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| The aspiring graduates from SMK Segambut with their Sunway University and Sunway College Resource Buddies |
My First Graduate, which was launched recently, is led and organised by Jacintha Tagal and Christopher Tan. They have picked SMK Segambut in Kuala Lumpur to be the participating school in the nine-month long project which was launched at Sunway University. The Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Dato’ Saifuddin Abdullah is an ambassador of this project.
Jacintha, a Teach for Malaysia fellow and Project Director, who furthered her studies in Harvard after completing her A-levels at Sunway College said, “Many of the students at SMK Segambut are lacking in role models and opportunities to learn more about universities. Most of their parents are blue-collar workers and thus are not able to advise them on university options and career paths.”
Understanding this dilemma, Jacintha and her Co-Director Chris, who did his ACCA at Sunway College, decided on this mentoring project that enables students of Sunway University and Sunway College to assist the secondary school students by advising and coaching them, so that their aspirations may be raised and they may be encouraged to become university graduates and break the poverty cycle for their families.
The project attracted 40 applications for mentors from students from colleges and universities in Selangor. Only 21 were shortlisted to be Resource Buddies after interviews with Teach for Malaysia Fellows. They will mentor 23 aspiring graduates picked from among the students of SMK Segambut during the programme.
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