SALAAM Ramadhan to our listeners! Today’s Rush-Hour Chat is going to be a little different.
Sit back and join Hana and Muloy as they chat with the founding member of the Society for Community Outreach and Training (SCOT), Anwar Muhammad, on his insights into their recent venture, the SCOT Education Project. Click PLAY.
FIVE students at the Youth Development Centre (YDC) are in the shortlist of candidates who will be chosen to join volunteers who will teach English to children in a rural village in Cambodia.
From this shortlist, the Society for Community Outreach and Training (SCOT) will soon pick two YDCstudents who will fly to Cambodia along with a few SCOT volunteers in August, says Anwar Muhammad, founding member of SCOT.
Students at the YDC are undertaking an 11-week syllabus on basic communication skills to help them build their confidence in the English language. This is made possible through the SCOT Education Project.
It will be a meaningful experience for the two YDC students who will go to the Samrong Tong district in Cambodia, says Anwar.
“They have to cycle 20 minutes from where they live to the place where they teacht. It does no have electricity, windowless,” says Anwar in reference to the first batch of SCOT volunteers who are in Cambodia now for the same outreach activity.
Anwar is hoping to go there together with other volunteers this August to experience the living conditions there and do his part in this volunteer work.
“It will be a different scenario for me because I am there to mingle with the villagers themselves and see what the programme is about and how they are responding to it”.
For this project, SCOT’s major partners include the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, the British High Commission, CfBT Education Services (B) Sdn Bhd and the Organization for Building Community Resources Cambodia.
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Source: The Brunei Times
Author: The Brunei Times
Published Date: 14 July 2013