The Reading Bus Program in SMJK Yoke Kuan on 11 April 2015

It is indeed a great opportunity for us to join the launching of the Reading Bus Program in Yoke Kuan Secondary School. We always believe that every child should be given the opportunity to enjoy school and life through reading. Thus, when the deputy headmaster invited us to join this event, we agreed to it without any hesitation.

The event started at 7.30 am in the morning. It started off by the speech of the headmistress of Yoke Kuan Secondary School. She said that the Reading Bus Club is a very good opportunity for all the students to start reading and to improve their English level. The event was then continued with the speech by Mr Cheli Nadarajah, the starter of the Reading Bus Club. He mentioned that he is grateful that the Reading Bus Club can be launched in the one and only secondary school in Sekinchan. He also mentioned that he wished to launch this club in West Malaysia in the future so that every child gets to enjoy their school life and gets to know things happening around us through reading. 

A speech by Mr Cheli Nadarajah, the starter of the Reading Bus Club

The event continued as the students from the Interact Club of Sunway University who are also a part this Reading Bus Club organized an interactive session with the students in Yoke Kuan Secondary School to get closer to them and also to introduce them this reading program.

The president and vice president of the Interact Club started the session by holding an ice-breaking session. Students were divided into three groups and games were carried out. At first, the students were quite awkward but thanks to the friendly president and vice president, they seemed to blend well with the students from Sunway University. The whole process was carried out in English and it helped the students whom always communicate in Chinese to get familiar with it.

One of the members, Ying Xuan joining in for the ice-breaking session

Around 9.00am, we had to leave the school as we had to go to the church for the cleaning job.

Although it was a sudden plan to join this event, but it was indeed a great honour as the deputy headmaster of the school invited us to join this event. It was a shame that our participation in this event was short, but we had learnt that reading can be really fun and not burdening at all if you do it the right way. We had also learnt that knowledge is power. Through reading, we can obtain unlimited amount of knowledge. We sincerely hope that this Reading Bus Club can be spread to more rural areas in whole Malaysia to help out the underprivileged children so that every single child has the chance to read. =D