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SAFETY RIDE
Kg Melayu Majidee is a Malay village located in the city of Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia. Its population is around 30,000 people. The huge population come from different age groups consisting of children (0-14 years), youth (15-24 years), adults (25-64 years), and seniors (65 years and above). The North-South Expressway's southern exit point in Johor Bahru Interchange connects Kampung Melayu Majidee from the direction of Ulu Tiram. Kg. Melayu Majidee is flanked by major roads which link to the city. Economically, it is surrounded by fast-paced developments for Johor Bahru. Kampung Melayu Majidee is enjoying the state capital's resources for humanitarian developments and township infrastructures.As a result of fast development and huge population increment, many road accidents occur throughout the years. On 18 February 2017, there were 8 teenagers dead due to the road accident during cycling at Johor Bahru. It was informed that the police picked about 20 modified bicycles and wrecked bicycles from the scene of the accident. From these accidents, it was found that many people do not pay enough attention to the safety awareness on the road. Rules and regulations, safety equipment and attitudes are important criteria for safety awareness.This project aims to help children in primary and secondary schools to have safety awareness on the road. It is important that they can take safety measurements when they are on the road to reduce the possibilities of road accidents in the future. It is hoped that this community project will spread to all districts in Johor and then Malaysia later.
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Helping the Underprivileged Community
Parents For A Day - Kidolympic
Introduction to Sunway Student Volunteers (SSV)SSV is a student leadership body in Sunway University. To date, we have more than 1,000 members and we are constantly organizing events to help the Poor and the Needy. We organize and help in more than 100 events on a yearly basis. In SSV, we believe that everyone can make a difference because a truthful effort brings joy to others.Parents for a DayParents for a day is a semiannual SSV event that brings underprivileged kid out to the city and out of their village in order to gain new experience and also provide a learning ground for the children.So, what is Kidolympic?In short, Kidolympic is a sports day event which is mainly organized for the Orang Asli children.Underprivileged kids eg. Orang Asli Kids do not have the chance to experience what most of us experienced as kids – sports day. Hence, we propose this project to allow the children to gain a new experience. Through this project, the children will get to experience the city, and we believe this would be a good exposure to them as they seldom have the chance to come out from their village.This project (sports day event) will be a good platform for them to learn some new skills such as leadership skills, communication skills and also teamwork. We would also get to build their confidence throughout this event as we would be giving out medals to each one of them at the end of the event.By organizing Kidolympic, we hope to make a change in the Orang Asli community by educating the children as they are the next generation of the community.
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Quality Education
Misi Banteras Masalah Literasi (MBML)
Department of Education and Training, Queensland Government define literacy as the ability to read, view, write, design, speak and listen in a way that allows you to communicate effectively. The power of literacy lies not just in the ability to read and write, but rather in a person’s capacity to apply these skills to effectively connect, interpret and discern the intricacies of the world they are living in. Helping someone to read and write effectively which many of us take for granted, can actually improves the future of everyone in our societyExcellent literacy skills open the doors to employment opportunities so that people are able to pull themselves out of poverty and chronic underemployment. Illiteracy is one of the biggest factors for underemployment and it happens a lot to the lower socio-economic status people. The children we observed got lack of education attention from their parents at early age. Thus this inadequateness leads to illiteracy problem amongst the children, and we are trying to start from here.Harian Metro reported that according to a survey conducted by The Global Campaign for Education, with thousands of teachers from 150 countries found that 106 million students from around the world failed to get a good basic education. Furthermore, Datuk Nafisah Ahmad, the National Library of Malaysia director- general, said that Malaysia’s literacy rate is 94.64% out of almost 31 million populations. In Selangor, a population of 6.2 million of which adult literacy rate is at 95.7% - which is 4.3% are suffering from illiteracy which equivalent to 266,600 people. Out of these numbers, there are 23 children in Kampung Setia Jaya (KSJ), Selangor who cannot read and another 35 children who are able to read but did not understand what they read.We believed that education and literacy are the tools needed for a society to arrive to its true form of happiness. Misi Banteras Masalah Literasi is a project to help the lower socioeconomic status community in increasing Malay and English language literacy level among the children in KSJ. We aim to accomplish this mission by conducting periodical classes of two times per week, which will be facilitated by students from International Islamic Universtiy Malaysia (IIUM), Gombak. This class will be using one-on-one teaching concept. Each class will be held for one hour and thirty minutes. Each student will be allocated with 10 minutes to read in front of a facilitator. This project will be using a wellestablished module from iSina as the ground and guide for the facilitators. All facilitators involved must attend three courses/workshops organized by iSina and all of them will be certified by iSina as a proof of teaching qualification.
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Selangor International Islamic University College (SIUC)
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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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