Stakeholders and Empathy

Stakeholders

1.Tom, 13 years old student,
basketball player in his high school, 
is going through puberty/perspires alot after activity, 
comes from low income family,
wears the same shoes which is torn and tattered;

2. Aunty Ah Su, 55 years old,
rich, wears branded clothes, goes for regular manicure/pedicure
Use branded perfume, Zara
self-centred, vainpot, personal vehicle broke down;

3. Mary, 40years old, train usher
kind-hearted, friendly, helpful
civil servant at SMRT company for over 20years;

4. Miss Susie, 27years old,
Basketball coach in a primary school
pleasant and energetic,- coaches P4 TO P6
does not own a car as she thinks it's not neccesary;

5.Mr Fazil, 43years old,
owner of foodstall and also working in the stall,
friendly but hot-tempered,
owns the food business for over 7 years;

Empathy

I had a busy day in school coaching basketball for my students. After finishing some paperwork at 6.30pm left office to take train to return home. After a few stops later from alighting on the train, a group of teenagers got onto the train. They were students from high school. From the jerseys they were wearing and one of them holding a basketball It was evident they were from a basketball team. As they were making alot of noise, people in the train had their eyes on them. It was a peak hour. And so the train was crowded. The students were perspiring and their shoes were embedded with fresh mud thus giving out unpleasant smell. People who were around them was perturbed by them and were frowning at them. The school image was in jeopardy.

From this experience i learnt that it was important to educate the children about personal hygiene and especially highlight it to them that if being a sport player, extra steps have to be taken to be clean. Most of the time they are unaware of how they smell. And so when I returned to work the next day during my lesson time, as I was concern for my students I decided to make a 2 hours hygiene programme for all students in sports class. During teacher's meeting after having a discussion with the department together with 2 other sport teachers a 2 hour hygiene programme was arranged upon. The motive of the hygiene programme is to emphasize on cleanliness and teach various methods to combat unpleasant smells not only deriving from bodies but also from attires. Furthermore methods to clean the shoes e.g sport shoes. Things that were covered during the conducted programme 1.What items could be brought to use for smelling good, e.g sprays, powder. 2.Always to keep a towel to wipe themselves after game. 3. Methods to keep shoes clean and prevent it from smelling. e.g shoe sprays, drying under the sun. use of insoles. Furthermore, a short brief of what puberty can do, e.g body odours. Lastly, the importance of keeping the school image well by representing oneself with a good image.