Seven secondary schools raise nearly $28,000 for ST School Pocket Money Fund

To raise funds for their less well-off peers, students from two secondary schools made use of their crafting skills to create items they could sell to their classmates.

- Tang Yi Qing

At Ngee Ann Secondary School, the school's art club set aside time during its weekly three-hour sessions to make keychains, scrunchies, pins and photo cards by hand.

Meanwhile, a class of Secondary 3 students from Queenstown Secondary School spent three months preparing a fund-raiser, which took place over a week in August.

Besides setting up game booths where fellow students could compete in speed stacking and ball tossing to win prizes, they also crocheted pouches, bracelets and animal keychains that they sold for between $2 and $5.

Together, the two schools raised almost $1,400 for The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund (STSPMF), part of wider donation drives by schools here for the charity, which supports some 10,000 children a year.

STSPMF said seven secondary schools raised nearly $28,000 for the fund in 2024, though there may be other schools that have made their donations anonymously.

While some of the seven schools relied on handicrafts, others like Pathlight School (Ang Mo Kio) raised money for STSPMF through donation drives.