The school’s community service scheme has ended, but over a third of the students who took part in it now volunteer on their own at nearby welfare groups.
Students from Bowen Secondary in Hougang still reach out, for instance, by playing sports with special needs kids.
They were in last year’s ChANgeMakers in the Community scheme, part of the Values in Action (VIA) programme, run by the school at one of the three welfare organisations across the road: AWWA School, Bright Vision Hospital and Mindsville@Napiri.
Said Secondary 3 student N. Shri Raman, 14, who is also still volunteering: “People who need glasses have special needs, and we don’t think they are different, so we should not think special needs children are different either.”
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Source: The Straits Times, 24 July 2017