by admin | Aug 20, 2019
Last school break, Closing The Gap Malaysia made their way to Taylor’s University to beat the odds!
What does this mean? Closing The Gap (CTG) Malaysia is an organisation who aims to improve access to higher education for young people from underrepresented backgrounds. They provide support for post-schooling options for their esteemed Scholars, personalised mentoring and career guidance to help them achieve their fullest potential.
We honoured to be given a chance to host their Critical Thinking workshop by an established philosopher Hazman Baharom, where the scholars were challenged to practice critical reasoning (a key skill of the future- or the present). Scholars were required to disect tough articles that tackled current issues regarding the Khat controversy, Lynas, ICERD and so on. It’s amazing to see how these young people, high school and Pre-U students tried their best to apply what they’ve learnt and presented their findings in front of a crowd. It was certainly a very practical and hands on workshop where the students took away valuable lessons. Throughout, CTG also had their mentors come over, not only to guide the students through these brainy activities, but also to share their lives and build relationships.
Moreover, the scholars also had the opportunity to have a lunch chat with Dato Sri’ Nazir Razak and the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Teach For Malaysia who both shared a bit about their life learnings, ambitions, personal experiences and jobs of the future.
Following this, Nathaniel Tan and Deborah Chow from Engage Education, both committed and experienced in Education, was present to share about their life journey, tips on studying effectively and strategies to enter top universities.
To sum up, it was a heavy yet productive day for the scholars, guest speakers and mentors. CTG is making impact for the younger generation! Do find out more about them here: https://www.facebook.com/ClosingTheGapMalaysia/ and support them in any way you could!
by admin | Aug 16, 2019
In conjunction with Merdeka Day, our Mini Entrepreneurship Club students from various PPR communities are going to sell some of their homemade products! Do come and check them out!
by admin | Aug 16, 2019
The main objective of the event is to
- Expose the underprivileged children from PPR Communities to various career paths.
- Ensure that the children receive more opportunities to learn outside their classrooms.
- Creating Civic Awareness as the children learn to care for one another throughout the field trips.
Please contact Elsie Yan Zhou Ong (M:+60122557494)
by admin | Jul 30, 2019
Inspiring Children to an Array of Career Paths!
A person should never be defined by their career choice or job title. Similarly, a child should never be defined by their ability to score well in their studies.
Last weekend, Taylor’s Community collaborated with PechaKucha Petaling Jaya as they launched their educative pilot initiative for its 10th anniversary. Through this program, Pecha Kucha brought in speakers across industries, from journalism, theatre to engineering, to engage with the 100 underserved school going children bringing together professionals who were volunteers and children from the underprivileged community. This program’s goal is to expose children to a wide range of career paths through various short workshop and equip them with real life skills beyond formal schooling.
With this focus, the impact made on the community was direct. The children had the chance to engage with the PechaKucha Petaling Jaya network of speakers, who openly shared their expertise and experience, and transferred their knowledge to the children. These Workshops/Lessons were hands on and experiential. Besides that, all the classes were taught in Bahasa Malaysia, catering to the demographics as the children could understand better, resulting in a more immersive lesson.
This entire program adopted the methodology designed by the IMC Weekend School from Amsterdam, that is centred on professionals inspiring students about their industries.
Though only in its weekend pilot program for an upcoming 3-year program, results made over the weekend were positive:
Seeing this impact, we are truly honored to have worked with PechaKucha Petaling Jaya. Moreover, we are looking forward to work together again to make greater impact for our next generation. YOU CAN TOO! “If you’re a professional, VOLUNTEER, you can share your passion, your experience, your expertise with them, in return, you’ll also be impacted by their lives. If you believe in this cause and you want to build active citizens who are confident in what they can do for the communities, the second way you could support us is through funding so that we could run this program,” said Mei Yi Yeap, the organizer of PechaKucha Petaling Jaya.
For more enquiries, do email them at pechakuchapetalingjaya@gmail.com.
Look at the attached video to find out more about what happened!
by admin | Mar 20, 2019
The world is shrinking and we are no longer only interacting with our neighbours and circle of friends. We are going around people from different country and different culture. Yet, today’s world is more xenophobic than ever before. Today’s modern people believe in more stereotypes regarding other nations than what one would expect. Today we tend to generalize, fear and exclude “the other” more than our previous generations. Therefore, the need to exchange culture is crucially important.
Cultural exchange is more meaningful for the underserved community where they can’t get access to the external world. Taylor’s community has initiated art and cultural exchange project with underserved communities, not only one but three in one week. It’s started with young refugee children aged 4 – 6 in Pertubuhan Pusat Kebajikan Destiny, followed by the maginalised community at SOLS.ai with youth aged 17 – 22 and lastly with Rohingya children aged 12 to 17 at Rainbow of Love (Pelangi Kasih). The art and cultural exchange project were led by international interns from Japan and Korea. The underserved communities learned about Japanese and Korean culture in this project.
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