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Background

Starting a Centre

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• Asia Calling

• B. Indonesia

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Interview  Asia Calling (Vanitha Nadarai):

• English

• B. Indonesia

Picture Report:     Indonesian Teachers                      (Word 3Mb): 

Reg.Children: Excel File

Status August 2008: Borneo Child Aid Society/Humana is providing Primary Education to more than 8000 underprivileged children in 96 Learning Centres in Sabah, Malaysia. And we are still counting.......                                See below chart

We are proud to be part of the "Yayasan Harapan Kanak-Kanak Malaysia" initiated campaign to collect a million children's pictures and their visions for Malaysia.

Background:

• Malaysia is a fast progressing nation with big improvements in living conditions and better education for its people. But many  children living in remote areas, such as the children of Indonesian or  Philippine  plantation workers in Sabah do not have access to schools, because of distance, poverty and legal status. These are some of the children, we try to reach with our programme. That means we have to start our learning centres in the remotest areas, far away from towns, and accessed only by 4 wheel drive vehicles.

  Vision

• Our Basic Aim is to help fulfill the UN's convention on “The Rights of the Child”, which stresses that all children have a right to a primary education. We are determined to provide education to the children at our learning centres and thereby serving Malaysia and the state of Sabah by caring for and educating these children, so they may grow up to become knowledgeable and active participants in their society.

  Part of the UN's Millenium Development Goals is to achieve universal primary education:
  115 million children of primary school age are not
  in education. Most of these children are from the
  poorest families where the mother has had no
  formal education herself.
  Target: Ensure that by 2015 all boys and girls can
  complete a full course of primary education.

  Our aim is to contribute towards achieving these aims for underprivileged children in Sabah and Malaysia.

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Kids on their way to the learning centre.

Programme:

• We are presently running 96 Learning Centres for more than 8000 children of mainly plantation workers.
• We aim to give these children a good chance in life.
• We provide daily education and care for the children.

• We teach the children in English, Malay, Reading, Writing, Mathematics and Science and general knowledge about Indonesia and Malaysia. We practice integrated education with Music, Dance, Sports and Culture. 

• Help give the children a basic education and a hope for a better life.

• We have welcomed 109 educated teachers sent by the Indonesian Government to assist our programme.

Powerpoints Presentations:

• Daily Life at one of our Plantation Learning Centre (Haranky)

• Daily Life at one of our Town Learning Centre (Tabanak)

School Transportation

Borneo Child Aid Society  is presently opening and operating these Learning Centres approved with permits from the Ministry of Education in Putajaya, Kuala Lumpur and the Department of Education Sabah,  as informal learning centres and providing education and care for primarily children of  plantation workers.

Visit to Learning Centre in Madai Estate headed Dato' Abdul Latif bin Endot the Private Principal Secretary to Malaysia's Minister of Education and Mr.Kenneth Luis Director of the Foreign Relations Department of the Ministry of Education.

Borneo Child Aid Society is locally registered and known as "Humana Child Aid Society Sabah". The society was formed in 1991 with an initial sponsorship of a Europe based NGO, until 1998, when the main sponsorship was taken over by the Malaysian Company Hap Seng Consolidated's  "Lau Gek Poh Foundation".  Borneo Child Aid Society is at this time operating as a Malaysian NGO operating independent from any international organizations, but seeking support and cooperation for a unique and wide reaching education project.

Corporate Social Responsibilitiy.    

 "To do good is the greatest Joy."                     

 Ancient Asian Idiom.                          

Borneo Child Aid Society is primarily funded by socially responsible companies and other important donors, who want to take part in providing a better future for these children.

Today it is vitally important that also the corporate world take part in providing solutions for these social problems by helping children, who belong to the poorest and who do not otherwise get a proper chance of education. The investment in these children will come back many times.

Borneo Child Aid Society's Honorary Advisor is Mr. John Madsen, board member of Malaysian Institute of Management as well as Malaysian Danish Business Council and Danish Honorary Consul for Selangor. John Madsen as well as his wife Marianne Rehn has offered continued unwavering support for our society during the past years.

 

 

 

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Malay Traditional Dance performed by pupils from Linbar 2 plantation.

Picture Documentation:        

All 2008 Pictures   

 

 See also the Photo Gallery and Video Clips

  Graduation day November 2005 Tabanak

The first 3 Learning Centres were started on three plantations by a group of people with teacher's backgrounds in 1991 in Sabah after finding that the children on the plantations mostly did not go to school, and that there were many health problems such as malaria, measles and other diseases. We have employed dedicated teachers, among who the most important qualification is the willingness to stay often far from families, educating and caring for the children in the plantation to which they are assigned. These teachers have over the years helped us to reach thousand of children, and have in the process been active developing our unique programs, where singing, dancing, sports and other cultural elements are an important part in educating and enlightening the children.

Children from Tabanak performing plant growing dance during Sports Festival 2005

Memberships: 

Borneo Child Aid Society is a member of the  "Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil" in which forum we work to join forces with progressive and socially responsible plantation companies and other corporations involved in processing or trading palm oil to secure a proper basic education for the children of plantation workers.

