What were you doing before launching Dignity Kitchen?
I started my career as a shipyard worker in Singapore. I went to the UK to study and lived there for 12 years. I obtained a degree in engineering and an MSc in computer integrated manufacturing. Then I came back to Singapore in 1994 and worked for [what is now] PricewaterhouseCoopers. Later, I started my own management consultancy to develop businesses in China and India. I ran this business until 2006.
In Singapore, you don’t see beggars, homeless people or disabled people on the streets or in shopping malls. I realised there is another side of Singapore that people don’t want
