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14-07-2015, 06:10 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2015...rs-draws-flak/ (http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2015/07/msf-ministers-post-on-cardboard-collectors-draws-flak/)
One of the strongest reaction to Mr Tan Chuan-Jin’s post was from Mr Gilbert Goh, who works with Transitioning.org, a self-help and counselling set-up.
“We did two cardboard collections with a elderly woman at Chinatown late last year and her experience told us that it is not as fun as Minister Tan would suggest,” Mr Goh posted on his Facebook page.
Mr Goh said he has also heard of two elderly cardboard collectors who lost their lives on the streets in traffic accidents.
“The cardboard collector we met has two grown-up sons but both are struggling and to lessen their burden she has being collecting cardboard for the past decade,” Mr Goh explained. “She earns not more than $20 a day collecting cardboard and sell it to the main collector nearby.”
“She also has to compete with PRC collectors nowadays and has to wake up earlier so that she has the first bite at the cardboard before it is all snatched away.
“Our belief is that our elderly should not even be doing such tough manual work in our prosperous first world economy even though some may enjoy the work for personal reason.
“I have travelled widely to many first world countries and have never see their elderly work as hard as ours in their twilight years.”
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?210482-TCJ-s-highly-idiotic-attempt-to-white-wash-cardboard-people&goto=newpost).
http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2015...rs-draws-flak/ (http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2015/07/msf-ministers-post-on-cardboard-collectors-draws-flak/)
One of the strongest reaction to Mr Tan Chuan-Jin’s post was from Mr Gilbert Goh, who works with Transitioning.org, a self-help and counselling set-up.
“We did two cardboard collections with a elderly woman at Chinatown late last year and her experience told us that it is not as fun as Minister Tan would suggest,” Mr Goh posted on his Facebook page.
Mr Goh said he has also heard of two elderly cardboard collectors who lost their lives on the streets in traffic accidents.
“The cardboard collector we met has two grown-up sons but both are struggling and to lessen their burden she has being collecting cardboard for the past decade,” Mr Goh explained. “She earns not more than $20 a day collecting cardboard and sell it to the main collector nearby.”
“She also has to compete with PRC collectors nowadays and has to wake up earlier so that she has the first bite at the cardboard before it is all snatched away.
“Our belief is that our elderly should not even be doing such tough manual work in our prosperous first world economy even though some may enjoy the work for personal reason.
“I have travelled widely to many first world countries and have never see their elderly work as hard as ours in their twilight years.”
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?210482-TCJ-s-highly-idiotic-attempt-to-white-wash-cardboard-people&goto=newpost).