Kampung Sugud, Penampang shown in Figure 1 & 2 is one of the places that is often affected by floods. Last year, one of the biggest floods in Sabah swept Sugud on September 15, 2021 as shown in Figure 7. Based on Figure 2, without taking any waste into account, it is very crucial to have a river with good water flow to prevent flooding because the only road that leads to the main road is at the lowest level and the surrounding terrains are hills.There are two types of flood. The first type of flood is when the grading of the area is not designed as so to allow water to flow towards the river or drainage that when it rains, the water will not be able to flow naturally towards the drainage or in this case the river. When this happens, the water will pool up and seep into the soil and cause the underground water table to rise and cause flood. This is not the type of flood we are trying to solve but the next one is where the area has good gradation so that water can flow towards the river and exit the area thus preventing water to pool up. But in Sugud, it will flood when it starts to rain heavily where all the small to intermediate wastes starts to accumulate at the bridges ie the two points my team and I had found in the village. One way to solve this problem is by enlarging the river width and depth so that the wastes will not accumulate. But by doing so will need to reconstruct the bridge which will take a lot more costs. Our way of solving this problem is by providing the villagers a way to deal with the branches and wastes when it rains and starts to clog and slow down the water flow which will cause the water to start to rise and cause the underground water to rise as well thus causing flood. The said solution to the problem is by designing and constructing a waste entrapment made out of steel so that it acts as an interceptor during rainy weather and is able to be operated with simple pulley mechanism by the person in charge on the said rainy day as shown below in Table 1 in the Sustainability section.To combat this issue, our group has come up with a project that is able to reduce the rate of floods occurring in Kampung Sugud as shown in Figure 8. Figure 1: Kg Sugud areaFigure 2: Terrain overviewFigure 3: Station 1 locationFigure 4: Station 1 siteFigure 5: Station 2 locationFigure 6: Station 2 siteFigure 7: Last year’s flood at Sugud AreaFigure 8 : Sketch of the design 

In Malaysia, the awareness of dyslexia is not up to par as autism awareness. Most parents are not aware of the basic signs or symptoms that their children may show. This problem, if not curbed from the beginning, will destroy the future education of dyslexic. The process of identifying dyslexia is important so that early intervention can be carried out to help dyslexic students. The formal diagnostic process of dyslexia through medical centers and hospitals will take between 6 months to 1 year. This process involves many tests, evaluations and so on to be sure of the existence of learning problems in children. This long process can be aided with the use of the Dyslexia Symptom Intervention Screening (SISD) instrument by parents and teachers. In context of this project, we aim to spread awareness among the Sri Serdang community of Selangor. This is due to the increase of remedial and special education classes in government schools in this area. Also, a similar project called "Dyslexia Symptoms Identification Programme" was conducted in 2020 and through the programmes, we have observed that most teachers who are also parents have a weak understanding on dyslexia and how they can help their children. A total of 130 participants attended the programme at Universiti Putra Malaysia. The programme was organized in collaboration with Malaysia Dyslexia Association and Selangor State Education Department (Jabatan Pendidikan Negeri Selangor). In this dyslexia awareness program, the Dyslexia Symptom Intervention Screening (SISD) in the form of a book "Buku Panduan Simptom Disleksia" published by UPM Press will be shared to all participants who attend. This instrument has been validated in a total of 39 schools in the Sepang district and successfully identified 5 dyslexic students. The instrument was shared to the Institute of Teacher Education, namely the Malay Language Campus, Kedah Darul Aman Campus and Raja Melewar Campus with a total of 594 student teachers participating. Not only that, this SISD has also been shared in the Dyslexia Knowledge Transformation Program involving 156  national schools throughout Selangor.

Cancer is one of the world's most serious health issues. According to the Global Burden of Disease, cancer claimed the lives of 9.56 million people in 2017. Cancer is responsible for one out of every six deaths worldwide. Since cancer is one of the leading causes of death, making strides against it is one of the world's most important issues. Millions of efforts have been done worldwide to search for the cure and prevention strategies in order to improve the quality of life.   International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) Kuantan, is one of the education organizations in the east coast, thus the role to transfer the scientific knowledge into layman terms should be highlighted including cancer related issues. For this project, the focus is on female-related cancers which is breast cancer. Breast cancer is ranked the first or the highest case in Kuantan, Pahang. Based on the study done by Radiah et al., in 2020 (unpublished data), the knowledge and awareness on cancer is low among the community in Kuantan, Pahang generally. Thus, among the aspects that are proposed to be highlighted are:  awareness on early signs and symptoms, cancer and genetics, healthy lifestyle education especially from dietary intake and exercise perspective,  sharing sessions with breast cancer survivor from Kuantan, Pahang. It is hoped that there will be a good level of knowledge and awareness possession by the targeted population about the prevention and the importance of early detection of breast cancer at the end of this project. As for long term goal, this project will results in promoting further initiatives to strengthen the awareness and right guidance to breast cancer patients, and high risk population.Besides being involved in education and awareness campaigns in this selected community, students also have an opportunity to engage with cancer survivors in this town as partners. By conducting this project, the challenge and difficulties will be experienced so this will enhance their motivation and understanding on the importance of sustainable research in cancer in order to benefit the society – from bench to community

