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Racing for an amazing 'raise'

Fund-raiser in style of The Amazing Race pulls in donations for association of people with visual disabilities

Ms Nur Hazwani feeling the contents in a box to guess what they were, as part of the challenge at the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Each team had to go to two locations and complete the challenges. Left: Participants Lim Choon Wee (right) and Lau Kwan F
Participant Iskandar Ibrahim (in glasses) and volunteer Annalise Mei-Li Irby cheering before setting off on the race from the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped (SAVH) building in Toa Payoh Rise.
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Participants and volunteers on the way to Caldecott MRT station to start the Amazing Race-style fund-raising event race on Saturday. The volunteers underwent half an hour of training to learn how to effectively guide a person with vision loss. ST PHOTO: DESMOND FOO
Ms Nur Hazwani Mohammad with volunteers at Caldecott MRT station. They took MRT trains to get to the pit stops - comprising the Singapore Botanic Gardens, Chinatown Heritage Centre, Indian Heritage Centre and Malay Heritage Centre. ST PHOTO: DESMOND FOO
Ms Nur Hazwani feeling the contents in a box to guess what they were, as part of the challenge at the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Each team had to go to two locations and complete the challenges. ST PHOTO: DESMOND FOO
(From left, all in white) Participants Edward Tan, Lee Keok Lih and Sng Chye Hock taking a teh tarik break with volunteers before proceeding to the Malay Heritage Centre to complete the race. ST PHOTO: DESMOND FOO
A team shooting a video of themselves dancing at the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Teams had to complete two tasks at each location - solving a puzzle using their senses and creating a short video. ST PHOTO: DESMOND FOO
Participants Lim Choon Wee (right) and Lau Kwan Foo having a discussion with volunteers before heading across to the Indian Heritage Centre in Little India. ST PHOTO: DESMOND FOO
Ms Nur Hazwani feeling the contents in a box to guess what they were, as part of the challenge at the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Each team had to go to two locations and complete the challenges. Left: Participants Lim Choon Wee (right) and Lau Kwan F
Participants Chia Zhe Hui (left) and Mouhamad Sufian Abdullah with volunteers Teng Wantian (right) and Lim Chu Kun walking past Sultan Mosque after completing their task at the Malay Heritage Centre. ST PHOTO: DESMOND FOO
Desmond Foo  Senior Executive Photojournalist
Updated
Jan 17, 2020, 12:18 PM
Published
Jan 13, 2020, 05:00 AM
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A group of visually impaired go-getters had one goal in mind when they took part in an Amazing Race-style dash on Saturday - raise bucket-loads of cash for the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped (SAVH).

The event, Festive Season Amazing "Raise", was organised to achieve another aim as well - to let people with regular sight experience what it is like to be visually impaired.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on January 13, 2020, with the headline Racing for an amazing 'raise'. Subscribe

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