Community Outreach Programme

The Community Outreach Programme (COP) focuses on providing quality education for underprivileged children. It started in 2002 and is one of our flagship programmes.

Each volunteer from PwC dedicates two weeks of their time between May and November to tutor children at the homes and schools we support (Anbu Illam, Karunai Illam, Rumah Juara and students who are of Orang Asli descent at Methodist Girls’ School, Kuala Lumpur).

Our volunteers help the children with homework, address literacy issues as well as assist the homes with administrative duties.

As part of our continuous improvement, we began to track the progress of the children at the COP homes in 2015, using an evaluation tool to measure non-academic progress such as: attendance, punctuality, adaptability, communication skills, independence, attitude towards learning and self-esteem.

Since then, each volunteer is required to complete evaluation forms for the children and results are compiled at the end of the year. We then visit the homes to go through the results and discuss how we can improve further.

We had 104 volunteers clocking in close to 7,000 hours in FY2017.

We evaluated 84 students on the Community Outreach Programme, in the 3 charity homes we supported. There were over 500 forms, averaging 6 forms per student.

The image below shows the distribution of students according to their evaluation.

The image below shows number of students improving from the previous year, based on the evaluation forms. We are encouraged by these numbers and will continue to invest time to help the students improve further.