While many high school students whom are busy with their studies for the public exam, they also start making the career planning for their further life.

Monet (pseudonym) is a F.5 student who grows up in a grassroots family. She’s been loving drawing since childhood, especially good at oil painting. Therefore, she chooses to study visual arts as one of the high school elective subjects, hoping to turn her interest into a professional.

However, when it comes to learning art either for leisure or professional, it’s never been easy given the art materials and supplies are usually expensive. Also, with the advancement of technology, digitalization is also the trend for art creation, and people are used to using tablets for sketching and interacting with each other. Thence, all these additional expenses are definitely a financial burden to Monet’s family.

Unfortunately, Monet’s family financial situation has been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and sadly her parents are difficult to support Monet on her artistic development under this situation. Monet feels deeply anxious and self-blame, even doubts whether her artistic skills can keep abreast of the times. As a result, she starts her part-time job in order to eke out the expenses of art materials to ease the family financial burden.

Our social worker learned of this situation and helped Monet apply for the support from “Treasure Trove” to purchase the tablet and other art materials, which allowed her to reduce the need for part-time jobs and focus on her studies again. Finally, Monet is now happy and assuredly to develop her artistic potential, and build up a solid foundation for her future artistic development.