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YTL Foundation - Learn From Home Initiative
Community 31 October 2022
Launched in March 2020, the Learn From Home programme was created in response to the pandemic with a particular focus on low-income families. The programme equipped B40 families with free data and a smartphone so that their children could continue learning from home whilst schools were closed.
Over the past two years, the Learn From Home Initiative, in collaboration with FrogAsia, YTL Communications, Teach For Malaysia, MyReaders, Pelangi, Kindity and CIMB Foundation, has built free online lessons for the entire Malaysian school curriculum. Through the initiative, 800,000 smartphones and SIM cards were distributed, and 1,400 online lessons and 45,000 quiz questions were made available on the Foundation’s website and on the Launchpad Mobile App (formerly known as "FrogPlay"). It enabled children to enjoy free access to over 1,400 online lessons - currently available for Bahasa Malaysia, English, Mathematics, Science, Geography, History, Moral Education, Physics, Biology, Chemistry and lessons on the UNSDGs with the aim of covering all core subjects by the end of 2022. The lessons are designed based on the national curriculum from Standard 1 to Form 5. These lessons are accessible on the YTL Foundation website and the Launchpad Mobile App. The latter also offers over 45,000 quiz questions, which makes learning and revision easily accessible to all students via smartphone.
To date, the Learn From Home lessons have been accessed more than one million times. The lessons were also used for YB Maria Chin’s Tuition For A Cause programme in Section 17 Petaling Jaya, Selangor. The committee members of this programme recently carried out an assessment of the learning resources available and decided to continue using the lessons for the programme. YB Maria Chin said, "We found that the Learn From Home learning material is still the best learning material for all the national school students for learning from home."
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Over 800,000 smartphones and SIM cards delivered 1,400 online lessons and 45,000 online quiz questions developed Lessons accessed more than 1,000,000 times |
Collaboration with CIMB Foundation and Teach For Malaysia
CIMB Foundation came on board as a content partner to develop more lessons to add to the existing four core subjects. Last year, whilst looking for a solution to help students in low-cost housing communities, they were introduced to the Learn From Home lessons by Teach For Malaysia. They decided to work with YTL Foundation and FrogAsia to fund the development of lessons in additional subjects. CIMB Foundation also engaged Teach For Malaysia to run workshops for parents and students and to introduce them to the Learn From Home lessons so that the community could run tuition sessions for students. Their goal is to reach at least six PPR communities, 60 teachers and 9,600 students by 2023.
The aim is to cover all core subjects by the end of 2023. This collaboration was launched at a ceremony at PPR Hicom in Shah Alam on 12th February 2022.
YTL Foundation's Learn From Home Initiative clinches People’s Choice Award at the AVPN Constellations Awards 2022 - The learning content from the award-winning initiative will be made available under a new volunteer tutoring programme, KelasKita
YTL Foundation's Learn From Home programme was awarded the People's Choice Award at the Constellations Awards 2022, by Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN), Asia’s leading social investment network. The nationwide programme was recognised on this global platform as an action-oriented project that addressed the complex shifting challenges of B40 communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Awarded only to the best social change investment projects in Asia, this recognition highlights the programme’s positive impact on low-income communities by enabling them to have access to education during extended periods of school closures. Winners in other categories included projects by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Nations Development Programme.
KelasKita: An evolution of the Learn From Home initiative
Having built up this rich bank of educational content through Learn From Home, YTL Foundation will launch KelasKita, a programme which allows volunteers to provide tuition (online or on-site) to children in low-income communities most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic using the Learn From Home lessons.
Developed in partnership with Teach For Malaysia and FrogAsia, this programme seeks to help children make up for learning gaps and learning loss experienced as a result of the extensive school closures over the past two years. The KelasKita programme features a step-by-step implementer and volunteer guide, for volunteers to conduct their online classes using the lessons on FrogAsia’s virtual learning platform.