Back To School Programme for 100 Children

The future lies in the hands of our younger generations and education forms an important part of their development. However, basic school necessities such as bags, shoes, books and uniforms require money that some Kadasandusun families living in the interior of Sabah could ill-afford.

Learning of their plight, I supported the Buddist Tzu Chi Merit Society of Malaysia New Sprout project for disadvantaged school children from the Seventh Day Advetist Sinar Harapan hostel in Kuilu, Tamparuli Sabah. We equipt 100 Kadasandusun secondary school children with back-to-school supplies that help pave the way for their academic pursuit.

This is a very personal to me. This is a cross-culture, inter-faith CSR project that I initiated to show that Malaysia is indeed a caring society and there are no boundaries for us when it comes to providing education for underprivillaged children.

The guardians of the children bording in the hostel of this project is a group of Chinese Buddist formerly from Malacca, now based in Kota Kinabalu. The beneficiaries are Kadazanduzun children from a Christian orpahnage. They have nothing in common except being Malaysians.

I managed to convince NTV 7 production to go to Kota Kinabalu and cover the Bank's CSR project with the hope to increase NTV 7 Finding Angels viewership base in East Malaysia. This is Finding Angels first programme hosted in East Malaysia. I also managed to get the Bank's staff to regularly visit the hostel on a voluntary basis.