Volunteer work is highly valued in academic and career circles, writes Debra Grace Lim Jia-En, 17, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Malaysia, who recently completed an extended volunteer experience. She writes that volunteer work benefits both the volunteer and the recipient. In recent years, the importance of volunteering has resurfaced in the media with vehemence. Volunteer …
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Tutoring a refugee student gave Debra Grace Lim Jia-En, 17, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Malaysia, opportunity to learn about gaps in the rights and protections that are offered when people are forced to flee war or disaster. It was at a local NGO that I first met Sayyaf (not his real name), a 10-year-old Rohingya …
Artificial intelligence is increasingly part of our technological lives, writes Debra Grace Lim Jia-En, 18, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Malaysia, as she takes a look at the impact of AI and considers where the trajectory could lead. Tesla’s self-driving cars, Siri, Alexa, smart home devices like Sentri and Roomba. It is clear that artificial intelligence …
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Even as education rates rise, some students are being left behind. Santhiya Ramadas, 27, a Correspondent from Malaysia, describes a unique organisation that gives vulnerable youth a path to skills and a livelihood. You give a poor man a fish and you feed him for a day; you teach him to fish and you give …
Malaysia’s recent election was historic, writes Debra Grace Lim Jia-En, 19, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Malaysia, who looks at the positive role social media played in engaging voters in the civic exercise. For those born after 1995, it might seem as though social media platforms have been around forever. Whether it be Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, …
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