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(From left) Madam Tang Lai Mui and her husband, Mr Sim Kah Yong, took their first music lessons thanks to the Temasek Trust-CDC Lifelong Learning Enabling Fund. Mrs Renuka Vadivellu signed up for an iPad workshop with support from the fund.
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SINGAPORE – When Mr Sim Kah Yong was a boy, his parents bought a piano because he loved music.
“But it was very difficult to find someone to teach me,” says Mr Sim, who is 60 and a guide with Dialogue in the Dark Singapore. This collaboration between Ngee Ann Polytechnic and Dialogue Social Enterprise employs visually disabled people.
