Mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB-MLE) programme aims to provide quality education to monolingual children from non-dominant language communities. It is a child-centred education approach that begins early grade education and literacy in students' first language. Through the programme, students become multilingual, multi-literate and multi-cultural as they gradually build up their proficiency and confidence in using languages of the wider community to access the mainstream education as well as for everyday communication.