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#STANDTOGETHER Campaign Science voluntarism is generally considered an altruistic activity where an individual or group provides services for no financial or social gain but to benefit another person, group or organization. At the same time, voluntarism defined as voluntary action is the principle that individuals are free to choose goals and how to achieve them within the bounds of certain societal and cultural constraints. Volunteering is multi-faceted in its importance to our society. It enriches our society, brings us together as a community and helps keep businesses and other organizations afloat. Volunteering is important and everyone should actively participated in volunteer activity. It’s not only about the impacts volunteers can make in the lives of those less fortunate but the role it can play in making the participants more tolerant individuals and giving towards the global community. This is the main reason why some schools and colleges now make volunteering a compulsory requirement for their students. Volunteering can bring a whole host of benefits to participants when it comes to boosting their job prospects or enhancing their self-confidence and skills. Volunteer activity will offer new life experiences and insights into social and developmental issues, as well as the inner workings of non-governmental and community organizations. It might give the opportunity to travel abroad and experience diverse cultures, assisting local communities or environmental projects while seeing the world at the same time. Studies also indicate that the social interaction of volunteering can help to combat mental health issues, anxiety and depression. It will challenge some of previously held beliefs and encourage to be a more tolerant individual, respectful of differences in religion and culture. Other than that, participating in volunteer activities will boost career options. Through the experiences while volunteering, we may get a better idea of the career path that we have chosen and whether or not it’s right , saving ourself a lot of backtracking in the future. Malaysia government and private companies had conducted many volunteer program such as WWF-Malaysia, SOLS 24/7, SUKA society, Yayasan Generasi Gemilang, Hospitals Beyond Boundaries, Need To Feed The Need, PERTIWI Soup Kitchen and PAWS. Among this volunteer program, one of the most popular volunteer program in Malaysia is #STANDTOGETHER campaign. The theme of this campaign is ending bully in school through kindness. Bullying is defined as when an individual or a group of people with more power, repeatedly and intentionally cause hurt or harm to another person or group of people who feel helpless to

respond. While the bullying definition is broad and can occur in a variety of environments it usually is a relationship problem and requires relationship-based solutions. There are many different types of bullying that can be experienced by children such as physical bullying, social bullying, verbal bullying and cyber bullying. Physical bullying includes hitting, kicking, tripping, pinching and pushing or damaging property. Physical bullying causes both short term and long term damage. Verbal bullying includes name calling, insults, teasing, intimidation, homophobic or racist remarks, or verbal abuse. While verbal bullying can start off harmless, it can escalate to levels which start affecting the individual target. Social bullying, sometimes referred to as covert bullying, is often harder to recognise and can be carried out behind the bullied person's back. It is harm someone's social reputation or cause humiliation. While cyber bullying is bullying behaviours using digital technologies, hardware such as computers and smartphones and software such as social media, instant messaging, texts, websites and other online platforms.

Diagram 1 shows types of bullying that occur in school.

Bullying is a complex issue. It is important to recognize the sign in order to prevent bully cases among school students. The victims of bully will show emotional, behavioural and physical signs. For example, changes in sleep patterns, frequent tears and anger, becomes more aggressive and unreasonable, unable to speak up in class and appears insecure. So parents and teacher should notice children’s behaviour to protect them from becoming victim of bully.

In November 2018, a Childrean4Change survey was conducted by the Kindness Project with collaboration of the Ministry of Education and UNICEF. According to the survey it is found that 8 out of 10 Malaysian children have encountered bullying in their respective schools. 64% of the 2,000 children below the age of 18 surveyed confided that they have participated or possibly participated in acts of bullying. From the survey also, it is found out that 70% of children had witnessed a peer being bullied, 50% identified the classroom as being a venue where bullying usually occur, 27% of respondents were victims of humiliating name-calling and 16% were victims of hurtful rumours that made them be ostracized. Not only in Malaysia, other country children also facing the same problem. For example, in the US alone, close to 30% of the population have been subjected to bullied, while 13% of the student in grades 5 to 10 have bulled others. On the other hand, at least 20% of the American teens have harassed or physicality harmed their classmates while over 20% of the American teens have agreed to have ostracized their classmates. However, in spite of the high statistics, bullying is more common among boys than amongst girls.

