{"id":14865,"date":"2025-11-05T09:54:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging2.iclickwebdesign.sg\/doverpark\/?p=14865"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:57:13","slug":"ng-lay-suan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging2.iclickwebdesign.sg\/doverpark\/2025\/11\/05\/ng-lay-suan\/","title":{"rendered":"Kopi and Kindness: How her father\u2019s passing motivated Lay Suan to Volunteer"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"14865\" class=\"elementor elementor-14865\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b5fa80 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6b5fa80\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e9f4ed0 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"e9f4ed0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ca3fd24 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ca3fd24\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"margin-bottom-30\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back in 2008, Ms Ng Lay Suan experienced firsthand the compassion of palliative care. Deeply moved by the tender care and comfort shown to her late father and her family through one of their most difficult times, she made a quiet promise to herself: one day, she would return as a volunteer to give back the same kindness that carried her through.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The years that followed her father\u2019s passing were not easy. She faced her own battle with cancer while keeping up with the demands of raising her child, but that promise never left her heart. In 2015, seven years after her father\u2019s passing, she joined Dover Park Hospice as a volunteer.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now in her ninth year of service, Ms Ng is a familiar face that brings both heart and ingenuity to the patients she serves. On weekday mornings, she can often be found in Day Care, taking kopi orders during \u201cLim Kopi\u201d sessions. With her engineering background, she even designed a receipt label system to make food and drink orders easier for patients and staff.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For her, volunteering is more than duty \u2014 it is a way of honouring her father. Every now and then, she remembers him fondly as a night-shift taxi driver with a mischievous streak, waking the family at 3am for late-night durian feasts. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cVolunteering at Dover Park Hospice brings me closer to the good memories of my father during his stay here,\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> she shares.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In every cup of kopi served, every small act of care, Ms Ng honours both her father\u2019s legacy and the kindness her family once received through their hardest days.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8c5b431 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"8c5b431\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/staging2.iclickwebdesign.sg\/doverpark\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/toast-768x512.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-14864\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging2.iclickwebdesign.sg\/doverpark\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/toast-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/staging2.iclickwebdesign.sg\/doverpark\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/toast-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging2.iclickwebdesign.sg\/doverpark\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/toast-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/staging2.iclickwebdesign.sg\/doverpark\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/toast-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/staging2.iclickwebdesign.sg\/doverpark\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/toast-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-90883f0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"90883f0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<style>\n    .categories-link {\n        display: none;\n    }\n    \n    .posted-on {\n    display: flex !important;\n;\n    justify-content: center;\n}\n<\/style>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6686ca8 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"6686ca8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2008, Ms Ng Lay Suan experienced firsthand the compassion of palliative care. 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