Projects

Cardiovascular disease accounts for just over 32% of deaths globally, yet the vast majority of the people most at risk have never attempted a chest compression. The gap between what basic cardiac life support training can achieve and what communities actually receive is not a knowledge problem. It is a distribution problem.

As a certified BCLS instructor, I founded this initiative to address exactly that gap. The focus from the outset was rural India, particularly villages where emergency medical access is severely limited or absent. I also targeted high-risk environments, most notably factories, where the probability of a cardiac event is elevated and the likelihood of a trained bystander being present is near zero.

The hardest constraint was cohort diversity. Training factory workers, village residents, university students, police officers, and hospital staff within the same overarching programme required a curriculum flexible enough to be calibrated without sacrificing rigour. I built a standardised playbook so that certified instructors could replicate sessions independently.

After more than 20 sessions across 5+ states and 2 countries, the outcome: 95% practical competency even among cohorts with no prior emergency response exposure. Community Empowerment Award, 2023.

The brief was deceptively simple: make it run. A 400-delegate, seven-school, multi-day international conference spanning multiple buildings and rooms, with 70+ volunteers who had never done this before.

As Director of Operations I was responsible for everything that made the programme physically function. Registration and delegate arrivals, room management and turnover, transport logistics, tech setup, catering, security, and incident response.

I ran tabletop simulations of delegate arrival bottlenecks, room-change cascades, and emergency scenarios weeks before the event. Checklists and run-of-show schedules were designed not for ideal conditions but for the three most likely things to go wrong. When problems arose, the team had clear ownership and escalation paths.

Migrant workers in Singapore are among the most underrepresented and, in practice, most frequently exploited people in the country. This campaign began with the premise that better access to basic goods and information can make a material difference.

The first phase was volunteering. I spent 50+ hours working directly with It's Raining Raincoats, a Singapore-based NGO that coordinates direct aid to migrant workers. That knowledge shaped every decision in the campaign that followed.

The second phase was the school drive. Over four months, I organised a donation drive at Tanglin Trust School that collected over 1,800 items across five categories. Every logistical step was designed to ensure goods reached workers directly.

The third phase is ongoing. Building a website to help migrant workers understand their legal rights. The infrastructure is designed to be reused, not retired.