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Community Service Initiative
Community Service is a form of service learning. Service learning is basically using curriculum to help foster a sense of care and concern among us for the community and the world at large. This can be village, an orphanage or a distant dying species. In the process of recognizing and taking steps to meet the needs of others, we will enhance our creative, critical and reflective skills. More importantly this module will help develop our personal and social responsibility. We will learn through participating in a service experience and have the opportunity to use our skills and knowledge in real-life situations. We will be exposed to community needs and experience caring for another person and learn about the resources available to people for revitalizing their communities. Finally, we will have the opportunity to develop basic knowledge and skills in community service strategies, tactics, and techniques, including the art of volunteerism.
MODULE OBJECTIVES
This subject is especially designed :
1) To inculcate a sense of social responsibility in the students.
2) To promote the culture of caring and respect towards all members of society.
3) To understand the community around them.
4) To understand themselves in relation to their community
In this project, we have to work as a group for the community to meet the needs of the people there. The selected venue is located at Ulu Melaka Orang Asli Village, Serendah, Selangor.
The goal of civil society is to ensure that people are helped to lead better lives. Therefore, we are going to volunteer and work as a meaningful way to bring about change to build strong communities by cultivating an ethic of sharing, helping + caring.
PHASE 1
For my group, which is Group 2, we are going to paint and clean of the outlying area around reading space compound such as external wall, drain and staircase. During 22th of April, we were having our short discussion for around 1 hour in class and Leon, our group leader assigned us the different task.
For my part, I was assigned to clean the compound and the drain.
During the next day which is 23th of April, we had our short meet up for around 30 mins to take our group photo at Block E Level .
MEETING 1
On 26th April 2019, we were having our first meeting and also presentation from 12pm to around 3pm which is almost 3 hours meeting at E5.04.
After the presentation, we had realized that our color scheme and design for the exterior wall were not suitable. We spent around 1 hour in the discussion of choosing the color scheme and also the design of the exterior wall. Finally, we make our decision. We have chosen a brighter color scheme instead of neutral or warm color as brighter color scheme is more suitable for the children. After all the discussions, we have selected yellow, blue and grey as our color scheme.
"Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." --Vince Lombardi
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🐝Group 1 - Sponsorship Team
🐤Group 2 - Neighbouring & Surrounding
🐞Group 3 - Wall & Floor Transformation
🐜Group 4 - Books & Shelves
🐧Group 5 - Learning Aids Making
🦑Group 6 - Social Media
Feel free to click the below link of our meeting and presentation 1.
https://www.facebook.com/292518454994999/videos/842633736100455/?t=0
MY GROUP MEMBERS.
A group photo with our lecturers after we done our presentation.
PHASE 2
After the presentation on 26th of April, we had some discussion with the interior group about the colour of window and door framing . We got the news that the color paint will be sponsor by Kansai Paint. Therefore, we have to identify the specific color needed and also calculate the total amount of paint to inform Group 6 which is the sponsorship group. We took around 2 hour for the discussion.
After that, we also had our discussion with our lecturer to finalize our decision before we proceed to any further. The discussion took us around 1 hour.
Below is at attached PDF file of our group proposal.
MEETING 2
During 28th of May, we had our second meeting. In this meeting, we were planning out the time we will be doing the renovation of the mini library. We met up with our lecturer, MISS NORJI and also all the group leaders to discuss on the logistics and transportation before we carrying out the phase 1 of our renovation works for the mini library. This meeting took us around 2 hours long.
Our lecturer, Miss Norji was helping us to note down the important notes.
PHASE 3
On 16th of June, me and my group members had to go to the venue given to start our renovation works for the mini library. Before heading to the destination, we had to gather at the campus as our group leader need to brief us some important notes. We gathered at the campus at 9AM. After briefing,we started to depart to ULU MELAKA ORANG ASLI VILLAGE. The journey took us around 1 hour and 30 mins. We reached our destination on around 11 AM. We started to clean the compound. For my part, I was helping to clean the surrounding compound and the drain. After done cleaning my part, I also helped to paint the exterior wall.
Although it was really a hectic day, but we all enjoyed much and the joys of helping them to renovate the mini library is really indescribable. We did all our work and completed at 8PM. We took almost 9hours to help renovated the mini library.
REFLECTION
Throughout this project, Community Service is an important activity every person should embrace as they are growing up. Doing community service, a person will find themselves and be exposed to the lifestyles of other people, which also tends to make the volunteer more aware of the needs of the less fortunate. Volunteering also contributes to the result of more teenagers being more grateful for everything they have and thus they give more. After this project, I wish I had done more community service than i had done and I regret not following through with the opportunities I was given.
I enjoyed doing community service and it is the first time I was exposed to needy children. Though my community service lacked of hours and effort, I do admit that I could do better next time. I expect to be a teacher's aide at here and continue learning about my faith by sharing my ideas with other religious members of the community and helping to teach the young peopl. In addition, I will be more open-minded when it comes to opportunities for community service and do my best with following through with what I set my mind to. All I can say is it is really fun and great experience of doing this community service with my uni friends.
PROJECT DETAILS
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