12,000 students benefit from EcoWorld aid
KUALA LUMPUR: Some 12,000 underprivileged students have benefited from the EcoWorld Foundation since its inception four years ago.
Its chairman, Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye, said 37 of the students had secured placements at institutions of higher learning, while 18 had graduated.
He said each aid recipient received between RM8,000 and RM10,000 for tuition fees and cost of living.
“Those who have graduated are not bonded to EcoWorld.
“They are free to work wherever they please,” he said at the closing of the Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) motivational camp organised by the foundation.
Present were foundation chief executive officer Datuk Liew Siong Sing and Selangor UPSR Motivation Camp chairman Norlaila Jamuluddin.
More than 110 students from 20 schools in Selangor joined the three-day motivational camp.
Lee said a similar programme called the School Assistance Programme had an annual allocation of RM5 million to help underprivileged students.
On the motivational camp, he said it was aimed at exposing participants to methods which would allow them to prepare for UPSR in September.
He advised participants to work diligently as the foundation would continue to help them if they achieved a minimum of 2As and 2Bs, and pass all the subjects.
The aid, he said, would continue up to secondary school.
“Each secondary school student will receive between RM1,000 and RM1,400, while at the pre-university level, they will receive RM5,000 each.”