Block 297 Bedok South Avenue 3
#02-04 Bedok Court
Singapore 469297
SUGGESTIONS TO IMPROVEMENTS OF PLAYGROUNDS.
Dear Mr. Mah Bow Tan,
I’m writing this letter in hope of providing some suggestions to improve the playgrounds in Tampines after getting feedbacks from the neighborhood. All had heard of your gregarious ways of handling problems that had cropped up in the years of your leadership. I believe by providing you with the necessary information about the playgrounds, and by giving some suggestions on it may help you better in this matter.
Let me start first by introducing you what our previous project was all about. We had to design different playgrounds for different groups of children that have different needs. There’s a playground for children that have emotional scars, children that have been abused before, handicapped children and more. For our group, we did a playground that is designed for children with emotional scars. They are a group of children that had undergone an abusive environment, or an environment without any care or love. We found out that these children likes to relax in their free time, and being children, loves to play in playgrounds too. According to our research, an environment that seems friendly and colorful is the perfect environment for these children with emotional scars to be in, thus, we had built our playground in such a way that we hope it could spread optimistic messages to those children.
These findings had led our team to reflect about the playgrounds in our estate, mainly Tampines. We believe that there are a certain amount of children that will have different needs from other normal ones. Though the playgrounds of Tampines are all nicely-built with grand designs, however, it doesn’t meet the needs of certain children. Other normal children could find the joy and happiness in the playgrounds but for those with problems, they just can’t seem to enjoy themselves as much. But, by renovating those playgrounds to those that could reach the requirements or the needs to these special children, they could now have as much fun as normal children, and they could hang out together too.
We had received several feedbacks on the playgrounds in Tampines these past few months, and upon investigations, we realized that the main problem; children not being able to have fun in the playgrounds. This is a worrying matter that is increasing everyday. More and more children are with problems nowadays and they can’t seem to find a place that could understand how they feel and how they behave in the way they do. Parents are concerned that their children couldn’t enjoy themselves and being unhappy about it. This may lead to the children feeling neglected by the society and thus, becomes inferior.
After several discussions, we have come up with ways to savage the situation. Firstly, we could renovate those playgrounds into a style that suits those children. By doing so, we could ensure that they are now feeling much accepted into the society and could live their lives happily. The playground could now be their hang-out place, and even become their favorite place to be too. Secondly, we could build some posts with optimistic messages to cheer the children up, and ensuring that they are not alone in this world, there are helping hands through-out the world that are more than willing to help them in their situation.
I’m sure that your experience in leadership could help to save this situation that is occurring everyday. I thank you for taking your time off your busy schedule to read this letter.
Yours truly,
Novrianti.
