Chris's letter for Mr Mah

Pasir Ris Secondary School

390 Tampines Street 21

July 21, 2008

To minister Mah bow Tan Minister of National Development,
Member of Tampines GRC.

Proposal of playground building


Dear Mr Mah,


I would like to first complement about your designs of the playgrounds in the Tampines area as the designs are really nice and it is pretty and colourful thus attracting many children to go there and have fun there.

However, there are some problems that need to be looked into. Our group of playground designers have comfirmed that the playgrounds in the tampines are is not safe for children born with Down Syndrome, as many of them were borned with weak hearts, hearing problems, eye problems, skeletal problems and skin disorders.that is why even a fall fall which is no harm to a normal child may cause serious harm to children borned with Down Syndrome.

Our group of designers and I thus have specially designed a playground for the children with special needs. An example would be that instead of using stairs we changed it into ramps, for the handle bars we added a rough layer of grip onto it, so that in case the children’s hands are wet or it is wet with rain, the child will not slip and fall. At the bottom of the slide there will also be foam covering to cushion the children when they slide down, gaps will be minimised to ensure that the children will not slip through the gap and fall right through it.

Thank you for taking the time to look through this letter, we hope that you will take some of this ideas into consideration as this cater to the needs of children borned with Down Syndrome, thank you for looking into this matter once again.

Yours truly,
Chris Ng,
Student,
Pasir Ris Secondary School