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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 â...

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Project Status: Ongoing

Amount raised: $34,418

Still require: $109,581

Above information is updated on 24th of April 2024.
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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
	[January 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..
	[January 2024] Jing Hui (pseudonym) is a 12 years old girl with Coffin-Siris syndrome and cyclical vomiting syndrome. Coffin-siris syndrome is a rare congenital disorder from birth and this has impacted her intellectual development. Her sessions are now focused on working with her social communication and interaction with her caregivers. Small successes are achieved and this increases her confidence in herself and her communication partners.
	[January 2024] Breydon (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 will be able to communicate and cope better with family and school friends..
	[January 2024] Biyah (pseudonym) is a 3 years old girl with global developmental delay. She is able to communicate in basic English. She needs help to work on her interaction and attention span. She has shown potential in her sessions. With consistency and continuous support, she should be able to bridge more gaps in her development.
	[January 2024] Eyan (pseudonym) is a 6 years old boy who has been with Darrasa since 2022. He has autism and previously he has a short attention span in his sessions. Currently, he is able to sustain attention for at least 20 minutes during an hour session. He is communicating 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..
	[Janaury 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.
	[January 2024] Ihsan (pseudonym) is an 8 years old boy who has been working with Darrasa's therapist since 2021. Ihsan was a shy boy who had issues communicating and interacting with peers and teachers in school. After sessions with Darrasa, Ihsan is now much more confident in school and is communicating more with friends and teachers. We are currently working with Ihsan to help him build a strong academic foundation so that he is able to deal with the academic load in school and achieve success.

FAQs

Qn: Do you have PayNow?
Ans: Yes. We will need you to register and fill up a simple form. You will receive an email containing the various payment methods, including HitPay (PayNow).
Click on this link or go to https://vimeo.com/461318439/7320cdbfe7#t=50s view the video on How to Pay via HitPay (PayNow).

No mobile number or UEN number will be provided. Instructions will be shown during checkout.

• If you are using a computer to checkout:


• Step 1: Launch your digibank app.


• Step 2: Tap on ‘Scan & Pay'


• Step 3: Scan the QR Code displayed on the computer screen and follow the remaining instructions



• If you are using a mobile phone to checkout:


• Step 1: At the payment page, capture a screenshot of the QR Code.


• Step 2: Launch your digibank app.


• Step 3: Tap on ‘PHOTO LIBRARY'


• Step 4: Select the screenshot of the QR Code that you captured earlier and follow the remaining instructions

• For PayNow (via HitPay), you will get a confirmation email after your transaction is successful.


• For Bank Transfers (Internet Banking), please reply to the registration email (Email subject is: [Infaq.SG - Infaq] (#Infaq85-XXXXX-XXXXXXXX) Darrasa's Special-Needs Education )) with the screenshot of the transfer transaction so that we can update our system and send you the confirmation email. Please ensure that the screenshot contains the Recipient's bank account number and amount.


• For cheques, we will send you the confirmation email once the cheque is cleared.

• If no, please email so we can update the system & send you the confirmation email.


• If yes, Thank you. We will update & send you the confirmation email.