• See RSPO Website www.rspo.org                                                                

• Download BCAS articles from RSPO Newsletter here:  

Borneo Child Aid Society is also member of CRIN (Child Rights Information Network) and INEE (Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies)

send us an email:  

                                                info@borneochildaid.org

Our Partners among Plantation Companies

• IOI Corporation, 22 Learning Centres

• PPBOP Berhad 4 Centres

• Sime Darby 10 Centres

• Fordeco/Kwantas Plantations, 7 Learning Centres

• Hap Seng Plantations, 5 Learning Centres

• Asiatic Development Berhad  8 Learning Centres

• Pontian United, 3 Learning Centres

• Teck Guan Plantations, 3 Learning Centres

• Melangking Oil Palm Plantations, 4 Learning Centres

• Borneo Samudera S/B 7 Learning Centres

• Nam Hing Sdn Bhd  1 Learning Centre

• Kebun Rimau (Datuk Harris)  1 Learning Centre

• JC Chang Plantations 8 Learning Centre

• Trusjadi Plantations 1 Learning Centre

• Tradewinds Corporation Berhad 1 centre

• IJM 1 Centre

• Lai Fook Kim 3 Centres

• Malsa Plantations 1 Centre

• Other Centres

• Lahad Datu 3 Centres

• Semporna 2 Centres

• Kalabakan 1 Centre

Donations and Sponsorships:

Good News:                                                                                                  Major 5 year Sponsorship from EAC Foundation Denmark for underprivileged children's Education in Kunak and Tawau Areas. Our warm and sincere Thanks to EAC Foundation.         

 

The Embassy of Finland has been sponsoring our programme with M$ 100,000 per Year from 2004 to 2007 and this has been increased to RM 200,000 in 2008.

List of Corporate Sponsors 1999-2008

The EAC Foundation (2006)  (funding equivalent to 100 children's education)                                (2008-13) 5 Year funding of new school project for children in Tawau and Kunak Area.

The Indonesian Government is supporting the programme by sending 109 qualified teachers to teach plantation children in remote plantation areas.

Lau Gek Poh Foundation overall sponsorship for BCAS (Humana Child Aid Society) from 1999 to 2003.  Donation of RM 100,000 (2007)                            (2008) Sponsorship of 2 Double Cab 4WD Mazda Pickup trucks

Fonden af 20. December: Donation af Danish Kroner 100,000  (2007)

The Body Shop Foundation has donated £ 5000 to sponsor students at our centres.

Gulf4Good UAE Donation of RM 80,000 for a new 4WD Pick Up

BioX is sponsoring one unit of 60 children at Ladang Permai (Tradewinds)

Schou Company: (2007-2008) Sponsorship of new Learning Centre in Semporna.

Jebsen and Jessen (SEA) Sponsoring 120 children's education in 2 centres.

Poul Due Jensens Fond (Grundfos) Funding equivalent to 200 children's Education

HSBC (2006) (sponsorship of two learning centres. Sebatik under Teck Guan and Asiatic Mewah 1 under Asiatic Development.                                                                                                                     Future First HSBC: 2007-2009 Support for centres in Lahad Datu and Semporna area.

Maersk Malaysia (sponsorship of one learning centre). Donations of many good second Hand PCs.  

Novo Nordisk, Malaysia (2006) Donation for 10 children's education in one year.

YTL Corporation (funding equivalent to one learning centre)

Carlsberg Malaysia (2006) (sponsorship of one learning centre, Tabin Estate)

DT Group A/S (2006) Sponsorship of 50 children's Education

Fonden af 8/7 1983,Denmark (funding equivalent to a hundred children's education)

Embassies, Societies and Private Donations:

Yayasan MapleLee - RM 800 Donation for our education project.

Embassy of Finland, Kuala Lumpur (funding for past  4 years of equivalent to 330 children's education)  Anders and Silvia Møller, Kota Kinabalu (2006 - 2008) (sponsorship of one learning centre: Balung River Estate)

Embassy of the Netherlands: Christmas Charity Auction to benefit education for the children in plantations RM 37,500

Datuk Leslie Davidson: Proceeds from sale of book: "East of Kinabalu".

MH Wong and John Madsen's Charity Fund. Sponsorship of one Learning Centre.

John Madsen and his wife Marianne , Kuala Lumpur (Advisor and long time Contributor. Funding equivalent to 240 Childrens education)

Datin Shuryani bte. Dato' Shuaib, wife of Datuk Mohamed Shafie Apdal, Minister of Internal Trade and Consumer Affairs, Malaysia. Donation to new school project in Semporna

Dato' Chua Lai Huat Donation

Ministry of Education, Jakarta, Indonesia: Financing and Sending of Indonesian Teachers. (Donation of one new set of PC and many boxes with school materials for our plantation children.)

Fabrikant Kaj E. Nielsen og Gudrun E Nielsens Fond (Donation for 20 children's Education)Ronald Macdonald Childrens Charities Fund (2006) Donation of Books

 Yayasan Harapan Kanak-Kanak Malaysia by YAB Datin Paduka Seri Rosmah, wife of Malaysias Deputy Prime Minister. 3000 Sets of Uniforms.

Amnesty International, Denmark (funding equivalent to 30 children's Education)         

FranklinCovey Nordic Approach, Denmark (Donation for new building in Kg. Tandoan)  

A Warm Thanks to All on behalf of several thousand underprivileged children in Sabah, who you have benefitted!

We need your support:

We are still in need of further funding, which will make it possible for us to develop our project and to reach more of the thousands of underprivileged children in Sabah with education.

• Sponsor a Child: RM 360.00 or 91 US$ per year
• Sponsor a Children's Learning Centre with 50 Children: RM 18000 or 5300 US$ per year

• How to Donate?    

We are also interested in book donations, vitamins or nutrients and 2. hand or new computers and printers, which are used by the teachers to produce education material in the plantations.

Email: info@borneochildaid.org

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