Book Haven - A Literacy Initiative

If a child comes from an economically deprived home with a mom who has a poor vocabulary, by age 3 his fate just maybe sealed. He will possibly never catch up in school and have life long struggles with learning. The average child growing in a middle-class family has been exposed to 1,000 to 1,700 hours of one-on-one picture reading before entering school whilst the average child in a low-income family has only been exposed to 25 hours of one-on-one picture reading during the same period!

Friday, January 29, 2010

YKPM

January 2010:

Book Haven supplied 200+ books and 2 Book Cabinets to YKPM Prima Selayang, an NGO which take care of the urban poor community in Prima Selayang. Most of the residents live in the flats around that area.

YKPM has rented a space in one of the ground floor flats to run computer & reading classes.