Community Mobilisation

To expand our movement and accelerate progress towards our vision, we are launching Community Mobilisation to drive systemic change and scale our impact.

What is Community Mobilisation?

Community Mobilisation is one of Teach For Malaysia’s departments to facilitates mobilising leaders to drive systemic change by recruiting, training and deploying leaders across all layers of the ecosystem. and far-reaching. Thus, every part of local communities in every part of Malaysia is empowering all children to realise their potential through quality education.

Empowering Communities, Changing Lives

In our post-pandemic learning recovery journey, we realise the urgent need to provide platforms for collective leadership. Community Mobilisation facilitates mobilising leaders to drive systemic change by recruiting, training and deploying leaders across all layers of the ecosystem. This includes community members, leaders, volunteers, parents, students and the Fellowship Alumni, allowing the TFM movement of leaders to be inclusive, diverse and far-reaching.

Mobilising Students To Be A Leader

Building a sustainable and growing movement of student leaders across Malaysia that will lead transformation in their schools, communities and the broader nation. 

  • Student Leadership Camp (SLC)
  • Program Komuniti Perkasa (PKP)
  • Suara Anak Malaysia (SAMA)
  • We Think Digital (WTD)

Mobilising Our Community for Impact

Creating platforms for our existing leaders and the broader community to connect, collaborate and directly contribute to empowering students through quality education:

  • Student Leadership Camp (SLC)
  • Program Komuniti Perkasa (PKP)
  • We Think Digital (WTD)

We Focus Our Impact On

1,019

total students participating in Community Mobilisation programmes

1,036

total Volunteer Tutors & Community Leaders engaged

114

communities that Community Mobilisation has served.

Small Steps, Big Changes

Accenture Student Leadership Camp

The Student Leadership Camp (SLC) is a collaboration between Teach For Malaysia and Accenture Malaysia to develop leadership competencies and instil design thinking skills amongst students. Since 2013, SLC has developed 888 student leaders who implemented 153 student-led initiatives across 3 regions in Malaysia. 

Program Komuniti Perkasa

The Program Komuniti Perkasa (PKP) is organised by TFM and is supported by the CIMB Foundation which aims to empower students by instilling leadership competencies and innovative solutions that bring positive impact to their community. In 2024, PKP has developed 130 student leaders who implemented 29 student-led initiatives across 4 PPR communities, guided by volunteer mentors.

Suara Anak Malaysia

Imagine a gathering where Malaysia‘s future leaders converge to share their dreams, ignite their passions, and pave the way for a brighter tomorrow. This is the essence of the Teach For Malaysia Student Summit: Suara Anak Malaysia– a transformative platform dedicated to amplifying student voices and fostering student-adult partnerships to inspire quality education for all students in Malaysia.

Future of Work

The Future of Work initiative aims to support corporate mentors to adopt a holistic and inclusive approach to developing students as leaders who will thrive and shape meaningful careers in an evolving economy. In partnership with schools, FoW aims to empower students on their career aspirations journey  In 2023, we impacted 51 students and aim to create ian mpact on more than 150 students in 2024.

Education Recovery Training Initiative

The Education Recovery Tutoring Initiative (ERTI) is organised by TFM and is supported by Yayasan Hasanah that aims to address the learning loss of 600 students due to the pandemic from six PPR communities through a year-long tutoring with volunteer tutors from all walks of life. The program also aims to train and equip both the volunteers as well as the community leaders to be leaders of change in their communities.

Volunteering Community

Teach For Malaysia has recruited more than 400 volunteers across Malaysia to support our programmes. Among the programmes that have been supported by our volunteers are the National Tutoring programme (2021-2023), Program Komuniti Perkasa (2022-2024), Education Recovery Tutoring Initiative (2024), Suara Anak Malaysia (2024), and Student Leadership Camp (2023-2024). 

Through TFM’s Tutoring Programme, I get to understand faster as my tutor teaches me in a very fun way that makes it easier for me to grasp the knowledge. I was also able to get fast response as the tutoring session is a very detailed session.

Muhammad DanishTutoring Programme Student ‘21