By Fatima Qureshi | Communication Manager
GlobalGiving Report
Educate Malaysia’s Invisible Children
Fugee School’s new 2020-2021 Term Year
Summer at Fugee School is filled with exciting engagements with teachers, parents, students and volunteers across the board. From sensitivity training in sexual and gender-based violence to summer activities week, at the center of it are carving secure futures for Fugee School kids. Primary students have been in the thick of outdoor enrichment activities that develop life and hard skills.
Fugee friends also came through to run workshops with watercolors, planting, yoga, story-telling and craftwork. Shoutouts to Dipali Gupta, Muna Bashatah, Suji DeHart, Kerry Harrison and Ekhlas Ahmed for volunteering!
Summer activities
Split into informal and formal meetings, parents frequent the Both indoor and outdoor activities were organized from arts and crafts, yoga exercises to fields sports and storytelling. Students had such a blast in all of them that some parents came to the Fugee School principal, Bushra, to share their kids' impatience to wake up super early for school just to design bracelets and jump hoops!
About 20 students are attending tuition groups at Fugee School from Sep 7-24 in order to improve their English and Math foundation, these groups are done by our dedicated Fugee graduates volunteers with my help facilitating. Challenges and difficulties this year were huge and had affected all but our staff, parents, and students showed resilience and responsibility and all did a great job to bring this academic year to the end.
This opportunity helped the students improve and pass their exams. It also helped our graduates improve and gain teaching skills, class and time management skills, and gave back to their school and community. Teachers were providing support to the graduates to teach and empower younger kids at school.
Dharana Project
The collaboration between the Fugee School and The Dharana Project is a yoga and psychoeducation program (8 sessions) that aims to equip adolescents with skills and knowledge to protect their mental health.
21 boys are participating in the 8 sessions age between 13-19 years old. They will be grouped in small groups between 7 to 9 boys in each batch. 7 boys will be the first batch to do the 8 sessions.
The Edible Garden Project
The Edible Garden is a project sponsored by our Fugee friend and donor Ms. Kerry Harrison. The project aims to journey students from assembling bed plants to harvesting.
In workshop 1, the project organizers introduced the concept of edible gardening, to show the students the types of vegetables that they will be planting, and how to care for it. Setting up the growtongs & learning the basics in planting. 15 students from grade 6 are in these projects and taking a turn in caring and watering the plants.
There are a lot of projects planned to start/finalize planning for this term in art, sports, soft skills, girl empowerment, and leadership. Hopefully it will start in November when the CMCO is lifted.
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