There are simply too many cats for the number of homes that want a pet, and we humans are not always the most responsible guardians even when we do accept these animals into our homes. Too frequently, cats end up lost or abandoned and revert to a feral lifestyle in order to survive. Animals shelters suffer under the weight of high demand for services and too few resources, and the result is a burgeoning population of unowned cats that urgently require attention and effective management.There are some organisations that claim to have compassion for animals and to stand up against cruelty to animals are not endowed financially nor have the capacity of house and care for the exploding stray population. Ending up, they still comes out with the same situation which is abandoning animals because of some reasons. Every year, thousands of cats suffer as strays and these high numbers are the result of unplanned litters.The population dynamics of stray cats make the problem particularly difficult to deal with, while the effects of predation by cats and the spread of disease affect all of us to some extent.Not only that, with the recent event of covid-19 pandemic have cause the government enforced Movement Control Order(MCO) to control the spread of covid-19. Under MCO, many people staying indoors and non-essential businesses including restaurant and roadside eateries were shut and closed. This make the situation of stray animals becoming hard as their usual food and water supply from these businesses and restaurants are suddenly cut off which causes them to face starvation and dehydration.Hence, to combat the problems caused by the cat overpopulation crisis, we as a society need to acknowledge the value of cats and raise the level of care and responsibility for these domestic animals. So, animal welfare is one of the most important thing to overcome this problem. In this aspects, we need to consider about animal care and its food during this pandemic.

During this pandemic, we know that the rate of unemployment has increases and stock market has plunge. In Malaysia we had to face many challenges to deal with this problem especially the citizen. We come up with this project to help ease the burden. This project was to expose the youth and villagers on making side income from this project and gain knowledge in agriculture using fertigation system. This project is easy to adapt, and the crops also can be sold as there is always a food demand on this plant in our country.

So many people lament the coldness of modern society. People could care less what happens. People that care less are from young children such as primary school children till universities student even for those who graduated and started their career. Therefore, we need to solve this issue by reducing coldness of modern society, we can educate the young’s so that they are capable and creatives to create a handicraft that can express their thoughts and love. The handicraft is a token of our regard. This handicraft skill should be educated and cultivated when one is young. This handicraft skill can be learned through face-to-face or online platform, we can better understand the need to learn and to show our love because the community need our love to warm it. This project is a special event which provide a platform to share, train participant’s creativity and critical thinking, by use the material or sources nearby that available to make a handicraft. The handicraft can gift as a present to someone who is special or mean to you. The receiver can be a stranger, your roommate, friends, course mates, partner, family member, teacher or lecturer. In this indifferent society, we need a little surprise or gift to share with the important people or the person we care so that they can know and feel that they are mean to us. We are less creatives, we only show our care and love by buying present which are expensive. Back to basic, we can make special and grand handicraft to utilize our creativity and gift this handicraft to show our love to others.The participants can learn new origami (instructor is demo and guide the origami folding process), simultaneously participants can practice and follow the techniques on how to fold handicraft such as roses, heart, boxes and small decorations such as stars and . In addition, this workshop provided small accessories to participants to enhance, add on and decorate their handicraft. All handicraft created are exhibit to all participants to review each participant’s ideas and photos is taken as memories and as future reference and exhibition. The photos and output will save as exhibition and open to public. The participants can reduce stress by enjoy doing handicraft. Handicraft is one of the best methods to show and share our loves and cares to people nearby and this action can cheer people that feel down or not in good mood. We students have a lot of wastepaper such as used A4 paper. We may do handicraft creatively with the recycle paper and decorate it with poster colors or spray color. We also can directly use color paper and manila cards to proceed and fold the handicraft. Small decoration such as cuddly toy or snacks can be added to increase the handicraft’s value.

