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SINGAPORE : Some 300 ex-offenders and their families celebrated Father's Day on Sunday, in an event organised by the Industrial & Services Co-operative Society (ISCOS).
ISCOS is an initiative by the Ministry of Home Affairs to help ex-offenders start all over again, after they have been released from prison.
The Society said children often face the stigma attached to their parents' past.
So it is important to help them look up to their parents as their life heroes and role models.
Freda Tham, executive director, Industrial and Services Co-operative Society, said: "This Family Day is to help them to strengthen their family ties, get them all together, on a Sunday morning, and especially on Father's Day, so that they can come together and hopefully, fathers will play a Super Hero figure - that is our theme for the day - and they will become a good influence in their children's life." - CNA/ms
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