"When OUM first came to Sabah in 2001, we started out with 61 learners-50 in the Sabah Learning Centre and 11 in the Tawau Learning Centre," says Lamjin Atoh, the director of the learning centres, who also oversees the Sandakan Learning Centre, set up in 2003, and the learning centres in Keningau and Labuan, which were established in 2007.