec 2021 and subsequently finding out that due to the nature of this tournament, Loh Kean Yew fought to win the BWF World Championship 2021 without any prize money, I felt compelled to do something to thank him for what he has achieved for himself and Singapore, and further encourage him towards his badminton hope and dreams. This arduous journey to the apex is long and most times lonely.

Having managed to raise $50,000 among the 5 business leaders, whom I happened to know one way or another, this has also led to many appreciative readers from the public approaching me. Young (with a mother writing to me saying her young daughter wanting to do her part to encourage him) and old, many wrote to me wanting to show their gratitude and to further motivate this young and humble lad to chase his badminton hope and dream.

Thus, the special setup of this limited time link through Ray of Hope to facilitate this encouragement fund going directly to Loh Kean Yew.  

From Ray of Hope

This is a private campaign started by Mr Wei Chan as a member of the public.