International Relations Office

Awards & Scholarships for Outgoing Students

Tan Mingwei Global Community Service Grant

Tan Mingwei's Biography

Mingwei was a medical student in Cambridge University when she passed away in an accident in London. She was 20.

Mingwei loved sports and the arts. She represented her junior college in archery during her pre-university years, and won several prizes at international competitions. She was also the President of the Cambridge University Karate Club. She represented the University in karate in many tournaments, and earned a coveted Half Blue, the highest award for the sport at the university. She was also the squash captain of her college, Peterhouse.

Mingwei loved reading, listening to music, going to the movies, watching plays and attending art exhibitions. She also enjoyed taking photographs.

During her university and school holidays, Mingwei went on a few volunteer trips overseas. She completed a medical attachment at a HIV-AIDS clinic in Botswana, and volunteered with mobile and neurosurgery clinics in Nepal under the Cambridge Mountain Trust. When she was a student at Raffles Girls’ School, she taught English to underprivileged minority children in Taiwan. She also taught handicapped archers when in Raffles Junior College. She was greatly inspired by the overseas volunteer trips that she went on.

At a memorial service held in Singapore, the following eulogies were delivered:

 

 

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