Great Fund for Fun Educational Exploration

Tun Fuad Foundation has generously funded three organisation allowing participants from aged 13 to 55 years old to experience fun outdoor challenge at Outward Bound Sabah. Programme has divided into 3 batches, to allow participants from Sabah Cheshire Home, Rumah Kanak-Kanak Toboh and Sabah Society for the Blind, to take part in the Outward Bound Programme which took place from mid April to early June 2013. 

The 3 - 5 days programme was designed with elements of high energetic yet educative activities to accommodate the objectives of the programme. participants took part in the high ropes challenges (e.g. abseiling, rock climbing and Flying Fox) as well as water courses which were sailing and kayaking in the South China Sea, journeyed to Pulau Dinawan approximately 4 kilometres from the school. All of them grasped an opportunity to camp on the island. whilst installed activities such as camp craft, bush cooking and Bonfire.

Datuk Chin Kui Bee, the Trustee of Tun Fuad Foundation said that this programme has brought great impact to the life of the participants and impressed to see the transformation in their life. She hoped that more participants to be given such opportunity in time to come. She was speaking to the children from Rumah Kanak-kanak Toboh in the closing ceremony at Outward Bound School on the 28th May 2013. Pn. Rosalind Chiew, the President of the Sabah Society for the Blind shared the same sentiment with Datuk Chin as she spoke in the closing ceremony on the 8th June 2013.

Written by,
Ms Jamie Lee Cyuen 
(Jamie is OBS new Business Development Executive, from Kuala Lumpur)

 There shall be no hindrance for the blinds to undertake challenges that normal being does.   

The participants from Sabah Cheshire Home were all ready 
for the morning exercise at the beach.

The participants of Rumah Kanak-kanak Toboh and the instructors of Outward Bound Sabah.
Sitting at the left; Datin Theresa William, Datuk Gabriel William (Executive Director of OBS),
Datuk Chin Kui Bee (Trustee of Tun Fuad Foundation), Mr. Benjamin Benedict (Asst. Director of OBS)
and Mr Johnny Suti (Programme Manager).