a. A two-sentence summary of the project goals.

The project goal was to create awareness among the participants on the food waste created from our daily eating habit, instead of labelling it as waste one can turn it into something useful such as compost. Indirectly the participants will help to promote the habit of reusing the food waste to their family members and to those around them thus help to promote the ideas which will lead to effective reduction of food waste in long term run.

b. Did other fund-raising efforts contribute to your projects? What were they?

Yes. Our internal fund-raising help to raise our transportation fees for our members to travel to the project site to help out in the project. Other than that, a small amount of fund raised were used to buy some of the materials needed for the projects.

c. Provide details about how your project actually worked.

1. Were there unanticipated difficulties? Budget constraints?

 Yes. There are unanticipated difficulties faced during the project running. All of our members involved in the project were tied up with a sudden change of time table in our university which cause a delay in the project schedule. Due to this most of the outdoor activities have to be pushed back which unfortunately the reschedule timing met with the yearly monsoon season at project site. Thus, those activities have to be pushed further back down the project milestones. As per time of the submission of this report, our members involve are still either doing their internship across the globe or have started their final year project course to meet their studies timeline.

2. Language or cultural barriers?

We do not face any language difficulty though we have international student as member and more Chinese spoken participants, as our members are consisting of multiracial members which we help to translate to each other when needed.

3. What worked well? What didn’t work well?

Everything works well so far. Participants and school authority have been great as they have given a full cooperation throughout the project. The planting done after the sudden heavy down pour of rain, which is also a blessing in disguise, makes the germination and growing easier for the plants. Due to the earlier down pour, we were exposed to the weakness of our design earlier which allow us to remodify and rectify the system weaknesses.

What didn’t work well for us are the pre-plan timing change, as it has been hindered by the sudden changes of our university time table which nobody foresees it. Due to this, we have to make up for the lost time and have to work around the environment factors that affect the process.

4. How many people benefited or will benefit from your project? Who are these people?

One or more communities. Communities that are surrounding the project site. Words travel by mouth is much more effective than advertisement thus by educating and exposing the students and teachers of the school to the idea of composting using the food waste, they will share this experience and exposure to their family members as well as their friends also which indirectly helping this project to promote its benefits to the whole communities surrounding it. Furthermore, during any events that the school held, the project site which is part of the school landscape, will stood out and will raise enquiries among the visitors to the school which indirectly promote the ideas of the project to others.

5. What is the long-term impact and sustainability of this project? Is there a future for your project?

Long term wise, the project will raise awareness of the amount of food waste created by their daily habits and how can the household reduce or reuse it for better benefit for everyone. Slowly when these become a habit of the communities, the municipal will see a drop of amount in organic waste generated from this part of the town. Furthermore, household that involve in using food waste to create compost also have the opportunities to turn this into an income generation work from home entrepreneurship. Any one that are practising this idea are practicing responsible consumption which is goal number 12 of Sustainable Development Goal set by the United Nation. AQSA have been approached by multiple schools to start or share the project so that the respective school’s teachers can use it as teaching tools. 

1. In several paragraphs, address each of the following questions:

• How does or will your project contribute to happiness? Short-term? Long-term?
• Has your project changed the way you think about the world? How has it changed you?

Reduction of waste and reuse of waste to generate extra income without much effort and cost involve will bring happiness to those who take this idea in short term. By educating the younger generation and trying to implement as their daily habit will benefit the environment that they are living at as well as the local government as they will spend less money and time in treating the waste in longer term. Reduction of waste also indicate reduction of pollution related to treatment process of the waste thus benefit the environment in preservation. Better and greener environment will bring happiness to those living in it with definite. Reduction of waste also mean reduction of landfill or land needed to process the waste, thus we will have more land for other purposes such as housing, recreational purposes which will bring happiness to everyone.

This project has thought me that we should relook into our waste, instead of recycling only, we should look into how to reduce or reuse the waste for better benefit. Recycling is not always the best solution to all waste generated. To address the forever increment of waste not only locally but also globally one need to look into how to reduce or reuse instead. Many wastes can be used to generate side income or as an alternated energy generation. Currently many countries has adopted the ideas of using the waste to generate alternate energy for the consumption of the countries, in which not only they found a solution to reduce their wastes, they also found a cheaper way to provide more energy for the usage of the country.

2. Complete this section with a one to two sentence personal statement, suitable for use as a quotation, addressing how and why this project was valuable and what was the most important thing you learned as a result. (Indicate student’s name for quote attribution.)

Gan Wei Jia (三年级)：学习不可浪费食物.

Ong Jia Hong (四年级)：很有趣，原来小白菜小时候是这个样子.

Nicholas Tee (五年级)：之前科学有学过，这是第一次自己参与活动.

Ascar Tee (五年级)：原来废弃的食材还是有其它功能.

Tee Ciyee (六年级)：环保真的很重要。一人付出一些，环境就会更美好.

2. Photograph

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3. Video

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