AN ANCIENT SCHOOL LIVES ON CHARITY


CLASSMATES.....Amirah Wahid learns with her racial Chinese classmates. Behind her are (from left, quarrel by row) Manchini Jiunn Chong, Chloe Mae Pang as well as Raphael Lo Zheng Xuen.

By : SHALINA ROSENI

IT STARTED hold up in 1917 as a in isolation propagandize with thirty pupils. The Chung Hwa Chinese primary propagandize in Kota Kinabalu founded by Oh Hou Teck, an racial Chinese businessman of Fujian, has given grown in to a government-aided a single of 2,324. But it has never ceased to live upon charity.

Recently a S P Setia Foundation, thanks to Sabah deputy arch apportion Dr Yee Moh Chai, gave it 1,000 desks as well as chairs that price roughly 60,000 ringgit ($ 18,815). They are a timely present to reinstate ragged out ones in a 48 classrooms, according to Chong Lee Li, a clergyman who has been with a propagandize for fifteen years.
Lee Lam Thye, a substructure chairman, says it was Dr Yee who alerted his substructure of a school's plight. In his own sure as well as still approach Dr Yee, who is also apportion of resource growth as well as information technology, has helped with propagandize repairs as well as a basketball court, according to Eng Thiam Leong, a propagandize principal. In 2005 Dr Yee created a teachers' day greeting label with that pupils honour their teachers each year.


Founded in 1917 with thirty pupils, Chung Hwa right away has 2,324 pupils but it is still dependent upon handouts.

S P Setia substructure is a charity arm of a single of Malaysia's property conglomerates. It is branch a 25-hectare (60-acre) site of a Sabah State Railway in Tanjung Aru in to a 1.6-billion ringgit ($ 528m) municipality as well as ride hub.

The government pays a salaries of a school's 89 teachers. But Chung Hwa has to rely upon donations for a upkeep. The Kota Kinabalu Chinese Chamber of Commerce as well as Industry that owns it has been giving it between 30,000 as well as 50,000 ringgit a year. And a Sabah government gives it an annual accede to of about 80,000 ringgit.

Pupils do not pay fees. About 30% of them are Malays, Kadazandusuns as well as Muruts.

Lee says his substructure has given 150,000 ringgit to kindergartens in Penampang as well as Keningau upon a hinterland of Kota Kinabalu. It has also paid 188,000 ringgit for a village guidance centre at Kampung Kalampun in Keningau. (Insight Sabah)
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