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The Lives They Live
From kampung school teacher to community volunteer
While the pioneer leaders were the original architects of Singapore, everyday heroes helped build society here. This is another story about such people in the series The Lives They Live.
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Rahimah Rashith
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She was, by her own reckoning, shy and nervous and lucky to be accepted when, barely out of secondary school, she applied to be a teacher.
Eighteen-year-old G. Rajalaximi found it tough when she started as a teacher at Boon Lay Primary School in 1966, with some students barely four years younger than her.
