Did you read the news about a couple with 6 children and their income is only about $1500. The children get aids from their schools and the family gets support from some agencies and kind-hearted people.
Nowadays it is rare to have big families with many children. However, several decades back it was different. During my childhood we lived in a kampong consisting of attap and zinc-roofed houses. Many of my neighbours had 4 or more children. My parents had 4.
In past years I have met a few of these children when I went back to the temple in the area during the second month of the lunar new year to watch the street opera there.
There was a well near my house and sometimes you would see housewives there washing clothes using the well water or children bathing.
Nowadays it is rare to have big families with many children. However, several decades back it was different. During my childhood we lived in a kampong consisting of attap and zinc-roofed houses. Many of my neighbours had 4 or more children. My parents had 4.
In past years I have met a few of these children when I went back to the temple in the area during the second month of the lunar new year to watch the street opera there.
There was a well near my house and sometimes you would see housewives there washing clothes using the well water or children bathing.
This is not an original photo. I pasted the well there. What do you think was there in the original photo?
2 comments:
A standing tap
Right, it is a water standpipe. I will put up the picture in the next post.
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