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That is what I have always been taught and that is what I hold true to this very day,\u201d he says.\u00a0\u201cWhat pains me enormously is to see people discriminating against others simply because of their differences and even worse, act out that bias against people who cannot fight back. The breadth and depth of the injustices we see every day can crush your spirit.\u00a0 But we can all, individually and collectively, help to bring about change – to perhaps even out the balance a little and to try and tip the scale more in their favour,\u201d Mr Tan adds.Disability sports: A league of its ownThrough his passion and determination to help disabled athletes gain as much recognition as able-bodied ones, Mr Tan served as their voice. He pushed for equality for the\u00a0 para athletes and embarked to change the public\u2019s perceptions. He was even successful in moving reports of para athletes from Lifestyle to Sports within the mainstream media.\u201cI always say, \u2018Don\u2019t just hear what I have to tell you about it, come and see\u2019,\u201d he says.\u00a0It all happened for him in Atlanta in 1996.\u00a0\u201cNo one can go to the Paralympics and not come back a changed person. The Paralympics is, in my view, the most spectacular sporting event on earth. Nowhere else will you see people from all over the world, from different cultures, ethnic and political backgrounds, all coming together as one family to celebrate, in our athletes, the triumph of the human spirit. The sheer majesty of it is breathtaking. And that very same spirit beckons us all to let go of our own fears and perceived limitations, to reach for all that is best in each and everyone of us,\u201d he says.\u00a0Mr Tan owes an immeasurable debt to his wife Leonora for standing by him in his over 20 years of community service. (Photo source: Tatler Singapore)So, under his leadership, the SDSC underwent strategic restructuring and evolved to what it is known today. He even spearheaded the integration of Disability Sports into Team Singapore\u2019s agenda and brought para sports to the attention of the then Singapore Sports Council, enabling SDSC to secure its first government funding.Mr Tan says it was \u201cprobably easier pushing that proverbial rock up a hill\u201d.\u201cSDSC was at that time hard to pigeon hole. We were not thought of as a charity by the National Council of Social Services (NCSS) but as a sports organisation, so they didn\u2019t consider us a good fit. To the Singapore Sports Council, we looked more like a charity than a sports organisation \u2013 again, not a good fit. We didn\u2019t have a consistent track record to speak of. So what alternative did we have?\u00a0 Raise the funds ourselves,\u201d he says.\u00a0Mr Tan turned to \u201cfriends, relatives, acquaintances, business associates, anyone who\u2019s name happened to be on our Rolodex\u201d and they dug deep into their pockets to help.\u00a0In 2001, SDSC was relaunched.\u00a0Driving SDSC to the top of its gameGolden girl Yip Pin Xiu has six gleaming Paralympic medals – five golds and a silver across four Games – under her belt. (Photo source: AFP)\u201cWith this all-important seed money, we started to put in place an infrastructure and a sports programme for the community. But we were not out of the woods yet. We were far from it. Ever so often we would run up against a solid brick wall, bash through that, and we\u2019d come against another in what seemed like a perpetual obstacle course. It came to a point when even our stakeholders advised us to give up and turn our efforts to other better supported causes,\u201d he recalls.In what Mr Tan describes as \u201cour darkest hour\u201d, a voice in the wilderness called out.\u00a0\u201cIt was my old friend and closest ally, the late Frankie Thanapal Sinniah. He turned to me and said, \u2018I will soldier on, alone if I must. I am a person with a disability. If I do not help others like myself, who will?\u2019,\u201d Mr Tan says.Fondly named the face of Paralympic Sport in Singapore, Frankie was the President of SDSC from 2008 to 2012, the year he died. He represented Singapore at its first ever Paralympics in 1988 in Seoul, Korea taking part in swimming and athletics events.In\u00a0 2008 at the Beijing\u00a0Paralympics, Laurentia Tan took the silver for the very first time in Singapore\u2019s history. (Photo source: Yahoo news)\u201cAnd so we soldiered on, bit by bit, brick by brick. Then came that watershed day in\u00a0 2008 – at the Beijing Paralympics, when Yip Pin Xiu won gold and Laurentia Tan silver for the very first time in our nation\u2019s history. I remember packing up after the Games when I got a call from Minister (Vivien) Balakrishnan who signalled that disability sports in Singapore had finally come into its own. Not an off-shoot or less capable half brother anymore, but a full fledged member, claiming its rightful place as an integral part of Team Singapore,\u201d Mr Tan says proudly.And proudly he stands this Wednesday evening as he receives his Lifelong Achievement Award from Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Culture, Community and Youth and Social and Family Development Eric Chua.\u201cTo me, every medal won, every event completed, every challenge surmounted, is as much a tribute to the athletes themselves as it is to the many volunteers and supporters who have gone before them paving the way forward, all united in the single goal of making their journey not only possible but the best that it can be,\u201d Mr Tan sums.\u00a0Join the conversations on TheHomeGround Asia\u2019s Facebook and Instagram, and get the latest updates via Telegram."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Destinations","item":"https:\/\/thehomeground.asia\/destinations\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Singapore","item":"https:\/\/thehomeground.asia\/destinations\/\/singapore\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"The man with a soft spot for the disabled honoured","item":"https:\/\/thehomeground.asia\/destinations\/singapore\/the-man-with-a-soft-spot-for-the-disabled-honoured\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]