Malaysia is a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society, with settlers from various regions mixing to create its unique cultural form. The early settlers bring about their own cultures and languages, and after centuries of interaction with each other, created a rich historical and cultural heritage unique to every settlement. However, due to many reasons, most of these settling histories were not in record, and as memories of these early settler stories faded away, they will be lost forever. Therefore, there is an urgent need for the documentation of oral histories to preserve our own local and regional histories.Sungai Udang is such an example. It is a century old fishing settlement, in northern Perak, made up of mainly Teochew dialect group, surrounded by Malay kampungs, with connections to other Teochew fishing settlements nearby. It is one fishing settlements along the west coast of Malay Peninsula that still largely preserve its natural form of livelihood from the early settlers. However, due to developments in recent years, especially the decline in fishing industry, things are starting to take a change. Especially with the Mandarin language spread within the Chinese communities nation-wide, its Teochew dialect is also losing ground.Due to the fast changing pace of society in recent decades, we are losing our historical and cultural heritage at an increasing rate. New lifestyles have emerged, creating ever new generations with completely different social experiences. Lifestyles of our early settlers are mostly drowned in the tide of social developments. However, memories of early livelihood and settler stories still remain among the older generations, mostly aged 70 and above, whom were widely recognized as the last generation preserving some of our historical and cultural heritage of our early settlers. Therefore, with the passing of this generation within the next 10-20 years, this heritage will be lost to us forever.“Guardian 1.0·Sungai Udang” project aims to rediscover and document the local history, culture and dialect of Sungai Udang. We hope that this project will create awareness and understanding of the local historical and cultural heritage passed down from our fore-fathers, and appreciate this land that we inherit.

UCSI Facilitation Program is organizing an event titled “Give A Chance” on 25 June 2016.The purpose of this event is to make a difference in the community for the refugees. Therefore, we contacted and visited 6 NGOs refugee education center. The committee board of UCSI Facilitation Program hopes that we can lend a hand to help refugees to have more opportunities in learning our culture and make this event a success. The volunteers will be from the UCSI Facilitation Program members. Estimation of volunteers to assist on the event day will be 60 volunteers including the committees.

Local graduates failed the English competency tests set by the interviewers based on Bernama report. This lack of proficiency in English amongst those entering the workforce will inevitably contribute towards the continuing decline in Malaysia’s international competitiveness and employability. The trend is particularly noticeable in the rural and even the suburban areas where the main bulk of the country’s population resides, and it has become clear that urgent action is needed from all parties to address these language gaps. Exposure, encouragement and motivation to enhance young generation in using English language must start from the early stage as in primary school. This continual attitude using English in everyday communication will give a big impact for students in terms of their English Proficiency in the future.Therefore Communication and Media Club in collaboration with have Faculty of Communication and Media, Universiti Selangor (UNISEL) decided to conduct the English literacy programme entitled “English for All” and in so doing, to play our part in helping to create knowledgeable and confident young Malaysians capable of communicating in English globally. In the initial phase, the programme will be made available to primary school students (Year 4-Year 6) from selected schools (one urban, one rural) in the State of Selangor and Perak, with the long-term vision being to expand the programme to other schools and other States in due course. The maximum number of students who will be involved per session is 40. The implementation of the programme will be the responsibility of a team of resource persons from Faculty of Communication and Media headed by Faculty Dean.

Dialect and folk rhymes are valuable intangible assets because they have inherited the culture, history and characteristics of immigrants from various regions. When they decided to stay in this new place, they have also brought their own language and culture along with them. Malaysia is a multiracial country which promotes multilingual interaction among the society. Therefore, the Chinese society also undergoes dialect variation particularly to multilingual environment in this society.However, the declining of the usage of dialects and lack of documentation about settling history directly affected the society. These intangible assets will be lost when the old settlements are being cleared off by the development of the society. It is necessary for us to take action and make documentation, so that these cultural and historical heritage can be kept in a better condition. A settlement nearby coast of Peninsular will be suitable for this project as the early settlements usually was built nearby the coastTaking Tanjung Piandang as the location of project, it is a fisherman's town nearby Parit Buntar, Perak. The town mainly consist of Teochew, which recorded the history of early Chinese settlements in Malaya. The village also surrounded by different races residence, having connection and interaction between the societies. By carrying out surveys on dialects and interviews on local residents, this project aims to collect folk rhymes, interpret the linguistic connection between local residents and early immigrants, and hence leave a documentation about the cultural heritage of that area.

