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. 

We are a team of IIUM Roboteam propose a project to do corporate social responsibility (CSR) to help the under privileged school related to STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) learning tools. With the practical approach like robotics that we want to bring, we hope that students are more interested and easily understand the theoretical knowledge that they learn in school. Most of the applications of robotic technology to education have mainly focused on supporting the teaching of subjects that are closely related to the robotic field, such as mechatronics, invention, robot programming and robot construction. Most of the application available have used the robot as an end or passive tool of learning activity, where the robot has been constructed and programmed. We relate the robotics with a non-robotic related subjects, such as mathematics and physics. The robotic kit also have a module to actively guide in the development of the educational activity. The robotics approach are presented based on a collaborative and constructivist learning environment, where the robot is able to act as an interaction mediator capable of managing the interactions occurring among the working students. We propose a research to develop multi-programming interfaces for the educational robotic kit. The main purpose of the invention is to increase the problem-based learning curriculum and the practical application of engineering concept learned in theory.

IIUM Caring Club is the sole club under CENSERVE that strives to help the orphans towards successful life ahead, academically and spiritually. Mentor-mentee Anak Yatim Caring or MAYANG for short, is the newest installment in the many project conducted by the Caring Club. This new project will be focusing on enhancing the educational level and spiritual knowledge of the orphans by ways of specialized modules created by the members of the Caring Club. The theme is “Strive for Success”, chosen to instill the determination to work hard in order to achieve the targeted goal.

Children in low economic setting and poor environment as well as marginalized community are often being left out and have lack of voices in the community. These children, such as orphans, estate school students and Orang Asli often do not have enough opportunities in academic studies as compared to other children. Orphanages, for example often face many learning difficulties and have high level of illteracy and innumeracy but unfortunately they cannot afford to go for extra tuition classes.On top of that, they are lacking of emotional support from others and have to attend many charity events organised by the wealthy people or organisations every weekend thus resulting them to have less time for academic revision. Similarly, Orang Asli and estate children have limited access to catchup programs. Eventually, these children often give up on their academic education because they cannot even read, count and write and hence resulting them to have low self-esteem. This would subsequently reduce or narrow down their life aims and ambitions. In worst case scenario, some of them get involved in various types of crimes and become beggars.According to Khokhar, Garg and Bharti (2005), 44.2% subjects have dropped out of school due to illiteracy. By 2010, only 15% Malaysians aged 15 and above attained tertiary education and only 61% attained secondary education (Barro & Lee, 2010). 9% of them had no schooling (Barro & Lee, 2010).Teach For Raub is established and has been registered under Registrar of Societies (RoS) to provide a locality education-catchup programs which hopefully could be a trend setter to other localities in Malaysia. Our Facebook Page and website can be accessed here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Teach-ForRaub/618460154904479?fref=ts & http://teachforraub.weebly.com/

In the current era of globalization as generation is continuously passed on by people, people might not vividly remember how the past used to be like. Kajang is located in the southeast part of Selangor and exist since our ancestor days, it is also a hundred years old town full of stories. Nowadays, traditional wisdom and handmade occupations are slowly replaced by modern techniques. The new generation is also very ambitious to become someone more respected such as a doctor or lawyer. This had caused the skills of traditional watches repairing hardly seen nowadays as the replacement of digital technique and the new generation does not choose it as their profession. All these stories and cultural heritage will be lost after the old generation pass away, therefore it should be collected and recorded through a tangible books, and passed on to future generations for memory, learning and reflective turn in future life, we name this book as “ The Classic Stories of Kajang”.In “The Classic Stories of Kajang: A Publication Project”, elders with traditional handmade occupation, craft art and skills, distinctive life experience and others culture heritage from Kajang area are interviewed and their stories will be recorded, written and edited in a book. These stories always carry a lot of valuable life lessons, knowledge and wisdom that should be preserved and shared to the world.“The Classic Stories of Kajang” is a collection of many stories that presented in words, photos and drawing form. We hope to share it with the public and encourage more people to join us and preserve the cultural heritage of the old Kajang together. "The Classic Stories of Kajang" is a book about all the hard work that the elders had contributed to the country development and collective memory of the past era.