Even in 2020, not all households in Sabah have access to clean water for daily use. It has become a major drawback for the community especially in rural areas to carry out their daily lives. Clean water plays an important role as a basic need for our daily lives. For some rural areas in Sabah, communities are struggling to attain reliable clean water supply. It was reported by Director of the State Water Department Amarjit Singh that overall water storage levels at major dams in Sandakan, Kudat, Penampang, Tamparuli, Semporna and Lahad Datu are relatively high, however, dams water reserves are not replenished with depleted rivers at critical levels despite the ongoing heatwave and this will affect societies which relies on these as their main source of water. Mr Amarjit said villagers still have access to alternate water source in similarly hard-hit Keningau; while in Bingkor residents will be sent tankers to supply them with much needed water. This hotfix solution will not remedy underlying problem of lack of clean water supply. With recent development and rapid urbanisation, water sources from river and rain may not be as clean as back then, this can endanger health as river water may contain harmful microorganisms or contaminated with pesticide and herbicide from farming/ plantation.Hence, we aim to provide simple basic physical treatment of water filtration embedded within water storage among communities to fulfil the demands. This can improve the access and quality of water supply and improve sanitation quality to enable the community to live a better life. Therefore, the villagers will have a safe and sustainable water supply thus avoiding health problems as well as improving their quality of living which we aim to eventually transfer the operation and maintenance knowledge for continuous function of installed treatment system.Technology BackgroundThe effectiveness of bio-char usage in wastewater treatment has been discussed in several studies. Char-filter absorbers have been practically used over the years for its low cost, locally managed and decentralized treatment technologies made it a sustainable treatment option for rural households to achieve this harmonization with treatment trains in modern drinking water plants (Kearns J et al., 2015). Biochar was produced from moisture-free, finely ground feedstocks and pyrolyzed under highly controlled laboratory conditions (Kearns JP et al., 2019). Biochar can be obtained by purchasing charcoal from either local shops or ordered online and cleaned it few times. Besides, the usage of biochar was proposed instead of other media due to its distinctive characteristics which include adsorption capacity, ion exchange capacity, micro porosity and specific surface area. The installation of this filter tank includes three filtration mechanisms and treated water storage for each barrel namely gravel roughing pre-filter, slow sand biofilter and biochar adsorbent. Gravel roughing pre-filter acts to remove sediments, gritty organic matter and some microorganisms and requires monthly backwashing in order to flush out accumulated sediments and solids. Next, slow sand biofilter is responsible to eliminate fine particles, biodegradable dissolved organic matter and microbial pathogens and requires filter harrowing in order to maintain the design flow rate. Moreover, biochar adsorbent accounts for organic & chemical contaminants discharge and require biochar replacement in 3 years cycle to maintain quality of water. In addition, the installation of biochar water filter was first designed in South-East-Asia countries and one of them was implemented in Thai-Burma border serving a boarding school for ethnic Karen migrant/refugee children. The system costs about $125to construct and can be assembled with minimal hand tools besides providing years of service with periodic maintenance of the water filter (Kearns J., 2012). This water filter used to treat water for direct drinking and serve other facilities. Researches in Africa also working together towards development of technology and implementation of biochar based water filter in Africa (Gwenzi, Willis, 2018). 

Peoples today are ignoring the people around for the sake of their lives. We hope to bring the stories of groups that exist in our lives that we do not concern. We hope to share the stories of single mothers / homosexuals.

Poverty is a social problem that can have negative impacts on the functioning of family systems. Studies show disruption of the functioning of family systems in all dimensions, where the greatest family disruption was found in dimensions of role, behaviour control and affective involvement. (SHS Web of Conferences 30, 2016).According to the statistics department in Malaysia, the absolute poverty rate in Malaysia is noted at 5.6% in 2019 following the revision of the national poverty line income (PLI) (Department of Statistics Malaysia). This data suggested that there are still families that are still living in poverty. Studies suggested that families experiencing poverty (FEP) are often exposed to unique stressors such as financial and housing instability, poor nutrition, and community violence. Poverty is an inequity that can create negative impact to both physical and mental health to children and adults who lives under poverty (Buckner, Bassuk, Weinreb, & Brooks, 1999; Raver, 2004).In a FEP, parents experience big economic and emotional stressors that can detract themselves from providing consistent, caring, and supportive parenting to their children. Stressors may also include single-parenthood, social isolation, substance abuse and mental illnesses. (Bolen, McWey, & Schlee, 2008). These factors may leave their children at risk on developmental challenges. (Foley, 2010). Moreover, parent-children relationship may be affected due to neglection and more seriously, child abuse. These can adversely impact children’s social and emotional development. (Bolger, Patterson, Thompson, & Kupersmidt, 1995; Samuels, Shinn, & Buckner, 2010; Sroufe, 2005). The negative chronic traumatic events can lead to behavioural issues and directly impacting children’s success in school. (Herbers, Cutuli, Monn, Narayan, & Masten, 2014; Herbers, Cutuli, Supkoff et al., 2014; Masten, 2012; Narayan, Herbers, Plowman, Gewirtz, & Masten, 2012; Obradovic et al., 2009; Smith, Stagman, Blank, Ong, & McDow, 2011).There is a growing number of scholarly studies that investigate music and poverty, that has provided valuable information on the music-and-poverty context. Psychosocial treatment interventions, including the music-based therapeutic interventions, may be used to decrease the effects of stresses related to poverty, and perhaps to restore generational gap between parents and children in a FEP context.

