Partnering Red Dot Traffic to provide under-privileged children with educational opportunities

We wish to thank Red Dot Traffic Golf Charity 2013 for their successfully fund raising for the under-privileged. 

On behalf of  under-privileged kids who have received special educational assistance through Morning Star's Nova programme, we wish to thank Red Dot Golf Charity Committee for their generosity and effort in providing this educational opportunity for under-privileged kids to get the help they need to start out their young lives right.

Special thanks to Kitch Lum and Eugenie Sia for the heart and care that was put into this project.

The 2013 children participating in NOVA have done so well that we are looking for more friends of Project Kyrie who might want to participate in this project in 2014 to put more under-privileged kids through the NOVA Programme.

The best way to stop poverty is to stop the vicious cycle of poverty. 

The difference between children whose parents have money and children whose parents have no money is that the latter lack the cultural capital provided by their parents.

Reaching out to needy and under-privileged kids at a young age and by providing them with the proper guidance and extra mentoring will we enable them not only to achieve better grades but be guided from young on how to make good decisions which will be crucial, later in their lives.  

So friends of Project Kyrie, if you would like to raise funds through your private activities to put more under-privileged children to participate in this hugely successful programme called NOVA , pls do contact me as there are more children waiting to join this programme :)

(NOVA) Programme - Nurturing One’s Valuable Attributes

Mission NOVA is a learning support programme for discouraged and under-achieving children.

The objectives of the programme are as follows :

•         To give the pupils strategies to cope with learning in school
•         To empower the parents with parenting skills that complement the project to bring about a positive impact on pupils’ learning      
•         The facilitator/s will be in school daily to guide the pupils in the programme
•         Each pupil will be given an Individual Educational Plan (IEP)
•         Pupils will be taught strategies and skills to cope with learning
•         Pupils will be taught ways to affirm and receive affirmation from peers
•         Pupils are coached in social behavior
•         Pupils are taught to take charge of their lives (rules and consequences)

The programme is run daily after school for a period of 2 years for the selected child, unless she is able to ‘graduate’ earlier after a year. This programme also works on a small facilitator-pupil ratio of 1:8. 

The programme details are as follows :

The schools selected will identify pupils from Primary 1 to 5 for the programme.  All the pupils identified will be from families with financial difficulties.

The identified pupils are severely under performing as they lack the home environment to support them and some may even lack a proper space to reinforce what they had learnt in school or to complete homework. 

While many of the identified pupils may have parents who try very hard to help, they may be unable to because of their own lack of education or work/family difficulties.  

With the NOVA programme, the school is most certain that these under privileged children will be able to meet their ability as they will be closely guided and taught the strategies required to succeed. Most importantly, this programme reaches out to their parents as well to equip them with the parenting skills required to nurture their daughters in a warm and loving relationship.

The total cost per year for the 16 pupils is $80,640, at $420 per child per month (inclusive of lunch).

The estimated cost of start-up furnishing of allocated room (with tables and chairs in clusters) would be $3000-$4000.

If full funding is secured the programme will be able to commence for selected children

The selected school will have to identify the space for the programme in the school and will begin furnishing the room once we are able to confirm that we have the funds to start it. 

*As with most programmes, each family may be asked to pay a token sum monthly to ensure their child’s regular attendance unless the family’s financial situation is absolutely dire. This is a negotiable point with the donor.

* Donations are tax deductible

What better fun than to organise a fun-filled event and to help children for a life time? :)

God Bless,

Mill