Education is also one of the National Key Results Areas (NKRA), which was launched in 2009. With regard to the NKRA, the Malaysian government targeted that by 2012, all students would acquire the basic reading and writing skills after three years of schooling. By 2015, the Malaysian Government is targeting all children in this country to have at least primary education.

The Orang Asli children are not to be left behind in the focus of national educational development. Enormous efforts have been made since independence in 1957 up to now which aimed to improve the standard of formal education to those who live largely in rural areas.

We want to collaborate with Malaysia Outreach Volunteer Experience (MOVE). The is a non-profit organization that aims to empower young people to get involved in volunteerism and humanitarian; also to achieve, namely to strengthen the domestic economy by supporting the vulnerable groups in the B40 (Low Income) community.

There are 3 pillars of MOVE:

           1. Knowledge & Awareness

           2. Attitude & Behaviour

           3. Opportunity & Skills Development

This is to align to the national aspiration to commit the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

“Competitiveness, productivity, innovativeness and capability in management of new technologies in Malaysia will be determined by the quality of its human resources. […] In view of the challenges ahead, Malaysians should be well equipped with a strong base in education and training. (Government of Malaysia, 2012)”

One of MOVE segmentation program is MOVE Edu; for the first time MOVE work together with Human Resource Development Fund (HRDF) to provide engaging and interactive education for Orang Asli kids in Maran, Pahang.

HRDF has sponsored a mobile library cabin that also can serve as class for the kids; HRDF also provide some allowance for the volunteer. The project timeline started from August 2018 until February 2019. Currently we have about 30 indigenous kids aged from 10 - 12 years old.  We believe, this special gems need to be nurtured and to attract them with interactive educational approach which slightly difference from school teaching.

Although some Orang Asli education level now has change, in fact now they hold a doctorate degree however we would say it is hard to measure Orang Asli kids academic achievement as most of them have lowest grade of A, B and C and for some reason you cannot push hard on them, they just need another ways of teaching and needed some guidance and motivation to be good and to do good not just in academic aspect but also in ethical area which involve attitude and behaviour.

According to the Annual Report of the Department of Orang Asli Development or JAKOA (formerly known as the Department of Orang Asli Affairs or JHEOA), in 2006, there were about 147,412 Orang Asli living mostly in Pahang and Perak (Department of Orang Asli Affairs, 2006). However, 76.9% of the Orang Asli population remains below the poverty line. 35.2% is classified as living in hard-core poverty, compared to 1.4% nationally (Department of Statistics Malaysia, 2010). The national infant mortality rate is at 8.9 out of 1,000 live births, yet Orang Asli infant mortality rate is at a high of 51.7. The average life expectancy for Orang Asli is 53 years, compared to the national average of 73 years (Rusaslina, 2010).

For the past 2 months we observed, some of them can’t even solve simple math thought they should by now ready for UPSR examination; as such, it is not surprising that many of them fail to catch up with the national school syllabus and surely we have to hold them from dropping out from school. From 30 kids, we acknowledge 5 of them are fast leaner and excel in Bahasa Malaysia, English and Mathematic.

The objectives of this project are as stated below:

1. To provide the opportunity to the university students involving in the social responsibilities to the community especially to the Orang Asli.
2. To create awareness among the Orang Asli students about the important of education.
3. To help reduce the number of illiterate among the Orang Asli community.
4. To increase the level of confidence and decrease the level of dropping out from school among the Orang Asli students.

1. We will provide modules for academic and activity and it have been strategically structured to be interactive as much as we can and this educational approach will cover experimental science, environmental, food ethic and more importantly educate them on giving back to the society by involving them in volunteerism and many more.
2. On academic module we simple follow syllabus under provision of Ministry of Education of Malaysia. The class start at 9:00 am until 1:00 pm every Saturday a combination of 2 hours academic and 2 hours of interactive activities.
3. The module will be setting by UiTM Cawangan Johor, Kampus Segamat, Human Resource Development Fund (HRDF) and Malaysia Outreach Volunteer Experience (MOVE).
4. The interactive activities such as:

1. Entry & Exit Ticket
2. Interactive demonstration
3. Jigsaw
4. Role Play
5. Beauty & The Beast

1. 50% of them shall improve on the academic area and more importantly gradually improvement on the attitude and behaviour towards society, environment and community.
2. We believe if their ethical behaviour improve together with the knowledge wise does it will create more opportunity in term on career and collaboration
3. It will upgrade their leadership skill and better decision making.
4. They will increase their self-confidence and they will know the important of education.
5. The soft skills will increase such as software and computer skills, hygiene and etc.