Children have a right to thrive, develop to their full potential, and live in a sustainable world.Sustainability in early childhood education, at home and in school, is an important part of a child’s upbringing. The older generation has the responsibility to make sustainable education a part of everyday practices, rather than a topic or theme to consider for a short time, it needs to be embedded within day-to-day learning. Sustainable education enables educators and children to promote a sense of responsibility, show respect for the natural environment, be active participants and bring about inquiry and social change. With this in mind, our group came up with an idea to help young children learn about sustainability while incorporating themes such as engineering, public speaking and teamwork. The Green Box Project is an initiative to distribute boxes containing clean and safe recycled materials and instructions for the children to make their own engineering themed experiments and inventions. The kits will have three types, the first being a Rube Goldberg Machine, second one will be a DIY Water Filter experiment, and last one is a Recycled Robot Coin Box. There will also be a book donation drive to offer the children more reading materials to help with their reading and writing skills.  The chosen area for this project is at Etania School, Beaufort. The school aims to provide quality education for marginalized, undocumented, and stateless children in Sabah, Malaysia. There are many thousands of children without access to education and Etania is determined to provide access to beneficial and relevant learning programs for these children. Etania schools run a full learning program, 6 days a week with all the necessary curriculum subjects. The school is located along a river with a history of massive floods once every 10 years or so. The destruction of the original rainforest and their replacement by oil palm plantations has increased the flood risk even further. Therefore, the prototype school is, not unlike much of Borneo’s vernacular architecture, raised from the ground. However, the classrooms are here lifted off the ground in an unconventional way.Some of the problems that we are passionate to solve are poverty, and to create a more sustainable world. Formal education in public and private schools have programs and campaigns that educate young children about the importance of protecting the environment and leading a more sustainable life. However, many children of foreign workers are not as lucky to learn about the environment as they are more skill-based.. We are grateful to come across Etania schools, with 12 branches in Sabah, that aims to provide primary education to the underprivileged children, through activities and daily lessons.Hopefully the Green Ribbon Box Project would inspire the children to learn and care for the environment, at the same time teaching them how to reuse and recycle materials. We will also have a book donation, as we will be making a reading corner at the school or a mini library so the kids can bring the books home to read so they would not feel discouraged about school during these hard times.   Since the Covid-19 pandemic, students all over the world had to resort to online learning due to the need for social distancing. These students have been impacted in the biggest way, especially since many of them do not have the facilities and gadgets necessary for a smooth transition from face to face learning to online learning at home. There is no fast route to solve this problem, but through the Green Ribbon Box Project (GRBP), we aim to help in small ways to encourage not only the children of Etania but also parents and teachers to motivate, and examine the readiness of the students to learn in fun ways that help strengthen relationships through blended learning. It is important to remember that since most students do not have access to online platforms, it is better to synchronise and blend appropriate approaches so every student can have access to learn. If by the implementation date, a gathering with appropriate Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) is not possible, the Green Ribbon Boxes can still be distributed to the students of Etania for their learning at home. 

We believe that the kids from the place does not feel or carry trust to themselves in speaking in English language. We also found out that the kids from the school has never been introduced to performance-based English learning therefore we would like to be the innovative group to introduce to themselves a fun and impactful way of learning English and at the same time help them to improve their confidence in English language. It also provides us, future English teachers, the experience to use our knowledge, skills and values learnt in Universiti Malaya through our TESL course to help the underprivileged children.

The production of the walking trail is made based the idea of not only to foster and encourage healthier environments using sustainable solution but also to recycle waste material to produce. It is expected to create a fun and practical direct learning in understanding the importance of recycling waste material (plastic waste into walking trail block- as shown in Fig 1) and sustainability for all ages. Furthermore, the engagement with outside campus communities in developing the waste product is expected to made the youngsters appreciate and value the importance of communication and management skills by distinguish engineering solution in integrating professional, societal and ethical responsibilities toward the ecosystem