Her struggles with dyslexia inspired this social entrepreneur to start an inclusive learning centre for kids

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Mint Lim founded School of Concepts to offer quality education to children with different types of learning needs. The social entrepreneur – and first Singapore fellow of the Cartier Women’s Initiative – shares her story.

and a tutoring business helping children in low-income neighbourhoods. Through her tutoring work, she discovered that there were many children who were just like her, who had a harder time coping in school.

Lim describes SOC as a “double bottom line business”. “We set aside 30 per cent of enrolment for children from low-income families, and we provide them with in-house subsidies from our revenue to support their learning.” The school also practices inclusivity by hiring people with intellectual or physical disabilities, including a classroom assistant with selective mutism.

She sees the recognition given by CWI as first an affirmation of the work done by SOC and its people. “SOC is not just about me, it’s about a team of wonderful people who have so much heart in what they do, and who are all veterans in their own right.” SOC has also tapped into tech and artificial intelligence to launch its first mobile learning app – the Alphabet Explorer. The app – which is equipped with augmented reality and voice recognition functions – aims to help young children learn and explore the alphabet in a fun and interactive way. It will allow SOC to reach more children beyond geographical barriers. “Accessibility is a motivating factor for why we went into tech.

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