{"id":62,"date":"2020-02-03T09:10:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T09:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/giving\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2020-04-14T04:54:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T04:54:37","slug":"a-legacy-of-giving","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/giving\/why-give\/a-legacy-of-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"A Legacy of Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"legacy-info\">\n<h3>A Legacy of Giving<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NUS Medicine owes its inception to the vision, efforts and philanthropy of Singapore\u2019s pioneers, led by local businessman and philanthropist Tan Jiak Kim in the early 1900s. In September 1904, Tan led a group of representatives of the Chinese and other non-European communities, and petitioned the Governor of the Straits Settlements, Sir John Anderson, to establish a medical school in Singapore. This philanthropic legacy is very much in the DNA of our School. 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