It's not easy to be with mom.

Nana Ogawa, a 15-year-old girl from China, was very sad when she saw her mother with a college diploma leave a good kindergarten director to wash dishes in the kitchen of a restaurant in Singapore. Recently, she was forced to stop work because of an arm injury.

She said: "I feel a lot of pressure, but all this is also a kind of motivation. Just because I know my mother's hard work, I will fight for my mother. " Due to the negative news of China's accompanying mother in the media from time to time, some Singaporeans subconsciously labeled her as a "bad woman", and the children all saw the injustice suffered by her mother. Nana Ogawa said, "My mother is not a bad woman."

Nana Ogawa, who came to Singapore two years ago and studied in grade three in a community middle school, spoke about the inner feelings of many China children studying in Singapore.

Nana Ogawa said that he left Changchun, China, to study in Singapore, not entirely because of his own will or his mother's decision, but because "the intermediary spoke Singapore very well".

But Nana Ogawa also understands her mother's painstaking arrangement: there are only a few universities in China, and thousands of troops are crammed into the college entrance examination. Even after graduating from college, it is difficult to find an ideal job if it is not a university. Considering that Singapore is a country that can accompany students, with good public security and bilingual teaching, Nana Ogawa and his mother came.

My mother was able to give up the kindergarten and Chinese school in her hometown and the monthly income of 20,000 yuan to bring Nana Ogawa to Singapore because she listened to the bright future outlined by the intermediary: she could be arranged to go to Singapore and her mother could find a good job. Unexpectedly, when the mother and daughter got off the plane, their dreams were all shattered. The local agency told them that it was "impossible" in the world. Nana Ogawa didn't understand why the same agent said something completely different here and there. As a result, the intermediary here only arranged for her two neighborhood middle schools to take the entrance examination. Although both schools have accepted her, new problems have emerged. The school asked for a sponsorship fee of S $5,000. This is also something that the intermediary has never talked about. The extra cost caught Nana Ogawa and her daughter off guard.

According to the regulations of the Ministry of Education of Singapore, those overseas students who pass the entrance examination of individual schools must donate S $65,438+0,000 to the Ministry of Education as an education fund every year after their student ID cards are approved. In addition, the school will also require overseas students to make cash donations to the school, and the amount of cash varies from school to school.

Nana Ogawa's mother later pleaded with the headmaster, and the headmaster made an exception and refused to accept their sponsorship fee, but the condition was that Nana Ogawa must get A 1 in every subject in the future exam. Nana Ogawa did it. In the past two years, she has never failed her mother's expectations, and she is among the best in every exam. In the year-end exam of grade three this year, her total score ranked first among 200 students in the whole grade.

Now, Nana Ogawa, who is about to reach the age of 16, is about to face a new question: can her mother's Accompanying Reading Certificate be renewed? Nana Ogawa said that the Singapore Immigration Service seems to give orders every day. At first, it was said that children could stay with them until they were 265,438+0 years old, but recently, some people were refused visas at the age of 65,438+05, but some people were already 265,438+0, and their mothers were still with them. Nana Ogawa is worried about what to do if his mother's "companion card" can't be renewed.

According to the relevant regulations of the Immigration Bureau, overseas students can ask their mothers to apply for a "partner card" as long as they obtain a student card issued by the Ministry of Education of Singapore, whether they are studying in a government school or a private school. However, the review criteria for updating the Certificate of Accompanying Reading are not clearly listed in the Regulations. * Indicates that it will decide whether to issue or allow renewal of the "companion card" according to individual circumstances.

In fact, due to the persistent economic downturn and rising unemployment rate in Singapore, it is difficult for "accompanying mothers" to find good jobs in new places. Most of the jobs they can apply for are restaurant waiters, gas station handyman and beauty salon masseurs. And these "accompanying mothers" also need to give their children a stable income, so they have to swallow their voices and dare not be picky.

Someone calculated an account for the accompanying mother. In the first half year from China to Singapore, the accompanying mother has to pay at least 60,000 RMB. The first batch of "accompanying mothers" who came to Singapore thought that children should prepare at least 6,543.8+0,000 yuan to complete the course from the first grade of primary school to the graduation of middle school in Singapore.

Many mothers accompany their children abroad because they are worried that their children are too young and the risk of traveling abroad alone is too great. Singapore government can not only issue "companion certificate", but also issue "work permit". Mothers can look after their children and usually work to earn money. Moreover, Singapore's language barriers are small, and accompanying mothers can adapt quickly. However, judging from the current situation, many "accompanying mothers" have to go home one after another because they can't find suitable jobs and have no financial resources to ensure their children's study. Some "accompanying mothers" can only work hard in foreign countries for their children.