PACE Program with EY mentors

Handmade bookmark recycled from used cards

PACE PROGRAM  2014

PACE is the acronym for Program After Class Enrichment, a tuition cum mentoring project launched by The Edge Education Foundation in April 2013. This project is spearheaded and coordinated by Ms Dorothy Teoh, the CEO of the Edge Education Foundation. The sponsor for PACE at SMK Convent Sentul is Kuala Lumpur Kepong Bhd which will support the program for 3 years. The Edge Education Foundation is partnering EY (Ernst & Young) and Taylor's University business students to carry out PACE at the school. This year, mentors from EY are helping our girls acquire financial literacy and simple entrepreneurial skills for life.

Our PACE girls are being mentored by 12 kind EY executives since February 2014 for 5 weeks. There are two parts to the program;  firstly a business project and  secondly a recycling program entitled Trash to Cash. Ultimately, both the recycling project and the business project aim to raise enough money for the students to open their own savings account. 

    In the business project, the EY mentors teach the students entrepreneurship and financial literacy skills. The business project's objective is that  the students learn how to operate a business in the simplest form. They are taught to make products and sell their handmade products for a profit. Under the careful guidance of the EY mentors led by Pn Siti Mariam and Madam Lae-Hoon Tan,  our Pace girls have produced over 340 beautiful handmade bookmarks and key chains! 

·    The "Trash to Cash" project is the recycling project where we collect old newspapers and old boxes  to sell.  The newspapers  collected came to a cool 330 kg which was sold for RM 99.00 on  28th  March 2014 . Amazing! 

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Enthralled by the possibilities of what could be made.
Mentor: Lea Ling Tan

Can I make these?

This is what you should do
Mentor:  Saidah Bebe Mohammad

Let me show you how it's done
Mentor: Seven Jeyaramamoorthy

This is how you should do it.
Mentor: Katy Kng

I made these paperclips!

Interesting paper clips

Colourful ice cream stick book marks

Happy  ice cream stick and flower book mark

Presenting what we made
Katy Kng is very excited by her group's efforts.

The joy of working with our hands

Puan Siti Mariam Mohamed Iqbal 
educating our girls on how to price their products.

Insect thread key chain

Sew and paste.

Pretty felt toys key chains

The proceeds from the sale of these items will be used to help our PACE girls open bank accounts.  Do help us purchase these delightful handmade items.

We thank the 12 dedicated EY mentors who have come faithfully each week with loads of materials, boundless energy and precious time to help train our girls make the delightful products under their close supervision and to change trash to cash! . These kind mentors are Arina Kok, Katy Kng,  Lea Ling Tan, Linda Lim ,Rajeswari Ramasamy, Saidah Bebe Mohammad, Seven Jeyaramamoorthy,Shalini Sathiyasiva, Stephanie Shalini Sukumaran , Sumathi Thiagaraja and    Vimalashankar M. Navarathnam.  We also thank Ms Dorothy Teoh, Madam Lae-Hoon Tan  and Pn Siti Mariam Bt Mohamed Iqbal  for the willing and cheerful sacrifice of their valuable time, energy, skills and resources. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

Your faithfulness and sacrifice have taught the girls more than financial literacy. You have taught them  they have self worth. You have helped them develop self confidence. Your faithfulness is an example they see and understand, particularly for some of them where faithfulness has not been  model to them in the families they have grown up with. You have taught them values for life!