Nexus Alumni Help Underprivileged Secondary Students During Pandemic
Nexus alumni听Kai听Song听and Wen Wen, who were both scholarship听recipients at the school, have recently founded a non-profit organisation,听Rakan听Tutor.听Kai听Song听is a former Mckinsey London consultant currently working in an early stage edtech startup in Malaysia. She is passionate about education access, and has previously founded CollegeLAH, led a pro bono consulting project for Teach for Malaysia and volunteered with Myanmar refugee education centres. She holds a MEng Information Engineering from the University of Cambridge.听
Wen Wen on the other hand is a research associate at J-PAL North America, an economics research center based at MIT. She鈥檚 passionate about evidence-based policymaking for poverty alleviation. She previously started CollegeLAH, led a pro bono consulting project for Teach for Malaysia, and has experience听tutoring听refugee children. Wen Wen holds an MA in international and development economics from Yale University and a BS in neuroscience and economics from Johns Hopkins University.
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Rakan听Tutor, is an NGO offering听free one-to-one听tutoring听to听underprivileged secondary school students in Malaysia听who have suffered learning loss due to the pandemic. They are currently recruiting SPM Math volunteers听and are looking to听tutor听250 students who are left听behind especially in rural areas in Malaysia to get听a better shot in education.听
How to Volunteer
To volunteer, you need to have completed IGCSEs (or equivalent) and scored at least an A- in Mathematics and commit 2 hours per week for a minimum of three months. Join them on their mission - you can find out more at听听or reach them at听kaisong@rakantutor.org
Global Citizenship - the Nexus Way
91直播视频 Malaysia is an internationally minded community which focuses on nurturing learners to become globally responsible and educated citizens.听Nexus empowers learners through the Nexus Way, which consists of four elements 鈥� Relationships, Inclusion, Innovation and Mindsets. It is the foundation and philosophy that reflects in our teachers and learners; a learning environment that is innovative, progressive, and grounded in trust, compassion, and respect.听
Kai Song and Wen Wen's story demonstrates how Nexus and its education philosophy nurtured them into becoming the changemakers and responsible global citizens they are.听
