Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Princess Eliz­a­beth Cen­tre, Jan Sir­jus­ingh, has urged young peo­ple to choose pos­i­tive paths, point­ing to the ex­am­ple set by stu­dent char­i­ty founder Liam Chan Pak dur­ing an out­reach and Car­ni­val cheer event at the cen­tre on Fri­day.

Sir­jus­ingh said young peo­ple should not un­der­es­ti­mate their abil­i­ty to make a mean­ing­ful dif­fer­ence. “You’re nev­er too young to do some­thing ex­cel­lent, and ex­cel­lence has no bound­aries,” she said.

She added that while the cen­tre re­ceives gov­ern­ment sup­port, do­na­tions re­main crit­i­cal to meet­ing the needs of chil­dren with phys­i­cal dis­abil­i­ties. Sir­jus­ingh said the chil­dren re­quire more than ba­sic care. “De­spite gov­ern­ment sup­port, we still de­pend on do­na­tions be­cause our chil­dren need more than just sur­vival; they need the op­por­tu­ni­ty to grow,” she said.