Personal Challenge

Project GUSTO

  • 01/09/2015 - 26/09/2015

Melissa Tanya Gomes is participating in Give.my
and is fundraising for Do Something Good

This classroom project is fully funded, and will no longer accept any donation. Thank you for your support. We will update the project progress in this page as soon as we can. If you would like fundraise for your education project, submit your project application at http://tandemic.com/change/give/. Our 2nd phase of fundraising will commence in mid-January 2016.

My Story

While many sit and complain about our education system, a group of us decided to quit our high flying jobs in the corporate sector to teach students in rural areas and urban slumps. I was once a management consultant in an international firm. On weekends, I spent my time teaching English to a group of students. Here, I have met parents who not only struggle to put food on the table but also struggled to put their kids in school. That was when I decided to take that leap of faith to quit my job and be a teacher.

The Initiative - Project GUSTO (Ground up School Transformation)
A public-private-partnership that aims to transform schools through enhancing teachers' pedagogical teaching thus improving students’ outcome.

Project GUSTO is founded by a group of young teachers who were adamant in making systematic changes in the education system. Inspired by a visit conducted to a trust school (a model whereby public schools are adopted by corporate organizations to drive transformation) in Johor, the teachers were so encouraged and inspired to replicate that similar transformation to the schools in which they were teaching. To some, that was also the turning point that made them remain in the teaching profession. At present, 5 schools from Penang and Perak have been selected to participate in this program.

The funding is for? 
Creating a 21st century learning environment for the students - To replace the blackboards across our 8 form 1 & 2 classes with whiteboards and equip 2 classes with a projector.

Project GUSTO is now 5 months into implementation. To date, teachers and principals have witnessed a tremendous transformation taking place in their schools. Eg: attendance have increased, students are actively asking and participating in lessons, teachers are collaborating more frequently to improve their lessons, etc.

Cost Breakdown 
  • 8 whiteboards = RM1,600
  • 2 projectors = RM2,400
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Recent Donors

  • Anonymous

    Good luck! Love what you fellows do! :D

    MYR 100 09/15/2015 03:33:39 PM UTC

  • Anonymous

    MYR 50 09/14/2015 01:35:31 PM UTC

  • chen li

    Keep up the wonderful work, guys. :)

    MYR 100 09/14/2015 06:26:06 AM UTC

  • Siokkun

    MYR 50 09/13/2015 02:50:09 PM UTC

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    MYR 100 09/13/2015 12:52:51 PM UTC

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    MYR 50 09/13/2015 02:03:37 AM UTC

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    MYR 100 09/12/2015 07:14:18 PM UTC

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    MYR 100 09/11/2015 12:24:50 PM UTC

  • KH

    Keep up the inspiring work

    MYR 150 09/11/2015 12:02:13 AM UTC

  • Tsuey

    Keep it up, team Gusto!

    MYR 100 09/10/2015 04:49:24 PM UTC

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