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ST School Pocket Money Fund receives $162k from consultant's estate

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Ms Makkink, affectionately known to loved ones as Yoka, worked as a consultant and was a loyal ST reader who frequently donated to various charities to help children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Before Ms Johanna Makkink died at the age of 65 in 2016, she bequeathed a portion of her estate to The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund.

While legacy giving counts as one of the more uncommon forms of donation made to the fund, several others have also bequeathed legacy gifts or planned future donations. MS KAROLIEN MAKKINK, 55, sister of Ms Johanna Makkink, fondly called Yoka, who left a portion of her estate to The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund before she died in 2016.

"My medical condition is not life-threatening but, at that point, the pain was too much. That's when I thought that I may just leave this world at any moment and I should make financial bequests," he said.

 

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