Lifetime Bullying Victimization Rates

Diagram 2 shows increases of lifetime bullying victims from 2007 to 2016.

According to the bar chart, it is shown that the percentage of bullying is increases with time. But the problem with bullying in Malaysia is that nobody speaks up when it happens and nobody take it as a serious problem. The victims are too embarrassed to speak out and even

family members and teachers think it is just part of growing up. But they didn’t realise that bullying can give big impact on both children and community. So R.AGE organised #STANDTOGETHER campaign to raise awareness about bullying among Malaysian especially among students and parents. This campaign was launched April 2018 in collaboration with the Ministry of Education (KPM), Digi, UNICEF. #StandTogether, a nationwide campaign aims to end bullying through promoting kindness in school. This is a campaign to promote very simple values to all such as kindness, empathy and unity. The hope-fueled campaign received overwhelming support from NGOs and organisations like Teach for Malaysia and celebrity campaign ambassadors Jinnyboy, Lisa Surihani, Arwind Kumar, John Oommen, Dayang Nurfaizah, and Jenn Chia, all of whom pledged to support the campaign.

Diagram 3 shows R.AGE launched #STANDTOGETHER campaign

Diagram 4 shows representatives of SP Setia and Star Media Group launched the campaign with a video on bullying, alongside Tengku Zatasha.

There are several other reasons for this program is organized throughout the country and the nation. Among the main reasons is that through a study found that 150 million students have been reporting about the bullying that happens inside and outside the school. More than onethird of students have been victims of bullying. This is evidenced by several cases of bullying that happens in Malaysia. As KMLs, on March 25, 2019, a 16-year-old student who was beaten up by three students aged from 16 to 18 years for refusing an offer to enter their group. This causes the victim is seriously injured.

Diagram 5 shows news of 3 JB students beat up schoolmate.

In addition, examples of the most serious cases of bullying and popular in Malaysia is bullying T.Nahveen. On June 9, a 18-year-old T. Nhaveen allegedly tortured by a group of young people up to the level of brain death and this event has taken place in Georgetown. Four teenage boys involved in bullying has been charged under Section 302 of the Penal Code, which carries a mandatory death sentence.

Diagram 6 shows picture of assault victim T.Nhaveen dies in hospital.

Next, there is in some countries, school-aged children are not protected by state laws. They are not defined by the Children Act 2001 and the Convention of Child Rights as Malaysia. Child Rights are fundamental freedoms and the inherent rights of all human beings below the age of 18. These rights apply to every child, irrespective of the child's parent's / legal guardian's race, colour, sex, creed or other status. Among the countries that did not sign the agreement 'Rights of the Child in 2017' are Somalia and the United states. In Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and in Latin America, it is found out that there are children working against to the Children Act. In Malaysia also there are children forced to work without pay in an oil palm plantation at Kampung Tasek, Perak.

Diagram 7 shows the news of a group a children forced to work at Perak.

There are 158 million students aged from 6 to 17 years old felt that school is not a safer place especially classroom. This is due to the classroom is one where most bully cases took place. Bullying described herein not only physically but also mentally and emotionally. Examples of mental bullying is a form two female students had been bullied by a classmate by giving a negative image. This leads to loss of self-confidence and the student face difficulties in their daily life. In addition, examples of physical bullying happens in the classroom is February 14, a video duration of one minute 26 seconds start-of-mouth on Facebook, shows a boy being beaten by three boys which is believed captured by another student. After the incident, the victim of bullying and bullies have attended counseling sessions for positive development. At 39 countries in Europe and North America, 17 million students admitted that they are being bullied by classmates at school. The above incident is one of the reason

#STANDTOGETHER campaign is organized throughout the country. They are trying to reduce the problem of bullying in schools and to build young people who adhere to the values of love and respect.

Diagram 8 shows the viral video.

