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CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School holds record-setting fund-raiser
By Wong Mun Wai, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 30 March 2008 1949 hrs

 
 
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SINGAPORE: More than 1,800 people ran round the clock over the weekend to raise funds for CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School.

This fund-raiser, which was organised to help rebuild and renovate the school, has also set a new record.

In celebration of the school's 75th birthday, students and alumni forked out S$50 per person in a run to raise cash for new school facilities.

Their effort also surpassed a previous world record set in the UK in 2005 where 801 people ran a relay of 4x100 metres in 24 hours.

The school has made it into the Singapore Book of Records.


- CNA/so

 

 



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