Borneo Child Aid Society
Country : Malaysia
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LATEST UPDATE – 24 April 2012
The Toyota Hilux Double Cab vehicle has been delivered to Child‘s Aid Society Borneo. Delivery was delayed by flooding on the mainland followed by delivery of the wrong vehicle! But at last the vehicle is in use helping Child‘s Aid to educate more children in remote locations in Sabah.
UPDATE – April 2012
Child Aid Society continues to expand, opening 20 new learning centres to make a total of 140 centres, which serve more than 12,000 children.
After the delays due to flooding in Thailand, the delivery of the 4×4 vehicle to Child Aid Society has been further delayed by the suppliers incorrectly delivering of automatic gearbox rather than manual. This is incredibly frustrating, but totally out of our hands. We expect notification of the arrival of the correct car any moment. We will then send the final funds to the charity.
UPDATE – February 2012
The delivery of the 4×4 vehicle has unfortunately been delayed, due to flooding in Thailand, but it is expected to happen before the end of this month.
UPDATE – October 2011
Congratulations to the challengers who raised over US$31,000 for the 2 charities supported by the Wilds of Borneo challenge 2011.
Don Bosco have received their allocation of the funds and have already installed the 4 water tanks they urgently needed.
Child Aid Society will receive enough to buy a new 4×4 vehicle used to transport teachers and supplies to remote schools. Child Aid Society is currently working to open 29 new learning centers in the next 12 months
UPDATE – July 2011
The G4G challengers were visited at the Sabah Tea Plantation by 20 lovely children from different Humana schools in the region. The children presented various intricate dances from Malaysia and Indonesia, recited poems and explained the history and origins of Humana.
Humana currently takes care of the education of about 10,000 children in even the most remote areas of Borneo. At present, they are looking forward to receiving teaching permits for 26 additional schools. The Humana schools are not supported by the Malaysian Government. The only help they receive is in the form of teaching permits. The schools cater to children of migrant and local tea plantation workers. The workers do not have to pay for the services. Funding is in the form of donations from donors all over the world. The owners of some Tea Plantations help with funding but not all and not always.
The children had arrived 3 hours prior to when they were expected. Despite being pretty tired after a morning of mountain biking, the G4G challengers played with the children and really enjoyed their company before the children’s wonderful performance designed especially for the G4G challengers.
The vehicles that G4G will be funding will be used by Humana to reach the remote schools to ensure that they are monitored and are given all the assistance needed.
The G4G group also met with a young lady called Yvette Francisco who was a student at Humana since she was 5 years old. She has now become a qualified teacher and has come back to teach the children at Humana.
UPDATE – June 2011
Borneo Child Aid Society has 112 learning centres through which they provide education to c10,000 under-privileged children without access to government schools in Sabah. The beneficiaries are school-aged children of plantation workers, urban immigrant children and members of the nomadic Bajau Laut.
As BCAS take education to the remote areas of Sabah, they are in need of two 4WD vehicles and a number of motorbikes to get their teachers, coordinators and materials to the learning centres.
Given the two-hour journey to the nearest school, students from the BCAS will visit the challengers at the Sabah Tea Plantation during the challenge in July 2011.
ORIGINAL INFORMATION – Pre-June 2011
Borneo Child Aid Society (BCAS) is a local charity, helping the children of remote Sabah villages who do not have access to basic education. In 2008, BCAS had 60 teaching centres established in Sabah to provide underprivileged kids with access to education that they otherwise would not receive.
Funds raised by participants in the 2007 Borneo Challenge supported this worthy cause by donating transportation to both children (trucks used as buses) and teachers (motorbikes) to get them to the centres.
Without this transport, the huge distances involved in the remote plantations would prevent children from ever attending school. The teachers’ motorbikes allow the schools to recruit teachers who, otherwise, would be unwilling to work in such remote locations.
We are hoping that the 2011 Wilds of Borneo Challenge will build on this support by supplying more of this much needed transportation.
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