40 and counting – more students to benefit as Woh Hup makes second gift to NUS

That’s the number of bursaries that have been awarded to students in financial need, since the Woh Hup Bursary was set up in 1977 with a $100,000 gift from Woh Hup Pte Ltd.

To mark its 80th anniversary last year, the construction company behind such iconic Singapore buildings as MacDonald House and Clifford Pier has pledged a further $150,000. Of the sum, $50,000 will be used to top up the Woh Hup Bursary Fund. This will enable the endowment fund to disburse as many as four bursaries every year.

The remaining $100,000 will be used to establish the full-term Woh Hup Scholarship to be awarded to students pursuing the Project and Facilities Management degree in the School of Design and Environment’s Department of Building. One student stands to receive the award every academic year.

Says Mr Eugene Yong Kon Yoon, Director, Woh Hup: “We hope that this humble gesture would play a part in enabling outstanding young people to further their education and to subsequently participate in and contribute to the Construction Industry’s continued development and growth.”

Pow Guojian, a fourth-year student and recipient of the Woh Hup Bursary, says: “The Bursary has helped to greatly lighten the burden that my parents and I have to bear. I need not take up so many part-time jobs and I’m able to focus on my studies. I am very grateful that I was able to do comparatively well in the semesters that I was awarded the bursary. As a Chinese saying goes, it is just like providing one with coal during winter time.”