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Cultural Inculcation
Globalization is “the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale”. This idea is mainly based on Western philosophy and the idea of transparency from it has indirectly bring everyone into a mutual values and belief. The idealism of standardizing everything at the globalization scale has change the majority lifestyle, such as having everyone to speak English and adopting a materialistic and individualism lifestyle. However the emergence of such culture in countries such as Malaysia, have a certain impacts on their culture and tradition. For example, Malaysians possesses many language skills such as Hokkien, Bahasa Melayu and Tamil. However, as technology emerges in their life, these languages are neglected because the vital language to master technology is English. In long-term, all they left with will be what they can benefit from, not what they are made of. Globalization is able to bring together believers of the same but destroy those with alternate beliefs, subsequently leading to extinction of certain culture. Malaysia is well known for being a diversified country. Having all the ethnics together, the fusion of the culture has created a unique identity for Malaysians. The concept must be implanted strongly, especially into the minds of young adolescences that are still building self-identification with their country and ethnics. By truly understanding and appreciating it, they are able to protect their culture and overcome manipulation of multinational corporations and modernization. This project aims to inculcate culture awareness on orphanages. To achieve the objective, volunteers will be acting as facilitators and mentors to the children from orphanages to help them in understanding the culture of Malaysia. Volunteers will personally learn and then impart the knowledge to the children through various activities, such as Wau making and delicacies baking to ensure that both practical and basic knowledge of culture is genuinely absorbed by the children. It gives them a chance to learn traditions despite not having a family to demonstrate the practices to them.    
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Arts & Culture
“Serakal Berzanji 4 Youth”
Berzanji is an intangible cultural heritage that has long been practiced in Malay society in Malaysia. There are many good values for character building and human relation embodied in Berzanji.Normally, this Malay heritage is held during the Maulidurrasul (Prophet Muhammad’s Birthday) celebration and also during the ceremony of celebrating birth and marriage.However, not many young people know the origins and philosophies behind this Berzanji tradition. The Arabic words in Berzanji are being read without full understanding of its meaning so that the stories and values in Berzanji are left unknown and unstudied.Plus, the Berzanji tradition is no longer a compulsory activities in the Malay community celebration.Nevertheless, in Sungai Kuali Serkat Pontian village, this tradition is still preserved. This cultural heritage is an asset with can support a sustainable rural development.This tradition reinforces the family institution, especially in educating children with the value of love, care, gratefulness and tolerance. The instillation of this value is not only in words or stories in berzanji but also through the symbolic events such as hair shaving and harmony interaction between members of the community during the event.Thus, “Serakal Berzanji 4 Youth” is planned to restore the uniqueness of Berzanji for the young and modern generation. This can be achieved by taking the Kampung Sungai Kuali Serkat Pontian as a model.This project involves university students, local residents, school children and NGOs as an effort to strengthen Malaysian society unity through conserving and revitalizing the art of Berzanji as cultural heritage.
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SPEAK UP!
The Malaysian secondary school students have a poor command of English & lack of good communication abilities. Based on the National Education Blueprint 2013-2025 (Pre-school to Post-Secondary Education), 3 of 10 of secondary students achieved a minimum credit in SPM English paper. At the same time, one of the most highlighted importance of raising quality of education by the general public is communication skills among secondary students.Thus in accordance to the 4th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG #4), project Speak Up! is created by AIESEC in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) to specifically target the English proficiency level of Malaysian primary & secondary school students.By collaboration with MyReaders in the field of education training and facilitate, various effort is made to ensure the impact of the project. Among the efforts would be Read for Life high school workshops to help to improve literacy of student that have learning difficulties in English. This is done by syllabus designed by MyReader to target specifically for those student that have learning difficulty and can’t catch up with their peer in school.Beside Speak Up! workshop is another initiative to expose the concept of Sustainable Development Goals to students and to improve their presentation skills. Volunteers will teach students on how to relate SDG to our community, and coach them on how to present their ideas during the end of the workshop.Focused on secondary schools and primary school students around the area of Kajang, Bandar Baru Bangi, held and facilitated by international volunteer that came from Asia Pacific region.
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