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Darrasa

The founders of Darrasa are educators who have been teaching for more than 20 years. The love and joy in seeing children they worked with achieving success, based on their own individual measures, spurs the founders to set up Darrasa. Darrasa means �...

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Project Status: Ongoing

Amount raised: $37,058

Still require: $106,941

Above information is updated on 29th of May 2025.
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We, Darrasa, channel our focus to help children and families in the community, especially children from underprivileged families and children with special needs.

We help underprivileged families and children by giving affordable tuition for the children. We are also helping families of children with special educational needs by connecting them to therapists and get affordable therapy sessions.

In some cases, with contributions from kind donors and sponsors, Darrasa is able to give free tuition and therapy sessions to families who are really struggling financially by paying the therapists and tutors on behalf of the families.

We have more requests from families to assist them financially for therapy sessions and tuition sessions and we would like to see the children continue getting the help that they deserve.

We are looking for more funds to continue this cause. No amount will be too small in the quest to allow children to continue learning.

Darrasa's founders believe that Darrasa can be a catalyst to remind others of kindness and be an avenue for people to 'pay it forward'. All it takes is one kind act. All it takes is a helping hand. Darrasa is set up for families and students, by the 'students' of life, and with the help of other 'students' who wants to make an impact and to help.

The target is $144,000.

Below are the packages that Darrasa offers:

• SPED Support (Learning Difficulties e.g. Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, ADD/ADHD, ASD, Asperger's, Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome) - Our Allied Educators (SPED trained tutors/therapists) will work on academic using differentiated instruction at child's level plus working on developmental domain (memory building, social communication, social interaction, attention development).


• Therapy (Speech/Occupational/Behavior) - Qualified Therapists will work with child and parents to address developmental gaps and concerns present in child to function better in different settings and contexts.


• Tutoring - Our tutors will go and teach/coach child (at the child's home) academics based on subjects that parents requested.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND PROGRESS OF THE BENEFICIARIES
	[October 2024] Ned (pseudonym) is a 6 years old boy with ASD. He is currently studying in a special school. Ned has been with Darrasa since 2023. Ned is positive in his sessions and needs short, focused work to be assigned for him to complete the overall session. Ned still needs help to generalize his good behavior to other settings i.e. when playing with friends and siblings. Road safety awareness and in the classroom.
	[October 2024] Zayn (pseudonym) is a 6 years old boy who has been working with Darrasa therapist since 2023. He has shown good improvements in his interaction and attention span during sessions. He is working on study skills to help him with academic tasks in school. His only caregivers are his grandmother and mother.
	[October 2024] Brayden (pseudonym) is a 5 years old boy in an EIPIC school in Singapore. He has ASD and faces challenges in communication and interaction. He stays with his parents and younger sister in a rental flat. Mum is the sole breadwinner for the family and works hard to ensure that the best care is provided for Brayden and his sister. Mum hopes that with Darrasa's help, Brayden can communicate and cope better with family and school friends.
	[October 2024] Eyan (pseudonym) is a 6 years old boy who has been with Darrasa since 2022. He has autism and previously he had a short attention span in his sessions. He can sustain attention for at least 20 minutes during an hour-long session. He communicates better, although he still needs prompts to maintain a conversation. Parents are happy to see his progress and are now hoping that he can get into a good SPED school.
	[October 2024] Nifal (pseudonym) is a 6 years old boy who has been working with Darrasa's therapist since 2022. He has shown good improvements in his interaction and attention span during sessions. He is working on academic tasks to prepare him for school when he turns 7.
	[October 2024] Fariz (pseudonym) is a 6 years old boy who has just started working with Darrasa's therapist. He has autism and showing challenges in communicating. Fariz will require consistent weekly home intervention to generalize skills learned in school and at home.