CHILD Philosophy
"The Child is the Father of the Man"
"The Child is the Father of the Man"
For the last 41 years, since 1984, CHILD has lent itself to the cause of Tamil schools to help them regain their rightful place, identity and self-respect in the National education system. CHILD’s engagement has helped to transform the study culture of Tamil school children and forge an amiable working partnership between parents, teachers and the community in many Tamil Schools. Meanwhile, the long-term association of 25 years with Tamil Schools has afforded CHILD the opportunity to study the Tamil school problems comprehensively and test several different remedial modalities to improve student performance.
The major objectives of CHILD are to help less advantaged children realize their potential and have the courage to dream; and to foster understanding and cooperation among children of all cultures in the spirit of love, compassion and reverence. CHILD achieves these objectives by providing educational assistance for the disadvantaged and less fortunate needy children and youths, irrespective of race, religion or creed. CHILD also assists Tamil School children to attain parity with children in National Schools in academic performance.
The five core programs below are designed to meet CHILD’s goals and objectives:
Preschool (Early Childhood Learning): This programme is designed to address some issues in Tamil schools. Early childhood education among this low socio-economic group is vital to give them a good head start and prepare them for primary education From the program’s inception in 1984 to 2025, 30,317 students benefited overall. To this day, it remains one of the Child’s pioneering projects.
RAW (Reading and Writing Programme): This programme is to help in attaining early skills in English language and improve its proficiency. Using the Ladybird Series, the project benefited 20,630 pupils overall from 2006 till 2018.
SLP (Project Inspire- Special Learners Programme): Project Inspire help addresses the problems faced by slow learners. From 2008 to 2018, CHILD implemented a program to assist slow learners develop themselves in Malaysia’s school system. A total of 6,442 students benefited from the program, which had been developed and designed by CHILD in collaboration with a group of teachers and a stringent quality control system.
CITS (Comprehensive Integrated Tamil School Programme): The programme attempts to address the issues of Tamil schools. There is a lack of parental support for many poor Tamil children studying in Tamil schools. The high failure rate is largely due to poor parental care, concern and support. CITS is specifically designed to compensate for these deficiencies. It is a holistic programme that aims at improving the academic performance of Tamil school children, particularly the UPSR students. There were 15,883 students benefited overall from 1996 – 2020.
CARE (Post Primary Programme): The programme was designed to help these students to maintain their grades and at the same time provide them with skills to be leaders of the community. Many students with good grades in the UPSR fail to take advantage when they leave Tamil schools and join National Schools in Form OneCARE programme is a five year holistic mentoring programme for children from Forms 1 – 5 that aims at improving their academic, social, linguistic and interactive skills. 65,042 students benefited from the program, which was successfully run in two centres (Melaka and Selangor) from 2005 to 2014.
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