and embed a wide range of skills beyond academic success – including team building, extreme empathy, business planning, problem solving, creativity, public speaking, compassion, leadership, and emotional intelligence. A powerful list!
start, transforming into eloquent communicators, putting their ideas forward, working with their peers and talking with an air of assurance about their involvement in the project. All these skills are vital to their future success alongside academic achievement.”
For many students it was a transformational experience, as noted by Darren Lim Jen Zen, geography teacher at Prince of Wales Island International School (POWIIS) in Malaysia, whose team would go on to win the overall competition. “We had 18 students from POWIIS take part and the impact was enormous, teaching them a variety of skills. One of the most gratifying things for me was seeing some of the students, who had been less confident or outgoing at the
In just five weeks, teams uplifted ten families; created two multiplefamily cooperatives; improved healthcare in the village; enhanced cultural celebrations; provided educational materials; improved access to sport; introduced water harvesting, created sewing, yak product, catering, and goatherding businesses, provided a sound-system for community gettogethers, set up a maintenance business, and introduced community-level weaving for the women’s group. Students also
worked their way through three unique Leadership Modules designed by Linda Cruse.
CHANGING LIVES, FOREVER! Schools interested in taking part in a future FOBISIA Race4Good contact: janine.minchin@fobisia.org Or visit: lindacruse.com/r4g-fobisia.html
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“One of the most gratifying things for me was seeing some of the students, who had been less confident or outgoing at the start, transforming into eloquent communicators, putting their ideas forward, working with their peers and talking with an air of assurance about their involvement in the project. All these skills are vital to their future success alongside academic achievement.” –DARREN LIM JEN ZEN, GEOGRAPHY TEACHER, PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
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