Temerloh cluster mentors Jimmy Ma and Martina Gilmartin's running club raised $94,600 RM during their educational charity drive. This money was donated to local school: SKJC Yeow Cheng Luan. 100% of the donations came directly from club members themselves.

Pictured below are Jimmy and Martina with their running club: Temerloh Hash House Harriers and Harriettes and the result of their fundraising efforts.

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Martina Gilmartin helped her teacher, Pn Rosnani in SK Abu Bakar with her lesson on clothing and recycling. The students turned old newspapers into "clothes" and had fun creating their own designs. The newspapers were then placed in the recycling bin in order to learn about recycling and reusing materials.

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Martina Gilmartin helped her mentee: Mr. Veera institute a peer reading program in her SK Bandar Mentakab school. Students improve their English reading skills by reading storybooks to each other and then together.

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Martina Gilmartin helped create, organize, and judge a singing contest in her SK Abu Bakar school as part of their English week activities.

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Jimmy Ma helped co-teach a class with his mentee: Ms. Nurulhyda at SK Bandar Temerloh. This class played a matching game with articles of clothing.

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Jimmy Ma was co-teaching with his mentee: Mr. Rafi at SK Bangau. The year 2 class learned about articles of clothing.

Students drew different clothes on stick-men, depending on the instructions given to them.

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Jimmy Ma continued English week at his SJKC Khee Chee schools by helping judge storytelling competitions for his school.

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This July 12, the Temerloh Rotary International organization had a dinner inaugurating their new president: Chew Seiko.

The mentors in Temerloh (Jimmy and Martina) have been working with the Rotary Club's educational program since 2013, offering their services as mentors for the program. This year, they were joined by Maran mentors Sarah and Tom.

Jimmy and Martina in their garden before the inaugural dinner.

Martina and Jimmy with friends Nicholas, and Sara.
Nicholas is the son of a previous president of the Rotary Club.

Temerloh Mentors: Jimmy and Martina with Maran Mentors: Sarah and Tom

One more picture of the four mentors actually looking at the correct camera.

Previous President Ken Liew, Dato Hiang, Current President Seiko Chew, and Dato Rama.

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Jimmy Ma recently participated with his SJKC Khee Chee school in Temerloh during their English week. The first events of the week were to administer spelling bees to all of the students in the school.

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Being a mentor in Malaysia has many duties. Most of them are centered around education (such as mentoring, co-teaching, providing workshops, etc). However, some of the duties of mentors include community outreach and becoming part of their new communities. These duties are aimed at helping the foreign mentor adjust to and enjoy living in Malaysia.

Some of our mentors from Temerloh (Jimmy Ma and Martina Gilmartin) and Maran (Tom James and Sarah Higgs) spent this weekend doing some community outreach with their community this weekend.

These four mentors joined the Temerloh Hash House Harriers and Harriets organization in an inter-Pahang meeting in the Cameron Highlands. The event took place at SJKC Brinchang in the Cameron Highlands. This gave our mentors the opportunity to get closer with their community, visit one of Malaysia's most scenic and historic areas, as well as visit another school.

As you can see from the pictures, the mentors were able to meet a lot of people and had a great time!

On our way to the Cameron Highlands, we made a stop here just outside of Raub. It's durian season in Malaysia. Can you spot the durian in this tree?

Jimmy and Martina pose at a lookout site. Behind them are the carefully cultivated hills of the Cameron Highlands.

Here is a panorama shot of the hills of the Cameron Highlands.

Jimmy (Temerloh) and Tom (Maran) pose for some pictures with members of their community.

Our mentors having a great time in the SJKC Brinchang school hall.

Martina and Jimmy, mentors from Temerloh Cluster

Martina and Jimmy

A large group of community leaders from Mentakab pose with Martina and Jimmy.

Martina and Jimmy (Temerloh) with Tom and Sarah (Maran)

Jimmy is taking a picture with several members of the Cameron Highlands community. Without their dedicated work, this even would not be possible.

Jimmy and Martina. As can be seen from this photo, this was a large event attended by several people all around Pahang.

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