What a disadvantaged child really needs?

What are the issues and challenges?

• Poverty affects a child’s intellectual and social development.
  • Comparison with their better off peers may negatively impact their self-esteem.
  • They may often lack proper parental guidance when their parents work long hours.
  • Children from lower-income families are more likely to underperform in school due to a lack of family resources. ⁴

What you can do?

• Be involved in character development programmes and mentoring children. Find out more about being a volunteer amongst children here
• Support equal opportunities for learning and enrichment
• Read more and share about how:
  • MWS helps families to build stronger relationships through the Positive Parenting Programme here
  • Children in poverty can be better supported here.