Expanding its reach to marginalised communities
Aside from helping students reach their education goals, YTAR is also helping a different demographic of students. Currently, 48 percent of its scholars are from the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia, while 31 percent are from Kuala Lumpur and Selangor. Another 21 percent are from Sabah and Sarawak. The organisation aims to increase representation from various communities, including from the indigenous Orang Asli population, Sabah, Sarawak and the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia.
“We looked at which parts of Malaysian society are the most underrepresented in our scholarship and found that the Orang Asli community needs to be more represented. Normally, we award between 20-25 scholarships per year. However, we aim to increase this number as we typically receive two to four thousand applications annually,” Thien says.
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