Building literacy: SJK (T) Seaport pupils receiving tailored lessons from a Projek BacaBaca volunteer.
LEARNING poverty, which is the inability to read and understand a short, age-appropriate text by the age of 10, is a real issue in Malaysia.
According to a 2021 World Bank report that took into account children who were not in school, 43% of Malaysians at late primary age were not proficient in reading.
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