Lee Kuan Yew donated $10 milion towards a bilingual fund

Do you know that Mr Lee Kuan Yew personally donated $10 million towards a bilingual fund called Lee Kuan Yew Fund for Bilingualism which he launched in 2011 to help kids learn more than one language early on? 

At that time, he also released his book called “My Lifelong Challenge: Singapre’s Bilingual Journey”, which tells of his lifelong goal to revamp Singaporeans’ spoken languages from a variety dialects to English and a mother tongue. 

200 copies of this title were also autographed by him and sold for $10,000 each, the proceeds from the sale of which went to this bilingualism fund. 

Photo: Mr Lee seen here taking a break from autographing 200 copies of his book, Lee Kuan Yew: The Man And His Ideas, which raised $2 million for charity.