Share Happiness with handicraft
Arts & Culture
So many people lament the coldness of modern society. People could care less what happens. People that care less are from young children such as primary school children till universities student even for those who graduated and started their career. Therefore, we need to solve this issue by reducing coldness of modern society, we can educate the young’s so that they are capable and creatives to create a handicraft that can express their thoughts and love. The handicraft is a token of our regard. This handicraft skill should be educated and cultivated when one is young. This handicraft skill can be learned through face-to-face or online platform, we can better understand the need to learn and to show our love because the community need our love to warm it. This project is a special event which provide a platform to share, train participant’s creativity and critical thinking, by use the material or sources nearby that available to make a handicraft. The handicraft can gift as a present to someone who is special or mean to you. The receiver can be a stranger, your roommate, friends, course mates, partner, family member, teacher or lecturer. In this indifferent society, we need a little surprise or gift to share with the important people or the person we care so that they can know and feel that they are mean to us. We are less creatives, we only show our care and love by buying present which are expensive. Back to basic, we can make special and grand handicraft to utilize our creativity and gift this handicraft to show our love to others.The participants can learn new origami (instructor is demo and guide the origami folding process), simultaneously participants can practice and follow the techniques on how to fold handicraft such as roses, heart, boxes and small decorations such as stars and . In addition, this workshop provided small accessories to participants to enhance, add on and decorate their handicraft. All handicraft created are exhibit to all participants to review each participant’s ideas and photos is taken as memories and as future reference and exhibition. The photos and output will save as exhibition and open to public. The participants can reduce stress by enjoy doing handicraft. Handicraft is one of the best methods to show and share our loves and cares to people nearby and this action can cheer people that feel down or not in good mood. We students have a lot of wastepaper such as used A4 paper. We may do handicraft creatively with the recycle paper and decorate it with poster colors or spray color. We also can directly use color paper and manila cards to proceed and fold the handicraft. Small decoration such as cuddly toy or snacks can be added to increase the handicraft’s value.
Overview of Issue / Background
So many people lament the coldness of modern society. People could care less what happens. People that care less are from young children such as primary school children till universities student even for those who graduated and started their career.
Therefore, we need to solve this issue by reducing coldness of modern society, we can educate the young’s so that they are capable and creatives to create a handicraft that can express their thoughts and love. The handicraft is a token of our regard. This handicraft skill should be educated and cultivated when one is young. This handicraft skill can be learned through face-to-face or online platform, we can better understand the need to learn and to show our love because the community need our love to warm it.
This project is a special event which provide a platform to share, train participant’s creativity and critical thinking, by use the material or sources nearby that available to make a handicraft.
The handicraft can gift as a present to someone who is special or mean to you. The receiver can be a stranger, your roommate, friends, course mates, partner, family member, teacher or lecturer.
In this indifferent society, we need a little surprise or gift to share with the important people or the person we care so that they can know and feel that they are mean to us. We are less creatives, we only show our care and love by buying present which are expensive. Back to basic, we can make special and grand handicraft to utilize our creativity and gift this handicraft to show our love to others.
The participants can learn new origami (instructor is demo and guide the origami folding process), simultaneously participants can practice and follow the techniques on how to fold handicraft such as roses, heart, boxes and small decorations such as stars and . In addition, this workshop provided small accessories to participants to enhance, add on and decorate their handicraft. All handicraft created are exhibit to all participants to review each participant’s ideas and photos is taken as memories and as future reference and exhibition. The photos and output will save as exhibition and open to public.
The participants can reduce stress by enjoy doing handicraft. Handicraft is one of the best methods to show and share our loves and cares to people nearby and this action can cheer people that feel down or not in good mood.
We students have a lot of wastepaper such as used A4 paper. We may do handicraft creatively with the recycle paper and decorate it with poster colors or spray color. We also can directly use color paper and manila cards to proceed and fold the handicraft. Small decoration such as cuddly toy or snacks can be added to increase the handicraft’s value.
Project Objectives (Vision & Mission)
- To provide a space for participant to enhance their creativeness and create handicraft for special ones.
- To engage a warm communication between one another
- To educate the value of share loves and cares to people nearby especially to university.
- To emphasize and educate love can be show by gifting a handicraft to people nearby.
Project Details (Activities and Tasks)
There are 3 targeted groups; special children, primary school children, and UTHM students.
First, we will go to “Kiwanis Special Children Centre” in Batu Pahat and teach the special children to do simple handicraft. The motif to share this handicraft tutorial class with special children is to wish they have explored to a new method to express their feelings and words simultaneously learn new art. A slow and details origami guidance will be given to all special children (participants). Origami and Handicraft is a simple way to express Love to others.
Second, we will conduct online workshop for primary school students. We will prepare 10 to 20 origami tutorial guidance videos and upload to YouTube. Our team will contact to primary school headmaster or primary school office and share this YouTube link to them. A small competition is held to encourage primary school students to learn origami online themselves, every primary school student who are interested can prepare their best origami themselves in their own house and take a photo of their handicraft. The photo should have front view, side view and top view. The photo is then uploaded by management team in Enactus Club Facebook Pages. The winner is chosen by Facebook ‘Like’. The origami is voluntary and depends on primary school student’s creativity!
Third, we will host face to face handicraft workshop special for UTHM students. A class with 15 to 20 participants which facilitate by instructors (UTHM’s students) for each session. About 4 sessions of similar handicraft workshop is given.
The content of each session is as follow: Each session is run with similar flow to share a few simple of folding process in making a handicraft. Participants are given materials to follow the folding process. The instructor will demonstrate the origami and special guidance will be given to participants when needed.
After completed the origami teaching session, the other video link (YouTube) of complicated origami will be share to all participants. At this stage, all materials are prepared by facilitate / instructor and UTHM participants are freely to choose the material to prepare, flow and create their own handicraft.
