To catch you up, as many of you would remember, we recently rallied everyone from across the YTL Group to vote for the Learn From Home initiative for an international award and spread the word to family and friends.  

Over the past 2 years, the Learn From Home initiative, in collaboration with FrogAsia, YTL Communications, Teach For Malaysia, MyReaders, Pelangi, Kindity and CIMB Foundation, has built free online lessons for the entire Malaysian school curriculum. Through the initiative, 800,000 smartphones and SIM cards, 1,400 online lessons and 13,500 quizzes that are available at https://www.ytlfoundation.org/learnfromhome/

 have been distributed.
 

Before we make the official announcement on how we fared, let us first do some build up with some facts and figures: 

• Organiser: AVPN, the #1 newsletter on social investment in Asia 
• 2022 is their third installment of the Constellations Awards, a celebration of the remarkable ways in which social investors across Asia collaborate to address the complex challenges of our times 
• Learn From Home Initiative (LFH) was selected as one of 12 finalists for the People’s Choice Award category, alongside notable names such as the IKEA Foundation, Dream a Dream, USAID and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  

• Who were the other finalists? 

1. Bharat EdTech Initiative (BEI) (Sattva Media and Consulting Pvt. Ltd.)
   
2. Cha-Ching Money-Smart Kids (“Cha-Ching”) (Prudence Foundation)
3. Green Inclusive Cloud – Carbon Emission Reduction Digital Account Book (Beijing Green Inclusive Technology Co., Ltd) 
4. Impact Pioneers Network (Xchange, Villgro Philippines, Artha Impact [Rianta Capital], DFAT) 
5. Jal Sanjivani (United Way Mumbai) 
6. Kilkari and Mobile Academy (LGT Venture Philanthropy) 
7. Life Skills Collaborative (Breakthrough India Trust, Children Investment Fund Foundation, Dream a Dream, Pratham Education Foundation, Quest Alliance, Magic Bus, Porticus Asia, Omidyar Network India, Sattva Consulting) 
8. Systemic Approach For Improving Oxygen Access And Creating Sustainable Oxygen Systems During COVID-19 In India (The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, JHPIEGO, Google.org) 
9. Powering Livelihoods (Villgro Innovations Foundation, IKEA Foundation) 
10. Project Sampoorna (Dream a Dream, IDInsight, Kaivalya Education Foundation, Porticus, Quest Alliance) 
11. Puhang Pangkabuhayan: MPIF’S Road-to-Recovery Alternative Livelihood Programme (Metro Pacific Investments Foundation Inc.) 

• A grand total of 7,371 votes received 

So how many votes did all of us, friends and family included, garner together? 

4,106 

We won by a landslide!!! 😮🤩🥳👏🎉🎊🙌🏆

This counts as a win not just for the LFH initiative, but for every single one of us who voted and rallied support too! So, CONGRATULATIONS, and a huge THANK YOU!!!