Brushing Up on Education
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Indonesian female migrant workers in Singapore enroll at the Open University. They are preparing for a better future before returning home.
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IT was quite humid in Singapore in the middle of last July. The hot air sneaked into the hall of Indonesia-Singapore school, a venue for new student registration of the Open University.
Sukmawati, 23, stood patiently in the queue. There were still 20 people in front of her. Once in a while she wiped the sweat from her forehead while texting on her mobile phone. She was enrolling as an accounting major. “I want to work in a bank,” she expla
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