Students’ Lilliputian school project

PETALING JAYA: A collection of 250 dolls and miniature figurines clad in traditional costumes were displayed at an exhibition entitled “A Step Back in History — Malaya 1950s Revisited”, recently.

The three-hour exhibition, which attracted some 200 visitors, was held at Beaconhouse Sri Inai School, here. The dolls and miniatures represent the peoples of 1950s Malaya and countries such as Thailand, China, Philippines, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, India, and the continents of Asia, Africa, America, Australasia and Europe.

It took 72-year-old doll maker and collector Dinah E. Salvador-Lai 50 years to build up the collection.

“The main objective of the programme is to educate the students about local and foreign cultures and traditions,” said Beaconhouse Malaysia regional director Zarina Mobarak.

Fifty of the school’s students, from non-examination classes who are at the aged of 9 nine to 16, designed the backdrops and booths under the guidance of 10 teachers. The students also managed the booths.

“It is good to organise such programmes in schools so that the younger generation will love and acknowledge our culture and tradition,” said Information, Communication and Culture Ministry deputy director-general (research and advocacy) Daresah Ismail who launched the event.

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