Prior to receiving her O-level results, the Crescent Girls’ School student, Benecia Tang, 16 had secured a place in Singapore Polytechnic’s (SP) School of Business.
When she was in Secondary 3, Benecia started a project on community marketplace app Carousell selling customisable keychains and badges, using skills she learnt in her co-curricular activity, the Innovation and Enterprise Club. However, she had trouble reaching out to her target audience at that time, and tried to solve it by looking for a job or an internship in the field of marketing.
She added that her aim is to start a business before she graduates from SP, and wants to eventually set up a social enterprise for children with learning difficulties.
Benecia was officially diagnosed with dyslexia at 10, when she had trouble with reading and spelling. Her two younger sisters, who are now 12 and 10, were also diagnosed with the same condition at around the same period.
Through her planned social enterprise, she wants to teach children how to live and learn with dyslexia. She also wants to try and help children identify their condition earlier.
She knew that she was not on the same level as everyone else, and felt somewhat held back by her dyslexia.
“When I’m able to, I would like to level the playing field for people like me and my sisters,” Benecia said.
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Source: The Straits Times, 15 January 2019