The Community Learning Centre (CLC) under the Community Education Programme which was developed by PACOS Trust, provides pre-school education for indigenous children under the age of 6. The Centre also runs a non-formal educational programme that imparts skills and traditional knowledge of IP that has been transmitted from generation to generation. The Centre was established as a venue for communities to share knowledge and skills related to the indigenous ways of life, including handicraft, music, dances, language and food. 118 The curriculum which focuses on learning IP’s way of life is improved from time to time in line with the needs and aspirations of the communities. Table 4 shows the activities offered by PACOS under the CLC programme. TABLE 6: PROGRAMMES PROVIDED BY THE CLC NO CATEGORIES 1. Children PROGRAMMES Educational based ACTIVITIES programme Classroom activities. on Government Using mother tongue as a curriculum but modified to medium of interaction for better incorporate elements related understanding. to the indigenous way of life. Older generation indigenous passing of Basket weaving, communities management, down traditional traditional resources fishing, music farming, instruments, knowledge and skills to the traditional costumes. younger generation in order to preserve such knowledge and skills. 2. Youth Providing the youths who had Resource dropped out schools from with formal harvesting, management, paddy documentation, traditional mapping, NCR workshop knowledge and skills. 3. Women Preservation of knowledge and traditional Handcraft / weaving practice Traditional medicine through indigenous way of Farming PACOS Trust <http://www.pacostrust.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=126&Itemid=76>accessed 25 March 2013 118 41