Susy Chia

Susy is an educationist like our founding president. She has been actively involved with SWA since she joined the association in 1956. SWA was then known as Siglap Girls’ Club and in 1991, Susy became the second President of SWA.

Susy had been involved with the Singapore Vision Care Program (SVP), an initiative for seniors in the early detection and prevention of any eye disorders, thus improving their vision and quality of life. SVP was mooted and launched by SWA Founding President, the late Mrs Seow Peck Leng in April 1990.

In 2001, Susy was elected President of the Federation of Asia-Pacific Women’s Association (FAWA) during the Convention in Jakarta, Indonesia. Susy, FAWA International President hosted the 2004 FAWA Convention in Singapore. SWA board members together with all FAWA delegates were honored to be invited to the Istana for Tea with Mrs. Nathan, wife of our then President of Singapore, Mr. S R Nathan.

During her term, Susy witnessed many successes of the various SWA projects and the Miss Singapore Pageant fundraising project.