Although, in general, arts is beginning to be accepted within the main streams of the socio-economic structures of society; we feel that, we can be part of that process, in aiding and quickening the spread of its acceptance within society. As such, it is essential to get children to be a part of this blossoming process, for it is in the future of our children’s education, that generations to come, may evolve to eradicate poverty.In fulfilling, Khind’s Starfish Foundation Project’s three pronged criteria of education, poverty eradication, cultural and performing arts; we are immensely thrilled to suggest a remedy that will encapsulate all three of Khind’s Starfish Foundation Projects for Happiness criteria into one act of love, which is, a Children’s Theatre performance, entitled; “The Day I Met the Prince”.In a world of ever growing socio-economic status, there are some fractions of children who are being left out. Therefore, the heart of the play is focused at these groups of individuals, while drawing the attention to this Project for Happiness by Khind, that is; education, poverty eradication, cultural and performing arts.We believe that by utilising the tools of drama in Children’s Theatre, which is essentially, a process of stimulating creativity, challenging perceptions of the world and themselves, and most crucially, it provides an outlet for emotions, thoughts and dreams, we believe that we can, spark the imaginative process of creativity in a child. For when we, nurture creativity, we give birth to imagination, and when imagination blossoms, the fertile process of seeking knowledge is awakened. This in turn, we believe, in time, will move toward a world free from poverty.

Education should be made available to everyone. We are a modest student-led initiative that aims to improve the usage of English amongst Malaysian students from less-fortunate backgrounds. By doing this, we sincerely hope to tackle the education divide between the urban and rural children of Malaysia. We realize the enormity of this task, but we believe that our goals are achievable through the relentless spirit of our committee members and facilitators. An equal chance at a good education opens doors for young people, and we see our movement as a tiny, but sure step in helping solve the wider problem of poverty plaguing our society, Our focus also lies on students from high-performing schools, and this, we believe, is necessary in tackling the problem at both extremes. We welcome all Malaysian university students studying locally or globally to join us. This is the reason why we are committed to organize 2 major programmes, Kalsom Motivational Camp and English Enrichment Programme, which aim to address students from two different extreme ends. For more info, please visit www.projek-kalsom.org.We hope our effort will help to address the social gap in the future, as the task ahead is not an overnight change.

