{"id":5054,"date":"2013-04-25T03:59:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T03:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teachformalaysia.org\/why-i-teach-for-malaysia-cheranes-story\/"},"modified":"2013-04-25T03:59:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T03:59:19","slug":"why-i-teach-for-malaysia-cheranes-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachformalaysia.org\/my\/why-i-teach-for-malaysia-cheranes-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Teach For Malaysia: Cherane\u2019s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Incoming 2014 Fellow, Cherane Christopher, shares why she wants to Teach For Malaysia. Cherane, originally from Sabah, is a graduate of UiTM Shah Alam and is among the 24 2014 Fellows so far \u2013 selected from over 250 applications!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_821\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/teachformalaysia.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/why-i-teach-for-malaysia-cheranes-story\/cherane\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-821\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-821\" title=\"Cherane Christopher\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.teachformalaysia.org\/blog\/home\/teachfor\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Cherane.jpeg?zoom=2&amp;resize=274%2C218\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cherane Christopher, Incoming TFM 2014 Fellow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know it at the time, but growing up I was considered a poor student. Both my parents were paddy farmers. I only handled a computer on my own while I was in Form 3, and had never known any life besides the bubble that I lived inside my village.<\/p>\n<p>But my parents they believed in their children, making sure we understood that education is how we make it in this world. As a Teach For Malaysia fellow, I would like to impart this knowledge: despite how or where we started from, we are in control of our lives. I know it won\u2019t be easy and the road will be long, but if I manage to show [students] that they can become more than what they ever dreamed of, it would be all worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Join Cherane and a whole cohort of other young leaders in making an impact on the lives of high-need students and helping them to do more than dream.\u00a0<a class=\"broken_link\" title=\"teachformalaysia.org\/apply\" href=\"https:\/\/temp.teachformalaysia.org\/2013\/04\/why-i-teach-for-malaysia-cheranes-story\/www.teachformalaysia.org\/apply\">Apply to join the Teach For Malaysia Fellowship<\/a>\u00a0and be a part of the #DoMoreThanDream movement! Our next deadline is May 20th.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incoming 2014 Fellow, Cherane Christopher, shares why she wants to Teach For Malaysia. Cherane, originally from Sabah, is a graduate of UiTM Shah Alam and is among the 24 2014&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,103,113],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-fellow","7":"category-impact","8":"category-movement"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachformalaysia.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachformalaysia.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachformalaysia.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachformalaysia.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachformalaysia.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teachformalaysia.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachformalaysia.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachformalaysia.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachformalaysia.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}