During the recent Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, our homegrown paralympian Yip Pin Xiu did our country proud by winning the gold medal for the backstroke swimming event. 

However her prize money for achieving such a feat is a prize money of S$200,000, a far cry from what Joseph Schooling received during his gold medal butterfly win in Rio Olympics in 2016. 

Pin Xiu worked just as hard, if not harder than any able bodied olympians to achieve where she is, winning the gold medal against the world's best and glorifying our nation on World stage. 

Such practice by the sports governing body to reward our paralympians a fraction of what olympians get is an act of discrimination.

We therefore petition for Pin Xiu and any other paralympians to be rewarded equally with our olympians as our nation pride ourselves as equality.