A Singapore-based company has devised a study table made of cardboard that not only caters to children of different ages, but is also easy to assemble.
The table comes with a matching stool and a stand for a laptop, tablet or book – all in 10mm sturdy double-wall cardboard.
Design consultancy Chemistry hopes the table will provide underprivileged children with a better learning environment at home, where the lack of space and resources often means that studying is done on the bed or the floor.
The company has been working with three welfare organisations to distribute the table sets for free to families with two or more children aged four to 12, whose monthly per capita household income is less than $650 and where home is a three-room Housing Board flat or smaller.
So far, the company has given 46 sets to beneficiaries of the Society of Sheng Hong Welfare Services, Fei Yue Family Service Centre and Tasek Jurong, a non-profit organisation that helps the socially disadvantaged.
Chemistry plans to fund and distribute 100 sets, each of which costs $50 to produce. Manufactured by home-grown firm Tri-Wall, the tables and stools can each bear up to 100kg in weight.
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Source: The Straits Times, 22 June 2020