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Obayashi donates $100,000 to ST School Pocket Money Fund

Obayashi Singapore managing director Lee Aik Seng presenting a mock cheque for $100,000 to The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund (STSPMF) general manager Lau Hui Ling at an event at the Shangri-La Singapore hotel on July 26. Obayashi, a construction company, is contributing to causes like the STSPMF to mark the 10th anniversary of its operations in Singapore being formally localised into a subsidiary of the Obayashi Group. The STSPMF is a community project started by The Straits Times in 2000 to provide pocket money to children from low-income families to help them through school. It has helped more than 220,000 cases of children and youth in need and disbursed more than $100 million. ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE

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