Bob Singh reflects on his journey from poverty to providing for basketball-playing kids in need
As a kid, Bob Singh would have been a great candidate for the charitable program he now runs to help get kids involved in sports despite financial barriers.
As an adult, Singh's hard work as a geologist helped him retire early following the discovery of a significant gold deposit in Northern Ontario, and he's since turned his attention to work with The Singh Foundation, which he launched in 2022 to"just let the kids play" in Surrey and surrounding cities.
At a year-end camp June 11, close to 100 kids from five elementary schools filled the BC Prep Academy gym in Newton for a day of basketball organized by Emerson Murray and Jumpshot Generosity, which works with The Singh Foundation to run after-school hoops programs. Brad Newell, the King of Floors in Surrey and an early investor in Great Bear Resources, has been friends with Singh for 15 years.
For close to 20 years Singh has coached basketball at Surrey schools including Johnston Heights and Frank Hurt, who in 2020 made the provincial championship tournament for the first time in 28 years.
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