There are still 20 days to go on a crowd-funding campaign to raise money to send a book of stories of survival from LGBT Singaporeans to social service centers, but the project has raised double its intended target already.

The campaign to send I Will Survive to Singapore’s Family Service Centres (FSCs) exceeded its initial $1,000 (US dollars, â‚¬756) target during its first weekend on crowd-funding website Indiegogo.

‘As a social worker myself, I know the importance of social service professionals having the right skills to do their work,’ said the book’s editor Leow Yangfa.

‘June is traditionally LGBT Pride Month worldwide, and in Singapore, we will be coming together to celebrate the freedom to love at Pink Dot on 29 June 2013.

‘To mark the occasion, I would like to raise funds to send a copy of the book I Will Survive to each of the FSCs, as well as the respective professional bodies for social workers, counsellors and psychologists in Singapore.’

There are 40 FSCs in neighborhoods across Singapore and they are usually the first port of call for family difficulties. They offer counseling and a suicide prevention service.

The book is relevant because its features the true confessions of people who reached their lowest ebb and lived to tell the tale, and was inspired after the suicide of a gay man who was friends with the editor, Leow.

The extra money raised will now be used to send the book to counseling centers at universities, polytechnics and junior colleges in Singapore.

This is the second time this year that a crowd-funding project to raise money for the LGBT community has surpassed its target.

A campaign to raise money to allow gay couple Gary Lim and Kenneth Chee to mount a constitutional challenge to the law that criminalizes gay sex in Singapore has now more than doubled its initial target of $50,000 (US dollars, â‚¬37,800) to raise $106,319 (â‚¬80,400) from 933 funders.