The participants are given two hours to fold, process and complete their handicraft opus. Instructors will give suggestion or helping hand whenever needed, neither share ideas or giving special guidance.
At the end of the workshop, all finished handicraft will be exhibit among participants. Everyone in the workshop is given a vote to choose the handicraft they like the most. All handicraft will be capture for future reference and each handicraft return to owner (participant) and a card is given to each participant to write warm words, so that they can gift this handicraft to their special one.
Expected Project Result & Outcomes
- Special children learned a new method to express their feelings because most special children have less ability to speak and express the words from their heart. Special children are being neglected and have less chance to get education even if handwork. With this project “Share Happiness with handicraft” may be a good chance to unlock their potential.
- Primary school and university students learned a new skill (handicraft) and discovered on how to color paper or reuse the recycle papers to make handicraft. Especially students with low budget may discovery a new method to express their feeling of love, to appreciate or to apologize whenever needed.
- Participant creativeness enhanced especially primary school students then university students. This is because the participants learn handicraft and multiple creatives idea was shared through online or in workshop. This “Share happiness with Handicraft” is a platform that provided for participants to share and exchange their creative ideas.
- The outcomes from this “Share happiness with Handicraft” is the level of awareness about the importance to speak out our love in this indifferent society and to promote on handicraft is easy to make and convenience ideas and method for all age to show love to others.
- The participants handicraft outcomes exhibit to other participants and public. The creative ideas exchanged in exhibition, a better or more creatives handicraft can be produced next time!
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Project Information
| University name | : | Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) |
| Project leader name | : | Cheam Kai Wen |
Section I
1. Total number of primary school students: 2,160 students
Three (3) primary schools (720 students x 3 schools = 2,160 students). 10 students participated in an online origami competition.
2. The total number of UTHM students:
100 students who stayed in Tun Fatimah Residential College.
3. Others:
16 origami videos uploaded to YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram of Enactus UTHM.
i. YouTube: 3 subscribers, 18 likes, 174 views, 508 reaches.
ii. Facebook: 1,089 followers, 77 likes, 8,091 people reached for all videos.
iii. Instagram: 227 followers, 153 likes, 19 comments, and 1,869 views for all videos.
The main beneficiaries of this project are the students from primary schools and UTHM students.
LIMITATION
- Project Student sent color papers and formal letters to three (3) primary schools nearby UTHM, Parit Raja (see Appendix 1 to Appendix 4). Due to the Covid-19 outbreak in Malaysia, the Government of Malaysia has taken significant precautions to prevent virus transmission. This includes the enforcement of the Movement Control Order (MCO) that restricted our movement to conduct the project on the groundwork. From here, we encountered the first hurdle where we were restricted from visiting the schools due to the implementation of the Standard of Procedure (SOP). We sent a formal invitation letter to all the art teachers of each primary school to invite them to teach origami in class and participate in our online origami competition (see Appendix 6 to Appendix 7). (8 November 2020) Senior Minister of Education announced that all primary and secondary schools were closed from 9 November 2020 until further notice. Therefore, art teachers from the primary schools did not have enough time to teach origami physically using color papers.
- Parit Raja is a rural area in Johor. When we visited one of the primary schools in the area, the headmaster told us not to expect high participation and commitment from the students as the students were not committing to the online class organized by the school itself. It was because most of the students did not have the required smart gadgets, WiFi, and cellular data at home. They relied more on their parents for internet hotspots so that they could access the Internet. Yet, they faced difficulty in this case as the parents had to work during day time. Therefore, our team came up with a plan B whereby our members would be promoting this project to their alma mater of primary school.
- Parit Raja is a rural area in Johor. When we visited one of the primary schools in the area, the headmaster told us not to expect high participation and commitment from the students as the students were not committing to the online class organized by the school itself. It was because most of the students did not have the required smart gadgets, WiFi, and cellular data at home. They relied more on their parents for internet hotspots so that they could access the Internet. Yet, they faced difficulty in this case as the parents had to work during day time. Therefore, our team came up with a plan B whereby our members would be promoting this project to their alma mater of primary school.
- 7 November 2020, the fund was transferred from the Khind Starfish Foundation to the UTHM bank account. We had done our paperwork to redeem the fund (see Appendix 5). However, the Student Affairs Office informed us that the fund could only be utilized for purchase purposes by their department, implying that no cash withdrawal would be allowed.
- 13 November 2020, I was forwarded to Puan Maryam Binti Husni (Student Affairs Office’ staff) and she suggested me to do purchasing once the paperwork was approved. On the same day, she managed to direct me to an agent, Monstera Party House owned by Mrs. Alisa Muhamad on 22 November 2020 and Aura Elegant Enterprise owned by Mrs. Nor Yatimah Binti Ahmad on 23 November 2020 to purchase a list of materials. Unfortunately, they informed me that it would take some time to process the sudden order due to the Johor Lockdown and slow logistics. Thus, materials were received late from Monstera Party House (28 November 2020) (see Appendix 13). The materials from Aura Elegant Enterprise (18 December 2020) (see Appendix 14) were received late as there was a positive case from Aura Elegant Enterprise's office, hence they needed to do the quarantine themselves.
- Therefore, we only managed to do a small-scale's workshop demo and taught them to do a chocolate boutique with origami due to the restrictions of SOP.
- Student Affairs Office deducted a percentage of 10% (RM250).
- Student Affairs Office staff (Puan Umi Nadzirah Binti Ab.majid) allocated RM500 in case.
- The implementation date for the project ‘Share Happiness with Handicraft' was from 1 November 2020 to 2 January 2021.
- Therefore, Project Student had to pay RM559.95 back to Khind Starfish Foundation (RM59.95 + RM500).
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