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We are pleased to inform you that we are onboard - Cisco Foundation Matching Gifts Program. As an approved charity in Bright Funds, we are part of the Cisco employee giving, volunteering, and matching gifts platform. Moving forward, employees from Cisco can make credit card/PayPal donations on the Bright Funds platform for our organisation and, of course, log volunteer hours or request matching gifts for donations made directly to iC2 PrepHouse Limited.
After two successful pilot workshops teaching robotics to students with visual impairment, SG Enable is looking into offering such workshops to people with intellectual disabilities.
It was their son's degenerative eye disease that set ophthalmologist Audrey Looi and her neurosurgeon husband Ang Beng Ti on the path of philanthropy.
Singapore Chinese Girls' School 120th anniversary commemorative publication, "Nearer the Sky: Pieces of Jade & Gold II"
2019
The day of the SCGS fun fair in 2010 marked a major turning point for Dr Audrey Looi, a senior consultant ophthalmologist at the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC).
From The Heart
January 29, 2019
When Joshua Babol started losing more of his sight towards the end of his Primary 4 and early Primary 5 days, his family was concerned about how he would be able to continue his education in a mainstream primary school. In 2016, Joshua was diagnosed with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy and referred to iC2 PrepHouse by Adj A/Prof Sharon Tow of the Singapore National Eye Centre.
Singapore Tatler
September 17, 2018
In August, iC2 PrepHouse, a local charity supporting visually-impaired individuals, and SG Enable, an agency working with persons with disabilities, joined forces to co-host The Enabling Fund Gala at the Grand Hyatt Singapore. The evening saw more than $960,000 was raised for iC2 PrepHouse and the Today Enable Fund, with big contributions made through a live auction, where guests eagerly attempted to outbid each other for items such as a wire sculpture by young artist Joshua Tseng, an iC2 PrepHouse beneficiary who has low vision. Prior to this, guest-of-honour emeritus senior minister Goh Chok Tong energised the room with a reminder in line with the evening’s "bold" theme, “I urge all Singaporeans, whether with disabilities or not, to boldly pursue your dreams and chase your rainbows.” .