#STANDTOGETHER Campaign has organized a number of programs such as competitions, seminars and public talk to achieve the goal of this campaign. First of all, in Kota Kinabalu, a run named UNICEF Borneo Marathon was held. A total of 10,000 people took part in UNICEF's Borneo Marathon. UNICEF also participated in the run. The message conveyed through this run are children and adults need to work together to address the problem of bullying is widespread in schools.

Diagram 9 shows a participate proudly shows his medal after complete his run in UNICEF's Borneo Marathon.

Second, #STANDTOGETHER has organized several competitions in schools. The competition encourages students to share their ideas on how to make school safer place. Every school stand to win up to RM20,000 in grants to carry out their kindness for National Kindness Week. This competition mainly focus on primary and secondary schools only. But

both international schools and local schools are welcome to take part in this competition. They also giving away kindest people award to selected student, teacher and principals in schools around Malaysia. This #StandTogether National Kindness Week program has kicked off in hundreds of schools nationwide with students doing their part to create a kinder Malaysia. For example, In Penang, SMK Convent Green Lane launched an artificial intelligence (AI) chat bot that allows students to share their problems safely and anonymously. Through this AI chat bot, the teacher found out that Convent Green Lane students are very kind to other people, but they’re not so kind to themselves. This is because some of them are lonely and depressed. So they decided to carry out a program to undergoes this problem.

Diagram 10 shows students and teachers from SJK(C) Shang Wu, seen here with Arwind celebrating the start of the National Kindness Week.

Diagram 11 shows bar chart that proved most bullying occur in school.

Third, the program “#ENDViolence Youth Talk” organized by UNICEF Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur on August 8, 2018. UNICEF Malaysia has collaborated with Digi Telecommunications Sdn.Bhd to ensure the success of this program. The main purpose of this program is to give awareness about bullying and cyber-bullying in schools that can bring a negative impact on both students and the community. A global survey issued by UNICEF on World Children’s Day 2017 revealed that almost 7 out of 10 children in Malaysia worry a lot about bullying. Children in Malaysia also have serious concerns for other global issues, such as violence against children (64%), and terrorism (60%). The same survey found that 95% of children in Malaysia believed that the world would be a better place for children if their leaders would listen to the voice of children. So Malaysian undergraduates have participated in the Youth Talk to discuss this serious issue and how to resolve them. The #ENDViolence Youth Talk provides a safe platform for young people to say for themselves, openly discuss and contribute to how they want to end violence. The voices will be channelled to shape a global youth manifesto that will be presented to world leaders. As a way to cope, Korean artist, Choi Siwon asked young people to share their opinions via the internet using the #ENDViolence and #StandToLearn.

Diagram 12 shows presence of Nurul Izzah, Siwon and Lisa Surihani to #ENDViolence Youth Talk.

Fourth, three helpline have been created to help children who are in danger situation such abuse, accident and situations that related to children. Example of helpline are Befrienders, Childline Malaysia and Talian Kasih 15999. Befrienders is a group of volunteers with the help of psychology, they will listen their customer’s problem without any prejudice. While Childline Malaysia is an emergency outreach service for children who are going through a period of crisis such as dangerous situation. The purpose of this service is to protect children

under 18 years old. While Talian Kasih 15999 provides emergency services for abuse and domestic violence. They provide help to single mothers, the poor and disabled children. Counselling service is also available through this hotline. In conclusion, bullying is a socially unacceptable behaviour caused by both social rejection and various underlying drivers. The main risk factors include personality, psychosocial factors such as social rejection, struggle for power, family risk factors such as painful childhood experiences, and poor parenting. Despite all these risk factors, the effects of bullying outweigh the benefits of bullying. However, it is important to understand that bullying is a deviance that can be controlled and eliminated. It is also important to understand that the statistics provided above may not be reliable because there are cases in which bullying incidences are not reported or under reported. Children should be fully protected so they can survive, grow, learn and develop to their fullest potential and we should protect our next generation. Parents also need to play an important role in this case. A family is the first line of protection for children. Parents are responsible for building a protective and loving home environment. While schools and communities are responsible for building a safe and child-friendly environment outside the child's home. . So as a Malaysian, we should give support to this #STANDTOGETHER campaign which is conducted every year in order to protect children from bullying.

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