I come from Bagan Serai, a communication student from Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman. I had my internship in Kuala Sepetang one year ago. During my internship period, I had the golden opportunity to visit Kuala Sangga, an impressive small fishing village which I can remember it vividly after one year. The teachers at Kuala Sangga always hope for more activities especially camp can be conducted for the children in Kuala Sangga. This inspires me to organize this meaningful education camp and be part of the family of Kuala Sangga, hand in hand with Khind Starfish Foundation.Kuala Sangga, a Chinese small fishing village on an island, is about half an hour boat journey from Kuala Sepetang, Taiping. After the World War II, there were 52 households here with the population of about 300 people. But today, there are only about 20 households with about 100 people living here. Now there are only 21 students studying in the Chinese primary school.Until today Kuala Sangga only able to reach by taking boat, the remote island is lacking of infrastructure and are marginalized from governmental development initiatives, there is no water and electricity supply here and thus, villagers have to drink rainwater. Fishermen here mainly catch prawns and catch blood clams to earn income. Due to less of job opportunity, many young people moving out of this island.There is neither police station nor health care center here. But few Chinese temples could be found here. ONE of the most respected institutions in Kuala Sangga is SRJK (C) Poay Chee, the local primary Chinse school. There are 10 teachers in this small school running six classes with each grade. They stay at the school during schooling day, weekends and holiday will head back to hometown. The school is playing an important role to the futures of the children of Kuala Sangga. Most of the children will hanging around the school compound until 6 pm as this is the only facilities which is well-equipped in the island. The school has its own power generators and water catchment system, and the library, standing alone above the water, even has air-conditioning. Kuala Sangga is a remote area in which access to education is limited, most of the children families are from low income and low education families, the numbers of children who are able to go to high schools after graduate from primary school are low.Kuala Sangga is an island surrounding with Mangrove forest. The children either understanding the concept of environment or their knowledge have connection to their personal experiences and observation of the animals and plants at mangrove forest. However, their understanding of their local environment as a place is only locally, they appeared to have limited ecological understanding and limited knowledge how the ecosystem works.The environmental education application in school is still challenging, the school only teaching us how to save environment but not the environment education. Majority of teachers’ lack of knowledge about environment and teachers who being send to fishing village felt their knowledge about coastal environment is very limited.We believe that Environment Education camp will enhance their understanding about their environment and their place within it. The children and teachers have seemed to develop their conceptual understanding and knowledge, they will be more capable to deal with environment issues and have commitment for sustainability. 

Illiteracy and low levels of literacy are prevalent amongst secondary school students in Malaysia. Many students are reading and writing only at kindergarten level. This is especially true in the low performing schools (Band 5 and 6) around Malaysia. Students are forced to follow through the syllabus without first gaining significant levels of literacy. These students either drop out of school before Form 3 or go through until Form Five without being able to read, write and speak in English. Students who are illiterate are also more likely to be involved in various social ills. LitMas (Literacy Malaysia) was incepted to help students who are illiterate in secondary school to be able to read and write in English. LitMas will use specially designed modules for this reading project.

School children who come from underprivileged backgrounds are disadvantaged in life. They do not have access or the opportunities to do well academically. They usually drop out of school and eventually get involved in crime, due to their low socio-economic status.According to an Annie E. Casey Foundation report, children who don’t read proficiently by third grade are four times more likely to leave high school without a diploma than students who are reading on grade level. (D. Hernandez, 2011).According to data given in the Malaysian education blueprint and PISA 2012, the average performance in reading of Malaysian 15-year-olds is 98 points lower than the average of OECD countries, ranked 58/64.And so The RE:ED Project (https://www.facebook.com/thereedproject) was established in 2013 to help these needy students have a better chance at success both in school and in life.

