Photo Challenge

(C) Fear

The fear of the dark, being isolated alone, afraid of your surroundings. 

Terry:

We all might've previously fallen into the fear of being alone. It is only natural that we are afraid of ridicule and insults being hurled at us for having no friends. Fortunately, this fear is rarely seen in RV. The strong bonds between students have for the most part eradicated this worry from the lives of RV students. 

Grace:

Firstly,the colour of the picture - black and white, symbolizes the dull and fear in the girl's life. She feels that there isn't any colorful and happy and cheerful things in life, and she is only scared. Secondly, she is sitting alone, she doesn't have any friends to be with her, which contributes to the reason why she is scared. She is stressed yet no one is helping her. She feels hopeless and insecure which leads to fear. Finally, she is hiding her head in her knees, she is afraid to face the reality of things, she wants to escape her harsh world.

Gerald:

She is being isolated and ostracized from the rest of the students.We are fearful of being alone and left out. I hope more students would step out of their comfort zone to attempt to expand their social circle and have more friends.

Xin Yi:

She's in a pathetic state, being isolated at the lockers where no one would notice or find her, embracing herself in fear. Everything around her is in black and white which is also monotonous and mean nothing to her. Life doesn't have any colours anymore. Trying to escape from the evil world alone won't help. She's still waiting for that one person who will come and add colours to her beautiful life, making it even more meaningful.

Poverty In Singapore

An elderly lady collecting used items to recycle. This will seem shocking to other people in the world who thinks that Singapore is a rich, safe and first world country so nothing like this will happen. However, this scenes can be quite common to a fellow Singaporean. We often see the poor going around to collect garbage and sell them to earn themselves a next meal - or do they even have the amount of money for their next meal?







In Singapore which is a first world country, it is highly unlikely that we can find poverty. However, there is still a group of people who are suffering from poverty. This is due to the fact that Singapore has a high cost of living. Those Singaporeans that have an unstable income, will then struggle to pay for the living expenses. Then, there will be this vicious poverty cycle that will continue to keep the poor in poverty. 




The children of the poor will have to quit school at a small age to work and help to support the family income. This will then also affect the children because they are often not able to do better than their parents due to lack of access to knowledge and educational support. This vicious cycle will then continue which causes them to be unable to get out of poverty.




There are a few factors on how we can help the poor with little effort.




- When we see the poor elderly or disabled selling tissue packets on the streets, we can help them out by being more generous and just give the the money but not take the tissue. 




-To help the poor cleaners who make Singapore a clean and green place, we can cooperate by not littering and encourage them when we see them. 




- For those poor begging on the streets, we can do a part by giving them some money spare change as doing a donation.




- We can do monthly donations to those charity organisations which help the poor and disabled. We can do commitment work and join organisations which give out food to the poor. This way, we can do community work and also give out a helping hand for those in need.