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Record number of students expected to collect free used textbooks
Channel NewsAsia - 2 hours 21 minutes ago
SINGAPORE: NTUC FairPrice expects a record turnout of students to collect free used textbooks. It is expecting 12,000 students this year, a 50 per cent increase from last year.
It is that time of the year again to buy textbooks for the new academic year.
And those in the low—income group are given priority to take home free textbooks under NTUC FairPrice’s "Used Textbook Project".
In fact, some 9,000 students were invited to be among the first to choose from over 150,000 textbooks.
The organisers expect more people to take to this programme because of the economic downturn.
Helping out in this project are more than 200 students, who took time off during their school holidays to sort out the textbooks.
Zainudin Nordin, director of NTUC’s Care and Share, said: "We know that the current economic downturn will have an impact on the ground, and that there will be more workers and members of the Union who will be affected. That’s the reason why we are doing this in a bigger way. And we are coming in together as a labour movement — all the social enterprise, the community, NTUC — in a big way to help."
NTUC assistant secretary—general Seng Han Thong said: "We noted that the used textbook project is very popular among the community, especially the low income group. In fact, many look forward to it."
The next day for collecting free textbooks is on Tuesday. This will be done at Yio Chu Kang Secondary, Swiss Cottage Secondary, Saint Anthony’s Canossian Secondary and Zhang De Primary School.
— CNA/ir
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