Volunteers tell stories to underprivileged children

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EtonHouse Community Fund (ECF) is recruiting volunteers under a new initiative to get underprivileged pre-school children interested in storybooks.

About 60 volunteers have been trained for its Teacher Everywhere programme so far and more than 200 have expressed interest since recruitment began in October last year.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on November 22, 2021, with the headline Volunteers tell stories to underprivileged children. Subscribe