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Quality Education
Teachers to the Rescue!
Recently, there were a number of cases involving babies and toddlers died at the nursery. One of the factors of this is due to difficulty of breathing. Besides, foreign body airway obstruction is quite common to happen among babies and toddlers. Other factors that lead to these may vary but a simple and easy act may change the consequence. Having teachers who are equipped with the skills of first-aid training and CPR may be rewarding as they may be the ‘first help’ to the children in need. One may be lucky if the nursery is located near to the hospital, but what about those located in the rural area in which the hospital is one hour away? A first-aid could act as the earliest saving action that may change everything. Some teachers may have undergone the course but a refresher course on this is not something wasteful. Considering this, we intend to hold a first-aid training to 30 teachers from 15 nurseries around Segamat, Johor as the result may work wonders. The nurseries cater to the needs of infants and toddlers (up to 4 years old). This training will expose the teachers on first-aid intervention. It will be a one-day training which comes with hands-on training where the teachers will be honoured with a certification at the end of the training. Eight fire brigade students from UiTM will also be involved as facilitators during this training. This training is hoped to contribute to the society as it may save lives of the innocence.
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Helping the Underprivileged Community
Autism is a Gift
According to Autism Society of America (2016), Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex developmental disability that affects a person’s ability to communicate and interact with others and also well define as “spectrum condition” that affects the person’s behavior. Normally, this disorder happens during childhood. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDD) (2014) claim that, about 1 percent of the world population has autism spectrum disorder. However, currently in Malaysia, there is no epidemiological data available on the prevalence of autism in Malaysia. But, a smaller scale study by the Ministry of Health on children between the ages 18 to 26 months showed a rate of 1.6 in 1000 children, or approximately 1 in 62512 (MOH,CPG: Management of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children and Adolescents, 2014). Thus, in order to improve the outcomes of this disorder, awareness among parents should be increased. Besides, early diagnosis/intervention and access to appropriate services/supports should be done (Autism Society of America, 2016).In this program, we would like to cooperate with occupational therapy’s (OT) students from UiTM Puncak Alam, a Non – Governmental Organization Akademi Autism Insani and Association of Muslim Intelctual Generation (AMILIN). The target group participation in this program is parents with autistic children whom registered under Akademi Autism Insani and UiTM students. There are about 15 students will be handling this program. Five facilitators from ‘Persatuan Islam Al-Falah’, five from AMILIN and another five facilitators from UiTM Puncak Alam students.
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Arts & Culture
Chinese Cultural Camp
Malaysia is a country with several of races and ethnics. Each races have their own unique cultures and traditional costumes, included Malaysian Chinese. Organizing this camp is giving all Malaysian Chinese from different university in Malaysia a chance to understand and embrace their culture that have mostly being forgotten by not only Malaysian Chinese, but all Chinese from all over the world.Why is this happening? All of this started when the Ming Dynasty falls and China being ruled by the Manchurians(满洲人) for centuries. In that period, all Chinese cultures and traditional costumes were vanished by the Manchurians in order to take over the country and turn them to their kind. It was said that to vanish a race, you have to vanish its culture first. So the Chinese(so called Han“汉”) were forced to shave their hair and wear the Manchurian’s traditional costume.A huge crowd refused to shave their hair that time because it was said that hair is a part of what your parents gave and should be cherish. That is why a lot of Chinese were killed by the Manchurians with the slogan of “keep your hair without your head or keep your head without your hair”. Centuries passed, Chinese nowadays no longer know what is really their culture and traditional costumes. Pity to know that most of the Chinese wear Cheongsam and Samfu which is modified by the Manchurian’s traditional costumes and thought that those costumes are Chinese traditional costumes.Until an organization, which is Young Malaysians Movement (YMM) started to think and find out our true traditional costumes and cultures after discovering Hanfu, which is the Chinese Traditional Costume. So they stared to organize camps and talks in schools and public. Unfortunately, most of the Chinese university students are not able to attend these camps because of the financial problems. So, this camp is held to enable all Chinese students from different universities to attend this camp for 2 days and 1 night. With Khind Starfish Foundation, this program will be organized smoothly without worrying the financial problems.Furthermore, this camp will be having a lot of activities such as teaching Chinese traditional manners by the professionals who studied about this. Also, the participants will be having a chance to learn the Chinese traditional archery(汉射) in order to learn a lesson which is self-reflection. Thus, all Chinese students from different universities in Malaysia stand a chance to know each other and share their opinions.
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Environmental Protection
Clean Rivers for Recreation
River is one of the natural resources that provide numerous benefits to mankind. For instance, it may be used as a communication system of transport, marine farming, the fisheries, tourism and many more. However with the presence of contaminations, all these benefits will be vanished over time. Extensive pollution able to eliminate all sources of income including damaging life ecosystem. Moreover, dirty waterway can cause variety of diseases to humans, plants and animals.Stream contaminations and pollution can be addressed with appropriate actions such as river cleaning programs on an ongoing basis and having river care campaign with the local community. The main objective is to nurture awareness of the youngsters of the cleanliness and beauty of the river.“Clean River & Recreation” may be one of the inspiring ideas that will change the minds of the young people and local community towards positive thinking. This program will be carried out in collaboration with volunteers from Persatuan Penyayang of UiTM Cawangan Johor Kampus Pasir Gudang. Through the collaboration, it is hoped that it will be able to cultivate the interest of young generations to care on the cleanliness of the river. Furthermore, this program might be part of leisure activities such as playing remote control boat on the river. A growing number of young people play and involve with the game, the higher the positive impact of this group to care on the river since they requires a clean area for recreation purposes.
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Soyai Malaysia- Soymilk SelfSustainability Proje
What is SoyAi?SoyAi Malaysia is a social entrepreneurship project of selling soy milk with the aim of helping the Myanmar refugees in Malaysia.How are we helping?In order to help out Myanmar refugees found commonly around the area of Sunway Mentari, we have decided to start up a small in house business for them whereby they are able to have their own small production line on site in their learning centre. We address their needs to sustain on their own feet independently. This is because we would like them to be able to survive without relying heavily on the help of the public as they have been constantly depending on the funds from the public.Through this project, Myanmar refugees will also obtain the chance to gain some business and entrepreneurial skills. This project is the perfect platform for them to experience and widen their knowledge about how businesses are being conducted which are life-long survival skills.The caretakers of the centre will also be taught on simple financial recording for business purposes. Through this hands-on method and with our burning desire and passion in tackling the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we hope more Myanmar refugees would be able to receive equal opportunities to receive proper education and hence, increasing the job employment rate of refugees in Malaysia.How do we ensure that this project will work?This project will be closely collaborated with the SoyAi Myanmar. SoyAi Myanmar team has more than 3 years experiences in this field and they manage to break into markets by having their soymilk sold at major shopping complexes and the international hotels in Yangon, Myanmar. Their clients include selected outlets of the convenience store, Park Royal Hotel, Yangon Bakehouse, Tutti Lethwei Gym, Go Green Organic Food Shop and the rest are private deliveries for offices and homes. Some offices order up to 100 bottles per week. Their current sales per week are about 1400 bottles of soy milk.Besides, we have also contacted a local soymilk seller to provide guidance to SoyAi Malaysia team.We will also have a back-up legal team for this project in the event of disruption as refugees have no legal status in Malaysia.
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