Super Positivity Spreader

Why changing lives has more to do with responsibility than personality.

- Mary Lim

STANLEY NG lawyer

“When your motivation is to help, you can better understand the issues and find solutions”

Over the past year, Stanley Ng has been spearheading the corporate social responsibility initiative at CHP Law LLC, where he is a corporate lawyer. The firm offers legal support to HCSA Dayspring SPIN, which reaches out to single parents through respite and befriending services.

Due to either a lack of awareness or financial challenges, most of these single parents struggle to navigate their legal problems. Ng helps to match their cases to the most suitable lawyers from CHP.

“Through our work with HCSA, we hope to establish a spirit of helping others,” says Ng, “rather than a charitable activity that we undertake only every now and then.”

Beyond HCSA, Ng also contributes to the Huang Clan Singapore Association, for which he received the Outstanding Youth Award last year from the Singapore Federation of Chinese Clan Associations.

As the secretary-general of its youth committee since 2015, Ng has managed to grow local membership and help make clan associations more attractive to younger Singaporeans. With programmes that reach out to migrant workers and kids from disadvantaged or marginalised families, he quickly broke down walls.

Ng recalls: “It was challenging trying to convince others to believe in an idea so ‘out there’. But I tried hard to encourage both our youths and elders to adopt a ‘first through the wall’ mindset. We should not be fearful to do something new or radical. It was a life lesson I hope our youths learnt and can apply to their lives and careers.”

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