This is a little bit of the Jahai community background. The Sungai Rual Orang Asli Village is located about 22 kilometers from the Jeli Town. It was established around 1972 with 7 chiefs (Tok Batin). Nowadays there are only 4 chiefs (Tok Batin). The area of the village is about 659 hectares. The Orang Asli are from the Jahai community and there are 516 people of 108 families stay in this village. The majority of Orang Asli in this village are muslims. The main occupations of the villagers are in the palm oil and rubber plantation. The development of the Village comes under the supervision of Department of the Orang Asli Affairs.From the Books of Tribal Communities in the Malay World by “Geoffrey Benjamin & Cynthia Chou” (2003) shows that there is society’s ancient perception towards Orang Asli. Malaysia is multi-racial country, this problem should not happen in order to meet with the Malaysia’s objective who value and practice unity. The problem is important because it affect Orang Asli Jahai interest and this has implications for the genuine livelihoods progress of Orang Asli Jahai community.  We choose to change the ancient perceptions towards 60 Orang Asli Jahai community in Sungai Rual, Jeli to strenghthening unity among 90 participants from University Malaysia Kelantan Kampus Kota, University Malaysia Kelantan Kampus Jeli and Sekolah Kebangsaan Pengkalan Chepa Kota Bharu. We aims to benefit Orang Asli Jahai community by providing them an opportunity to promote their culture and talents based on our project activities such as “Night story with traditional dancing” and more. This will lead Orang Asli Jahai community to be known among other communities by perform their traditional dancing. Additionally, we familiar that Orang Asli Jahai is creative in weaving so we provide entrepreneur innovation knowledge to benefit Orang Asli Jahai community about entrepreneur small business in collaboration with UMK EI and Jabatan Kemajuan Orang Asli (JAKOA)  to market Orang Asli Jahai products. We will also help in terms of creating a page related to Orang Asli Jahai in collaboration with University Malaysia Kelantan (UMK), American Corner Kelantan PPI UMK and Jabatan Kemajuan Orang Asli (JAKOA) to provide more exposure regarding Orang Asli.It is important for My Starfish Foundation and the public to support this project in terms of below :Cultural Conservation : Change the perception of other communities towards Orang Asli Jahai by providing exposure to Orang Asli Jahai culture such as play in group of community combination, traditional games, traditional dances and how Orang Asli’s in reality. By promoting unity and understanding among different communities, we can work towards eliminating stereotypes and prejudices. Economic Growth : Enable Orang Asli Jahai community about the potential of being an entrepreneur with innovation entrepreneur knowledge. This can lead to increase revenue, job opportunities and improved living standard for the community.  Community Engagement : Supporting this project will encourages community engagement and collaboration. All the participants can enhance the unity towards Orang Asli Jahai. It can also being able to avoid negative implications for the genuine livelihoods progress of the Orang Asli Jahai community. Knowledge Sharing : Innovation entrepreneur talk for new knowledge of innovation entrepreneur. Using whatever types of products that can have innovations element. This can empower their skills and insights that can lead to sustainable economic development.    Overall, public support for this project can have a significant positive impact on the Orang Asli Jahai community such like their economy, sociality, their livelihoods progress and this will fulfill Malaysia’s objective which is create unity between all types of races by foster inclusivity, empower the orang asli Jahai community, and build more harmonious society. 

SK Dato’ Harun 1 is a school situated in Petaling Jaya. Learners who attend the school are mostly urban poor learners, orphans, and also from the M40s in general. These learners have low confidence, lack English proficiency and communication skills. Based on our interview with their teacher, Ustaz Faizul Razali, they struggle to share their opinions and thoughts due to their surroundings that do not provide them a safe space to speak English. They feel unmotivated and shy to speak when among their friends who are more eloquent. Due to these issues, they function a few levels below their peers when asked to engage in English. Thus, Dr Adelina, our head of project, has created PEARL, a project that aims to help these learners improve their second language acquisition, self confidence, and love for language by providing a safe space for them to acquire the language skills. The volunteers for the project are three B Ed TESL students of Universiti Malaya who are pedagogically trained in teaching and assisting second language learners. Nearby, is a mosque with a nazir who is interested in assisting with the education of these children. The mosque is Masjid Jumhuriyah, Petaling Jaya. The mosque provided a comfortable hall to conduct all the lessons. Learners explore the art of the English language through readers’ theatre, puppetry, games, plays, storytelling and many more. Nevertheless, post-pandemic, the volunteers realised that there is a need to add to the skills that were lacking among these urban poor learners. They were financially illiterate and surrounded by adults who are equally financially illiterate as well. They lack an understanding of many financial aspects. This comprises elements such as saving, investing, budget planning, and many more. They are not able to tell the difference between needs and wants, spending and saving, and investment and wastage. Furthermore, these poor learners are also raised in households which do not emphasise the importance of spending money wisely. For instance, we discovered that the parents of these children often use their money on unnecessary things which they can barely afford. When given an imaginary budget for the learners to make choices on things they would spend on, our team found  that they would rather spend their money on things that they do not need. This further emphasised the importance of teaching financial literacy skills to young learners. This is a concern as in general more cases on youth bankruptcy have been recorded in Malaysia over the past years. Auction-a-Pearl is an extension of the Pearl4PJ Project (MBPJ, 2021) focusing on communicative English through play, drama, poetry etc and Pearly Starfish (My Starfish Foundation, 2022), focusing on English language acquisition through digital literacy.  Auction-a-Pearl aims to help these learners understand their learning needs by exposing them to financial literacy whilst using communicative English. We believe that by helping the learners pragmatically engage with topics related to financial literacy, we are able to provide quality education to the learners while enhancing their knowledge of the English language. As delivery will be through English and using ICT, financial literacy could be potentially developed among the urban poor learners in a 21st Century setting.   