In our society nowadays, the education children receive depends on where they live, what their parents earn and other factors that are not related to their potential.As stated in the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025, around 36% of students enrolled to Year 1 in primary school in 2000 are either no longer enrolled in school, or have failed to achieve minimum standards in SPM examinations for core subjects (defined as Bahasa Malaysia, English language, Mathematics, Science, History, and Moral or Islamic Education) in 2010 where they supposed to complete Form 5. We feel that underprivileged students need extra assistance in their studies and also guidance in their lives.UPM is located in Sri Serdang. As part of the community, we feel that we can contribute to this community.We often see children wandering around at the low cost flat in Sri Serdang. They did not go to kindergarten because their parents could not afford to send them to kindergarten. Both parents are working in most of the families. They hardly have time and energy to help their children in their studies. Many of the students in the flat can’t understand simple mathema like 15 minus 8 even when they are in standard four. Some of the school age students can’t even read any single word of their mother tongue. Therefore, we are called to provide free education to help the underprivileged children.With donations from public, we succeeded to set up a community centre in the flat. After 6 months of pilot run, we succeeded to recruit 25 children from low income families. We also have a mini library where we get book donations from public. We teach the children and each of them has a performance record book. We evaluate their learning progress from time to time and share with their parents.The centre is old and has many parts need to repair. We also need some furniture, books, and stationeries so that we can accommodate more students’ needs.We strongly believe that our work impact the community tremendously. We believe that education can change the world. We appreciate each and single cent we raised from our friends and public. We use it wisely to make sure that it serves the children. The children here will never afford to have a computer at home. And we really hope to purchase computers here to help them learn to gain knowledge through computer.This is just a starting point for our project and our existing fund is not sufficient for us to organise more activities and buy necessary learning equipment for the children. We hope that with the fund from Khind Startfish Foundation, we can sustain our education project in this flat and continue bring love to the children.

Despite Malaysia’s remarkable achievements in health and education for her people, BUT there are still some children endure troubled and painful childhoods due to economic, social and rural-urban disparities.Joyful Childhood is a program that fully handle by the student and has been conceptualized to meet the needs of the unfortunate children. This program aimed to improve the quality of life of the unfortunate children so that they are free from painful childhoods .Meanwhile, It is also aimed at giving assistance, aid and care to the children by giving them some skill- training so that they are able to use the skill to generate some income.

Cooking oil is one of essential things in our life. Everyday there will be a lot of used cooking oil produced by households and restaurants every day. Currently, there is around 220,000,000 litres of used cooking oil is being dispose into drains every year in Malaysia. Waste oils of households have been ignored by used oil collector who only source for the major grease generators such as restaurants. Pouring down the grease into the drains not only pollute the environment, but also cling the inside of the pipes and sewer system.Instead of throwing it away, why not we change into something valuable? We come with an idea to change used cooking oil into soap. However, it is a decorative soap because further research need to be conduct in order to ensure the safety of the soap to be use. This kind of idea can provide job opportunities to the community of Taboh Naning which is located near our university. Most of the villagers work as a farmer or run a small business at Taboh Naning. By creating this product, it will be an adding up for their income and having more cleaned environmental as well.

Circle K of HELP College of Arts and Technology is going to have an interactive educative session with the children from Agathians Home from July 15’ to September 15’.The interactive educative session includes Tuition Classes, Character Building Classes, Arts & Craft Classes, Medical Attention, Psychology Therapies, and Music & Dance through home tuition, outing and camping.We have a team of communication, psychology, engineering, music and students with first aid knowledge which we can share and teach the children every bit of different fields. They will be expose to different areas and open up their mind about the fields available, allowing them to choose their interested field in future.

This project entitled “Attitude Determines Altitude!” aims to help the targeted Form 2 students from SMK Taman Miharja who are poor in financial and also academic. We propose to organize a Mental Health Motivational Talk Camp and provide tuition classes & mentoring series to help them cope better and more effectively in life.

4Nature is a project initiated under ENACTUS UUM, which aspires to improve the standard of living and quality of lives of farmers in Kedah and Perlis area. Currently, this project is co-operating with the Agriculture Department of Kedah to deliver and instill the knowledge of natural farming to the targeted farmers. Throughout the establishment, 4Nature had successfully conducted a few workshops in targeted places which focused on the theory and practical of making Indigenous Microorganism (IMO) which is a kind of organic fertilizers to fertile the soil and we also empower the farmers in our project to produce organic pest repellent. Besides that, we also introduce System of Root Intensification (SRI) which is able to increase the production of rice to 3 times more and the farmers can reduce the crop usage up to 280% compare with the conventional paddy plantation. We have impacted farmers in Kedah and Perlis area in the effort of practicing natural farming. This term, 4Nature is planning to build an irrigation system which is eco-friendly, user-friendly, lowcost. Currently, 4Nature is having experiment with our farmer in Chuping, Perlis in order to build an innovative irrigation system. Besides that, we are looking for collaborators who are expert in irrigation and agriculture system.