Category: Outreach

She told me she has to find a way to bring her daughter home from Melbourne. The university has given non-resident students only a few days to leave.

My daughter told me that the university she teaches in has announced that they’ve made a loss of $400m in the last financial year.

COVID-19 resurgence is happening from Melbourne to Texas to Wuhan after reopening.

Have you thought of the impact it will have on you?

I am afraid of catching the virus, so I diligently use my mask and wash my hands while singing the Happy Birthday song twice.

Expected Difficult Times Ahead

But even if I don’t catch the virus, I know that the years ahead will be difficult. Many retail businesses have already failed, the travel industry is experiencing unprecedented decline. In similar fashion, universities everywhere: from the United States to Australia are struggling. Many jobs will be lost.

Most of us have yet felt the full effect as there are grants and economic packages handed out to businesses and individuals so far.

Will there be continual support or will the government grants be withdrawn, leaving us to survive on our own?

Traditionally and historically, people become taxi-drivers and hawkers for alternative sources of income. However, these options seem unattractive during this pandemic.

CICA Free Course

What options do we have? I want to give you a leg up!

Whether you think that your job is at stake, believe your existing company needs a new direction or think this is the perfect time for you to embark on a business dream, I am going to help you.

I will brainstorm with you to find the most profitable niche and help you launch that business in one month. As long as you follow our method and instruction, we are confident you will build something to be proud of in a month.

Some of our students have already managed to make more than their lost income, and their businesses are still growing.

Conditions

I have two conditions in order to offer the course free. One, you have to write an email to me to tell me your hopes and dreams for your future, no sob story please. Second, you have to implement what we teach in the course and take up a $3,000 implementation package so that your business will be launched in time. You must also put aside $500 to pay Google and/or Facebook for advertisement, to draw audience to your business.

I believe the pandemic can become an opportunity of a lifetime. You don’t need an idea to start but the determination to make this work.

There are thousands of feedback received from the years/decades I have taught entrepreneurship in the university from the link as well. You will read about many of my students have since become mega millionaires. Become a great entrepreneur and build a business for yourself, like them.

We are a social enterprise, which means we are like any for-profit companies, but with a social cause.  Our social cause is to educate the world and promote literacy and numeracy to the ends of the earth.  We are not a charity, so you will never, ever hear us asking you for donations.

A social enterprise also typically does not declare dividends or pay directors’ fee. Whatever is invested is normally not paid back to its investors.

Our staff are not volunteers, we pay them full or above market rates, and we recruit the best. Our systems are designed and done by the best in the world, supported by research that earned patents in many countries.

These great innovations that are typically expensive and therefore only available to the rich in first world countries need not be esoteric. We believe the best education must reach the masses, and we mean everyone in the world.

Our Beneficiaries

Three groups are identified:

1. Born-in-Singapore Singaporeans with a family income of less than $2000
2. Born-in-Singapore Singaporeans with family income of less than $3000 pay half of all our courses
3. Children in Third World Countries

How do we contribute?

We will provide all our courses free to children who are born in Singapore and to Singapore-born parents with a family income of less than $2000.  We hope that our programs will help alleviate the tuition costs incurred by these families.  We also hope to help such students realize their potentials. We want them to have better education opportunities than average.

If you fall into this category, all you need to do is to provide documentary proof of your place of birth, citizenship and family income.

In addition, we put aside funds for outreach purposes.  This will include meeting costs of providing our courses to children in third world countries who have no consistent access to schools.  We hope that by providing our materials free, the children will have a chance in education.

We believe education is the only social leveler, and the chance of the people and the country to come out of poverty: the way Singapore did in the 60s and 70s.

We also believe that technology can replace the lack of educators across the globe.  The technology is ready, and the time has come.

How can you contribute?

By subscribing to our courses, you are already participating in this exciting journey to help us educate the world.  We believe that children in the Third World countries must have access to even better curriculum and pedagogy than us in the First World, because their hours are precious and whatever they can afford, we must teach efficiently.  For every day that we take a child from his family, we risk his/her family some kind of livelihood.

Hence, we see the need to accelerate learning for these children, so that they can contribute meaningfully to their societies in a shorter time frame.

When we have prepared them for university, we will provide the support to put them through university with a scholarship and a family to live with when they are in a first world country for tertiary studies.

Our target?

If we manage to educate a doctor or an engineer, we would have been successful.  He/She will not only contribute to his/her society, but prove to the community that education is a way out of poverty.

And from there, our span of influence can grow.

Join us in finding that doctor or engineer, who will not be able to read a line of words unless we reach out to him/her.

What are we working on now?

We are already providing a few Singaporean families with our courses free.  In addition, we are working on getting the infrastructure ready in Myanmar  and working with a school in Cambodia to deliver our materials to those in the tribal and rural areas.