In Sabah there is still a lot of area that has yet to have access to electricity especially roadside in rural areas. The risk of accident occurrence in such dark areas may be lessen if the roadside hazard visibility is increased by supplying an enough amount of road lighting. Providing rural communities with this solar eco light not only helps them but also we can reusing plastic water bottles and gives it a new life rather than going into the trash or being sent off to be recycled. 

This project will be carried out in Royal Belum Perak, specifically in Orang Asli settlements, Kampung Kelewang. There is no access to safe drinking water in Kampung Kelewang. Orang Asli in Kampung Kelewang are very primitive where they will relocate from one place to another when the food supply runs out. This has caused difficulties on Department of Orang Asli Development (JAKOA) in conducting a census on the Orang Asli population.For the past two years, JAKOA has to take a boat every day and repeatedly to the waterfall for the Orang Asli to consume clean water. This consumed significant amount of time, effort, and money (boat engine oil). Hence, for this project, we are going to conduct water analysis as there is no data on the water quality index (WQI) in Sungai Kelewang. After we have identify the water quality index, we will going to construct Mini Surface Water Treatment Plant using Slow Sand Filter (SSF) and educate Orang Asli community in Kampung Kelewang on how to conduct the backwash step by themselves.Construction of Mini Surface Water Treatment Plant using Slow Sand Filter (SSF) is showed in Figure 1 below:Figure 1 : Schematic diagram SSF water treatment system 

SK Dato’ Harun 1 in Petaling Jaya serves primarily urban poor, orphaned, and B40 students who face challenges in English proficiency, confidence, and communication. PEARL, an initiative led by Dr. Adelina with TESL-trained volunteers from Universiti Malaya, supports these students by creating a safe space for English learning through interactive activities such as theatre, puppetry, and storytelling. Classes take place in the comfortable hall of Masjid Jumhuriyah, facilitated by the mosque's Nazir.Post-pandemic, volunteers recognized the need for students to improve science literacy in English due to curriculum changes, as they were accustomed to learning science in Bahasa Melayu. To address this, Pearl and Beyond was created, expanding on past projects like Pearl4PJ, Pearly Starfish, and Auction-a-Pearl. This program aims to boost both science literacy and English proficiency through project-based learning and ICT, preparing students for future academic challenges in science and tertiary education. 

Malaysia generates almost 38,000 metric tons of solid waste per day and 45 percent of it is food waste. This is the issue that need to be focus on for a better solution. Based on statistic from Sabah Government show that the cost of waste management at Kundasang, Ranau is RM 68,349.02 per month that include food waste. Imagine that we can convert food waste by producing compose fertilizer, we can reduce the cost and  pollution. As we know that method of disposal at Ranau is open dumping that can cause pollution.The Food Waste Revolution seeks to promote a circular economy approach, where waste is minimized, resources are conserved, and materials are continually reused, recycled, or repurposed.The project takes inspiration from the concept of technopreneurship, which combines technology and entrepreneurship to create innovative and sustainable solutions. It recognizes that technological advancements, coupled with entrepreneurial thinking, can drive transformative changes in waste management, resource utilization, and the overall sustainability landscape. By using a discarded container, food waste will be thrown into the container. Then, the compost material is mixed for several months and the food waste will decompose into organic fertilizer that can be used for agricultural activities. This can reduce the cost of purchasing fertilizers, avoid the use of synthetic fertilizers and increase agricultural activities with quality production and low cost.As we know that convert food waste into compose fertilizer have been widely known at peninsular Malaysia rather that at Sabah & Sarawak especially in Kundasang, Sabah. The community at Kundasang did not aware about this method and this is one of the opportunity to them gain new knowledge.