RM24,000 to be used to support 10 needy students

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GAB FOUNDATION continues its commitment to education by donating RM24,000 to Yayasan Sin Chew’s ‘We-Care-Sponsor-A-Child’ Programme. The donation will go towards supporting 10 underprivileged students for one year in the form of monthly study allowance to cover their school fees, transportation cost, books and basic necessities for school.

This donation is one of the foundation’s initiatives under its education pillar, which aims to provide education opportunities to impoverished students in Malaysia.

Since its establishment in 2007, GAB Foundation has contributed more than RM1.3mil towards various education programmes in the country.

For a good cause: (From left) Wong and Koo Cheng receiving the mock cheque from Saw, Mahadev and Renuka.

“At GAB Foundation, we believe that education and learning are the key to a better life and we actively seek to play a part in education-based projects in Malaysia. We believe that this donation will help these children realise their ambition by providing them with access and means to a good education,” said GAB Foundation chairman Tan Sri Saw Huat Lye, who presented the donation to Sin Chew Media Corporation executive director and Sin Chew Daily CEO Koo Cheng, in a mock cheque presentation ceremony.

Also present were GAB Foundation trustee Datuk Mahadev Shankar, GAB Foundation Management Committee director Renuka Indrarajah, marketing and business development group director Eugene Wong as well as Sin Chew company secretary and Yayasan Sin Chew senior manager Tong Siew Kheng.

Under the education pillar, GAB Foundation is currently supporting 200 students through its English programme which aims to improve the level of English proficiency among students by providing them with additional lessons over and above their regular curriculum.

Besides that, the foundation also sponsors reading corners to help students nurture the reading habit by giving them access to English reading materials.

To-date, the foundation has set up 36 reading corners in Malaysia, including 19 in Sabah and Sarawak.

The Foundation will also be conductingan intensive two-week English camp for three primary schools in Perak during the year-end school holidays.

The ‘We-Care-Sponsor-A-Child’ Programme was launched in February 2002 by Yayasan Sin Chew with the aim of providing financial assistance to underprivileged students who are pursuing their primary and secondary education. Interested donors who wish to sponsor students under this programme can also donate to Yayasan Sin Chew.