INTI International University Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Club was established in June 2012. The club aims to be able to provide health care to those who are not able to do so due to financial difficulties. In addition, we would like to help provide the knowledge about alternative health care such as TCM.Up to now, charity care is one of the significance components of the club’s mission. In the previous years, the TCM club has constantly collaborated with external charity organizations such as Tzu Chi and Remedic Healthcare Foundation (RHF), to provide basic medical health care for the poor and the destitute as well as teaching them to improve their health. This year, we are going to collaborate with China Medical University (CMU) for the charity treatment events.Our club strongly believes that everyone has the right to receive adequate medical care regardless of their social status and should able to access medical assistance. As a matter of human dignity, everyone is entitled to health care. To that end, healthcare should be considered an essential building block for a healthy community. Sadly to say that through our regular visits to different places, there are still have low-income groups who do not receive adequate healthcare.We often meet frail elderly and bedridden patients who need financial support and help for medical attention. Meanwhile, despite the subsidy from the government, some patients are still not able to afford the escalated medical costs. As a result, these would lead to deterioration of health and quality of life.Health is always above everything else because unhealthy people couldn’t carry out their daily life as usual. It is my belief that through providing medical education as well as treatment to the needy, this allows them to take care of themselves when medical assistance is not available. Hence, we are eager to serve the communities.The venue of this event will be in Bukit Tuan Sheikh, Port Dickson as it is a place that Chinese medical treatments are scarce. According to our survey, the communities in this area are mostly suffering from joint pain syndrome. This situation can be solved by using acupuncture technique. We also found out that there is only one Chinese medicine clinic in Port Dickson area and due to the high medical cost of the clinic most of the patients are unable to afford the treatment fees.We have learned the theory and practical applications of acupuncture. Acupuncture is very efficient in treating people who are experiencing pain such as joint pain, lumbar sprain, knee pain, headache and others. If acupuncture is applied together with the Chinese medicine, it will accelerate the recovery of the patients’ pain syndrome.To ensure long term care this project will be divided into three stages:At the beginning, the team will identify the needs of the community. Approximately 30 patients with joint pains who are unable to afford medical treatment will be selected for the program. Besides providing acupuncture treatment and prescribing medicine on the spot there will be booths set up to explain and teach the public on the methods to differentiate body constitution , as well as train the public to apply acu-point pressing and basic tuina techniques to relieve pain syndromes. Distribution of booklets regarding acu-point pressing and basic tuina techniques to the communities will be done. An information corner will be set up so that more people can get the information.Secondly, at the same time, we will follow-up the condition of the particular selected 30 patients, trace the level of pain after they practiced basic tuina technique. Consequently, a second level of tuina techniques training and Qi-Gong training will be carried out. Besides, we will provide basic knowledge regarding raw Chinese herbs. By teaching them to differentiate variety herbs with the flavor of herbs, they will be able to boil herbs according to their needs in order to improve their health. At this point, China Medical University from Taiwan will be assisting with the project.At the last stage, we will have the last follow-up session on the 30 selected patients. An analysis will be prepared to compare the scale of pain of the patients before and after practicing basic tuina techniques that taught by us. As the last part of this event, a third level of Qi-gong training will be carry out, so that they will be able to cultivate and improve their health condition.In conclusion, we will expand our charity care throughout different places which lack of medical services and poor communities in the future. Besides that, it is also a pathway for them to know more about Traditional Chinese medicine. The charity event should be continued in order to create the awareness of health to the people as the saying goes, health is above the wealth.

Providing our children with nurturing environments is more of a challenge in today's world than it has ever been. Many children do not live in homes with yards and gardens to explore or in neighborhoods where they can spend hours playing outside. Even the children who do live in such places often have so many scheduled activities that they have very little time to spend in their yards and gardens. Many children are spending more of their time inside buildings than outdoors at earlier and earlier ages. When children are in school, unless they participate in outdoor sports, they spend most of their time inside.Kuala Sepetang is a fishing village located in Perak, the town was formerly known as Port Weld. Kuala Sepetang also part of the heritage of mangrove ecosystem. The 40,000-hectare Matang Mangrove Forest was gazetted as a Permanent Forest Reserve in 1906. Today, it is recognized as the best managed sustainable mangrove ecosystem in the world and under care by Perak State Forestry Department.As children today lack of opportunity exploring the nature environment especially the Matang Mangroves forest, so I would like to propose a program “ Beat & Dance in Nature - Exploring Mangrove Forest ”. This program will bring Kuala Sepetang children for the Ecological education in conjunction Performing Arts.\Arts education is an important part of quality education, especially for the Performing Arts, is a combination of physical education and aesthetic education in one, both of which are lacking in our formal educational system. In recent years, a group of artists in the country under the leadership of Director Soon Choon Mee under a project namely "Dan Dan Theatre Production” have organized several "Community Arts Carnival" activities in suburban communities around Selangor. She envisions fostering imaginative, creative and self-confident of our young generation through series of performing arts program; furthermore, her project also aims to build community resources, promote community solidarity, and shape a community rich in arts and humanities values.Performing arts is considered rare in Kuala Sepetang, in order to bring performing arts closer to Sepetang’s, and allow them to enjoy a pleasant atmosphere and content of art performing, we invite a group of passionate artists to share their creativity in this community.Finally, we will invite their parents and villagers to attend the kids performing Show. This is the most important sharing among kids and parents and also the community.