SINGAPORE - For the past nine years, 68-year-old Madam Ng Beng Tiaw has been the main caregiver for her teenage granddaughter who has special needs.
Since February this year , Xin Hui has been able to spend time at a new after-school care centre for children with special needs, which is located in the MINDS Woodlands Gardens School compound.Xin Hui is one of 23 students attending the centre run by the Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore , which was officially opened on Thursday . It first began operations on Jan 2 this year.
Madam Ng became the main caregiver for Xin Hui and her 14-year-old sister after their parents divorced around 2009, but had to devote even more time when the girls' father died last year. The centre has been a godsend for Ms Ruhama Halimi as well, who is the main caregiver for her 12-year-old son who also has GDD.