The Power Of Education

Giving underprivileged children an education and the tools to make the right decisions in life.

- Flavia Galeotti

Reverend Elisha Satvinder knows how valuable a good education is. Growing up in a Sikh family in Petaling Jaya, his father died suddenly from a heart attack, leaving his mother to raise six children on her own, often working hard and leaving the young Satvinder to his own devices. “I became an outstanding student in school – I was standing out of class all the time,” he recalls with a laugh. By the age of 18, he was working in a tavern (“I often say I served the wrong spirit, behind the wrong bar council”) and was heading down a bad track, but turned his life around at 20 when God spoke to him. He joined a church and made a commitment to make his life right, where he began helping out and working with the young people there, encouraging them go to school. “I started doing that without realising it because I knew in my own heart I wasted 20 years of my life just being a complete nincompoop,” he says.