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Coronavirus Digitalisation: Children from low-income groups
Inadequate home learning space, lack of support among hurdles
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Ms Sarah, a single parent who declined to give her full name, helping her 10-year-old son with his home-based learning on Wednesday. She received a laptop under the NEU-PC Plus scheme after a referral by non-profit group AMP Singapore.
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Yuen Sin, Hariz Baharudin
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On good days during the circuit breaker, Mary (not her real name), 15, could attend her home-based lessons punctually and hand in her homework on time.
But on other days, she waited for more than four hours to use her 21-year-old brother's laptop, as it was the only computer at home.
