A few weeks ago, I learned about a heart-warming event through a Mandarin radio programme. In a few days time on 13th December, a family service centre here in Singapore called Chu Ai will be holding a special event to touch the underprivileged children whose parents are currently serving time in prison. These children will be going on an outing and volunteer taxi drivers will fetch them from their homes to the designated locations for that day. Subsequently some car owners called the radio station to check if they could help even though they were not taxi drivers. Wow! What an act of love and care.
Through their contact with these underprivileged children, staff members of the family centre noticed that when a parent goes into prison, the family will distance themselves from friends and relatives because of shame and embarrassment. Sometimes, they may even be ostracised. The pain they go through is tough enough; no one should despise them. They need people who would come along side and help them to journey through the darkest and most painful time of their lives. They want to know that there is hope when they see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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