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Malaysia achieved universal primary education through programs that helped poor and rural students access schools and education resources. These programs included a textbook loan scheme, supplementary food scheme, school health programs, and a school milk program. The schemes helped reduce financial burdens and ensure students in remote areas and from low-income families had access to education, health services, food, and milk. Over three million primary students benefited from these programs in 2002.

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Malaysia achieved universal primary education through programs that helped poor and rural students access schools and education resources. These programs included a textbook loan scheme, supplementary food scheme, school health programs, and a school milk program. The schemes helped reduce financial burdens and ensure students in remote areas and from low-income families had access to education, health services, food, and milk. Over three million primary students benefited from these programs in 2002.

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Malaysia’s success in achieving universal primary education is, in

large part, attributed to the creation of an environment conducive to


primary education. This includes providing proper infrastructure to
ensure access to schools and supporting the needs of the rural poor.
There are programmes that helped special students such as:

1. Textbook-on-loan-scheme
 introduced in 1975
 to reduce the financial burden of low incomes parents and ensures
education for all.
 Out of more than three million primary school children enrolled
for the year 2002, 84 per cent of them qualified for the textbook-on-
loan scheme.

2. Supplementary food scheme


 introduced in 1976 as part of the National Applied Food and
Nutrition Programme
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 was primarily for rural and poor students who lives in remote
area.
 this programme is aimed at children whose parents earn RM400
or less per month.

3. School health programme:


 objective of this programme is to produce healthy and
productive pupil.
 In 1995, WHO introduced the Health Promoting School Project
(HPSP). With the cooperation of the MOH, the MOE provides
health and dental services for primary school children from
Primary 1 to Primary 6.

4. School milk programme:


 the Ministry of Agriculture ran a programme to supply milk to
schools, especially rural schools.
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the School Milk Programme which complements the Supplementary
Food Programme is specifically for the poor and under-privileged
pupils.
 under this programme, these children receive two to three packets of
milk per week. Funds spent on this programme totaled more than
RM16 million per annum.

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