1. Project Goals: 

- To educate cancer patients and survivors, caretakers and the community on cancer.

- To spread awareness of cancer in society.

- To instill the leadership and volunteerism of the committee, especially the students. 

2. Fund-raising support & Other external sponsorship:

• Managed to get crowdfunding target with the help from families (parents, relatives),  friends, lecturers. 

1. Project Implementation:
2. Project Flow Summary: 

• The meeting between the committees from IIUM Kuantan and Felda Bukit Sagu have been held to discuss our objectives and activities to be conducted at Felda Bukit Sagu
• Our first visit at Felda Bukit Sagu was on 4 June 2022. 
• Due to the GE15, we decided to change the project venue and targeted participants. 

• The new meeting has been set up with Pertubuhan Pesakit Kanser Negeri Pahang/ Cancer Support Pahang (CSP)
• The new activity has been discussed 
• The new activities has been conducted (talk and sharing session,flyers distribution)

2. Difficulties

• Date and venue changes  as GE15 happened in November which caused us to change all our initial plans. The reason why we decided to change is because the community of Felda Bukit Sagu cannot commit to this project between October until December 2022. The community there was busy preparing for the election. 
• the time constraints among the committee as the students also have to properly manage their time between the academic and this community service. Half of the students are involved in their FYP thus it is quite challenging
• The numbers of the committee are a bit too small. The workload of one committee is quite a burden as they may have 2-3 tasks to be done throughout the projects. 
• Most of our discussions were conducted via online platforms. The effectiveness of communication is  not really satisfying.  

3. Language or cultural barriers

• there is no problem on language and cultural barriers

4. Project Implementation Process

• Few meeting have been conducted 
• Purchased item needed
• Venue booking
• Shortlisted the list of houses that can be visited. 
• The printing of flyers and survey

How does or will your project contribute to happiness? Short-term? Long-term?

Short term

• Our project has made the participants feel their existence is being appreciated even though the disease may make them feel anxious and scared of living. 
•  The participants shared their experience of having cancer and taking care of cancer patients, thus can ease the burden that they have.
• For the students, especially for the medical students, this project has given us the real life scenario of the health aspect. It encourage us to always contribute to the community by helping them with our skill and knowledge in medical sciences

Long term

• The knowledge that the participants and committee gain throughout this project can be beneficial for them in order to spread awareness and prevent cancer. 
• The participants will always have the thought that life must go on even if you are having cancer or other diseases. 
• The collaboration of the committee and other parties can improve the communication and social skills of the students.

Has your project changed the way you think about the world? How has it changed you?
 

1. Always being grateful in our life as different people have different challenges in life. As I carried out this project, we should be grateful for our life, especially our health conditions because once our health is not in good condition, our quality of life would be the same anymore. 
2. Be kind to others as it is a noble characteristics that can be practised by our community 
3. Have empathy towards others. I looked at the patients, survivors and caretakers’ struggle in continuing their lives despite the circumstances that they faced and realised that our society should help each other to ease their burden.