A comprehensive literacy intervention program in Malaysia with the aim that one day, all children will be able to read.

 

Charis Ding is a teacher in a secondary school in Sungai Petani, Kedah. She started teaching in 2013 as a fellow under the Teach for Malaysia program. Since 2014, she has carried out reading sessions for students in her school every Saturday with the help of student peer tutors and volunteers. Charis holds a BA in English from the National University of Malaysia (UKM). She can be contacted at charis.ding@alum.teachformalaysia.org.

 

 

 

 

Rachel Lim is an English teacher in Merbok, Kedah. She began teaching in 2014 and currently runs a literacy program in her school for 18 mentors and 18 mentees. It has shown remarkable success and growth, with students improving 40.2% on average in reading growth after 12 weeks. The program runs every Tuesday for 1.5 hours. Rachel has a BA (Hons) Political Science and International Relations from the University of Durham. She can be contacted at rachel.lim2014@teachformalaysia.org.

 

 

 

 

Joshua Tay is an English and History teacher in Pulau Ketam, Selangor. Since realizing that the biggest problem in his school was English literacy, he began running makeshift English literacy classes for students since 2014. The constant trial and error with various resources has led to the quest for suitable material to suit his students. For him, this quest has been fulfilled with MYreader. Joshua has a MEng (Hons) Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London. He can be contacted at joshua.tay2014@teachformalaysia.org.