31 Jalan Selamat
SINGAPORE 418561
3th July 2008
Mr Mah Bow Tan
Minister of National Development
Member of Tampines GRC
Dear Mr Tan ,
Proposal to use playground suggestions to make it more user friendly
I am a student of Pasir Ris Secondary School and I live at kembangan although I do not stay at tampines my school is at tampines . There was a school literature project to design a playground designed to suit a special needs group.Our group chose *down-syndrome children*.As we feel that that is the group of children that we need to focus on.The research done by my teammates and I showed that unlike most children with down-syndrome are far less fortunate and that they require more special aid as compared to other children.
Often down-syndrome children are left out due to their condition and left out as outcasts, thus causing them to be teased and mocked by other children for being different. Our playground would be used to allow them to be able to play like every other child and have an enjoyable and enriching childhood.
This playground would make the playground more user friendly for down syndrome kids. The playground is basicly a place for all children to have fun and play.
~No matter what illness you have, you should not be excluded~
This is the motto we have been working with. In our present playground,the playground is not *friendly* towards disabled children .I agree that they are the minority and everything cannot be made to suit ones personal need but are they not children, do they not have the right to enjoy their youth and have the same amount of fun any other children,do they not have the privilege?
That is why we suggest that more safety measures be installed so that the disabled would have the same amount of fun any other children can possibly have.
Yours faithfully,
Kuah chuan yin
