Newspaper Review 3

Date: Monday, 8th December
Article: Student gets help for her family and studies
Home, B4.

Overview:
One day after school in March, Siti Umairah sank into a chair and began to sob. Walking by and seeing the gilr crying, Kranji Secondary School principal Maureen Lee asked her what was wrong.
Out porued Siti's tale. For the previous weeks, she has been taking care of her two younger brothers, doing the homework and cooking all their meals, on top of studying for her upcoming O levels. Her mother has been admitted to hospital for severe asthma attacks, and doctors had diagonsed her with an oesophageal submucosal tumour.
Upon hearing this, Madam Lee (Siti's principal), roped in social workers and tapped assistance schemes. The school's parent support group chipped in with food vouchers. Siti and her brother were placed on The Strait Times School Pocket Money Fund. The fund and other bursaries, subsidies and assistance help them travel to school, get uniforms and textbooks.

Reflection:
I am touched by the action of Madam Lee. She roped in social workers and tapped assistance schemes once she knew that her student need help. The school's aprents support group is being helpfult too, chipping in with food vouchers.

Siti is a strong and sensible girl to me. She stays strong even when she feels tired and she never gives up or complains. She takes good care of her brothers so as to lessens the burdens and worries of her mother. She has to juggle her time between handling her studies and taking care of her brothers, which is not an easy task at all. If I am the one who is facing such a situation, I bet I wouldn't know how to react and how to deal with such a situation.

Ruifang :D