ENGAGING THE NEXT GENERATION IN PERFORMING ARTSWe strive to provide opportunities for student bodies to attend cultural performing arts performances in the hope of awakening an appreciation for the arts and influencing future behavioral patterns. Thus, ticket discounts and activities of outreach are offered to students and the younger generation in the surrounding community. We believe that through the exposure to performing arts, our local community may grow to appreciate the goodness, the truth, and the beauty.WHY NEXT GENERATION?Performing arts in Malaysia is still in the developing stage. The love for the arts if nurtured at a young age, will eventually produce an arts-loving population. Performing arts is not included in most Malaysian school curriculum.Performing arts can play a bigger role in the younger generation’s journey of intellectual discovery and social awakening. Students who receive arts education have stronger social skills, a driving motivation to learn and a higher self-esteem for themselves than their peers. Education in the arts helps to create a positive school environment for learning and human developmentWHY PERFORMING ARTS?THE VALUE OF PERFORMING ARTS IN THE COMMUNITY• Arts improves the quality of life, and it is also a source of the community’s pride. The economic, educational and civic benefits of the arts are made available to young people by broadeningtheir access to the arts and reducing the barriers of cultural participation; • It promotes the understanding of others and their different ways of life;  • It preserves cultural heritage as the legacy for future generations; • It provides opportunities to socialise, builds bridges across generations, cultures, and geographic, supports the younger generation’s activities and involves the people of the community.Above all, we believe that arts contribute to the education and development of young people. Many businesses see a possible commercial advantage in the marketing of their brands, products or services being associated with the arts sector.

Co&Coal is aspires to improve the standard of living and quality of life of the underprivileged people in northern region of Malaysia by using by properly disposing coconut shell waste. ENACTUS UUM aims to educate the public on the environmental degradation of coconut shells as well. Coconut is the main ingredient in this project and it has high utilization value. However, most of the coconut shell waste is simple discarded without proper management. Through this project, we are turning the coconut shell waste into marketable product and subsequently reduce the environmental issues. We are also tackling various environmental issues while fostering entrepreneurs with this sustainable “Go-green” concept. Currently, we have two target audiences who works as housewives, and we are empowering them with the necessary skill and knowledge on how to transform the coconut shells waste into high quality charcoal with simple Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) that is designed by us. Currently, Co&coal is working with Riverside in Lembah Bujang area and aim to increase the awareness of the project as well as increase participants in production of the project.

Who we are?Freelance Beautician Student, Degree Student & Volunteers To Help Single Mothers From Universiti Teknology MARA JohorWhat is the project to help single mother?Certification of Home based Cosmetology Specialist (HOBCOS) ProjectThe emotional life of the single mother was also affected by their single status. Majority of the single mother reported that they felt lonely, helpless, hopeless, lack of identity and lack of confidence. (Marian 2015)In social sphere majority of single mothers tried to avoid attending social gatherings and had changed their dressing style due to depression they had develop poor food and eating habits. (suzana.lR 2015)Emotional Problems Faced by Single Mothers Single mothers tend to suffer from a feeling of rootlessness and lack of identity after divorce/ widowhood.(Wong, 2013)Financial Problems Faced by Single Mothers Financial crises is a standing situation with most of the single parent families. It becomes difficult in meeting the basic needs of children such as food , clothing, school fees , maintaining the previous standard of living and meet personal expense.

Based on the survey, the elderly in need of rehabilitation is frequently unmotivated and reluctant to participate in mobility exercises. The development of this carpet is to provide a pleasant and appealing training platform for the elderly who are unable to perform mobility activities. With the implementation of this carpet in the community center, it will provide entertainment for the elderly while making them motivated to do mobility exercises.Firstly, the carpet with the purpose of making rehabilitation more fun and attractive with a ‘game-based’ approach is developed. Next is to gather feedback/opinions from older people on their opinion on the design and use of this mat. Based on this information, we will improve and finalize the design of this exercise mat. Finally, we will provide this carpet to 2 community centers for 24 elderly to use.In the short term, it will motivate the elderly to do mobility activities as a form of entertainment, and in the long term, this carpet will be further implemented in other community centers for more elderly to use for rehabilitation purposes. 

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.