Schoolkids' parents shudder as Hari Raya approaches

PETALING JAYA: With Hari Raya Aidilfitri fast approaching, parents of school-going children are getting increasingly nervous.

“We haven’t even finished buying their school items and it’s already time for Raya,” several people interviewed by FMT lamented.The prospect of preparing for the biggest annual religious festival in the country has weighed heavily on the minds of many already burdened by the high cost of getting their children ready for the new school year, which began earlier this month.

“Many are unlikely to celebrate much because, in the current climate, each child costs us thousands of ringgit. It is not like in the good old days,” he told FMT.A grocery store worker who only wanted to be known as Mai, 51, said the usual festive purchases have become much more costly this year. Meanwhile, automobile factory worker Abdul Rahman Latif, 40, is broken-hearted at the prospect of disappointing his five children.

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