Fish For Life

FISHFORLIFE Community Service by Kolej MARA Banting at Earthquake Stricken Area Yogyakarta 15th – 24th August, 2007

FISHFORLIFE

CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION 3 Building Human Capital Through Humanity OBJECTIVES 4 Weaving Leadership And Inter-personal Skills With Realism PROGRAM 5 15th – 24th August 2007, Yogyakarta SPONSORSHIP 7 Corporate and Citizen Social Investment For The Future BUDGET 8 RM53,820 Total Expenditure, With RM20,000 Allocated For Mini Library CONCLUSION 9 A Small Cost For A Big Return

FISHFORLIFE Academic Bureau Students Council Kolej MARA Banting

INTRODUCTION

“Building Human Capital Through Humanity” An earthquake with the magnitude of 6.3 on the Richter scale struck near the city of Yogyakarta in central Java at 05:54 hours

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local time on 27 May 2006, causing widespread destruction and chaos in its wake. The latest official figure states that 5,749 people were killed, over 38,000 injured and more than 127,000 houses completely destroyed as well as over 450,000 additional houses damaged by the earthquake. It is estimated that 1,173,742 people were made homeless1. Six months have passed since the catastrophe, yet urgent help is still needed on an hourly basis. As the nation enters into the hyper-drive stage in nation building, building human capital is inevitably the paramount priority; without which the country lacks the competitive edge in this globalised world. What kind of human capital do we, as a nation, aspire for? One whose competence, skill, knowledge and competitiveness rivals that of the best in the world, yet retains our humanity, compassion and values. The efforts to mould our future professionals to meet this aspiration begin in the class room as well as outside; and must be carried out hand in hand. The moral conscience of the need of those who suffer from the Yogyakarta tragedy; and the practicality of taking this opportunity to develop holistic character for the nation’s human capital needs – presents the students of Kolej MARA Banting with a chance to contribute to alleviate the sufferings through this project aptly named “Fish For Life”2

The project fused together the character building aspects with harnessing the students’ enthusiasm to contribute to the victims of the Yogyakarta earthquake tragedy

OBJECTIVES

“Weaving Leadership and Inter-Personal Skills With Realism” Improving students’ project management skills

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The complexities and administrative requirements of a project of this magnitude provides the challenges and exposure to step change the project management skills of the students involved

Sources: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

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Fish For Life: From the old adage that “if you teach a man how to fish; he can look after himself for life” that befits this project which focuses on illiteracy, basic educational and health needs

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Social responsibility to the community

Direct involvement at the grass root level with efforts to relieve the sufferings around us; is the best way to fulfill our social responsibility from earlier on

Inculcating empathy and values

Great sufferings of others; in contract with the relative blessings that we have; shall provide a different perspective to life that ultimately inculcates empathy and values to participants

Promoting proactive volunteerism culture

The project serves as a manifestation of students’ proactive efforts to delve and “get their hands dirty” with real human issues that augurs well to promote a volunteerism culture amongst our teenagers

Honouring the long standing special relationship between Malaysia and Indonesia

The two countries have a common history and heritage that it is incumbent upon the youngsters of Malaysia to attend the needs of our fellow brethrens in Indonesia; that in the future renews the special relationship between the two countries

PROGRAM

“15th – 24th August 2007, Yogyakarta” Date Location Participants Logistics

: 15th to 24th August, 2007 : Yogyakarta : 21 students (19 years old) and 2 teachers

MINI LIBRARY: Completion of a mini library at a local school through provision of furniture, equipments and books 4

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The project has successfully secured full sponsorship from AirAsia for air tickets bound for Solo AirAsia has also kindly agreed to provide land transportation full time throughout the project Participants will lodge in a youth hostel in Yogyakarta throughout the duration of the project which has been tentatively booked

Site Mobilisation and Coordination  Fish For Life Project is jointly organized with the assistance of Jambi Students Association, a local students body mainly involved in the mobilization and coordination of relief work since the tragedy took place  While the project team from Kolej MARA Banting provides the volunteers, financing and content for the relief activities to be carried out, fellow team members from Jambi Students Association shall be responsible for the identification, management and coordination with local authorities and community in Yogyakarta Target Group  Identified school – through the completion of a mini library and provision of books (either collected through donation or purchased for the purpose of the project) for the mini library  Identified locality and community – specific activities targeted for specific groups e.g. health clinic for general public, reading campaign for students and teenagers etc. Date 15th August

16th August

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Program Departure for Solo on board AirAsia Arrival at Yogyakarta

In collaboration with MERCY, the Fish For Life Project will be joined by a team of medical professionals to provide free medical services

HEALTH CAMPAIGN: General awareness and educational program on basic health and selfkeeping requirements in disaster struck area

READING CAMPAIGN: Workshop based activities to simulate interest in reading and knowledge for school children

General welcoming ceremony for Fish For Life participants Coordination meeting with Jambi Students Association Participants break into groups Commencement of projects at separate locations:    

Mini Library Mobile Clinic Health Campaign Reading Campaign

17th August to 23rd August

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Continuation of program Daily post mortem and coordination meeting with Jambi Students Associations

24th August

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Aerial tour of other parts of Yogyakarta Malaysian-Indonesian Cultural Night

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Departure for KLIA

25th August

MOBILE CLINIC:

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Date

Program 

Arrival

SPONSORSHIP

“Corporate and Citizen Social Investment For The Future” Fish For Life intends to feature the community service work involved in Yogyakarta in local newspapers to promote volunteer work among the teenagers and students. The newspapers identified include The Star, New Straits Times and Utusan Malaysia.

Benefactors and donations to feature in newspaper articles and websites dedicated for work carried out by Fish For Life

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As our appreciation for the kind sponsorship from our benefactors, all contribution will be duly credited in the newspaper features planned. A special website will also be set up and launched to record the journeys and document Fish For Life, with special segments on benefactors and contributors.

BUDGET

“RM53,820 Total Expenditure, With RM20,000 Allocated For Mini Library” DETAILS TRANSPORTATION Airfare Landfare

AMOUN T (RM)

800 1,000

QUANTI TY

23 people -

SUBTOT AL (RM)

DAYS

17,600 -

-

TOTAL (RM)

-

TOTAL (RM)

18,400 1,000

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MEALS Per Day

ACCOMODATION Hostel

MEDICATION First Aid Insurance

PROJECT FUNDS Materials Tools

ALLOWANCE

15

500

200 30

15,000 5,000

20

22 people

330

-

-

1 pack 22 people

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23 people

GRAND TOTAL

200 660

-

460

12 days

10 days

-

-

10 days

TOTAL

19,400

3,960

3,960

TOTAL

3,960

5,000

5,000

TOTAL

5,000

-

200 660

TOTAL

860

-

15,000 5,000

TOTAL

20,000

4,600

4,600

TOTAL

4,600 53,820

CONCLUSION

“A Small Cost For A Big Return” Fish For Life attempts to bring a new level of volunteerism among the students bound for overseas (mostly destined for medical courses) in recognition of the utmost importance of the soft skills and empathy to guarantee medical professionals who fit the challenges and aspiration of the future. It is the recognition that without empathy and values, our huge investment in the education of our youngsters is nothing but hollow – as there is a greater and greater risk that we churn out future professionals who are out of touch and oblivious of national agenda; the opposite of the very purpose the nation embarks on massive scholarship program in the first place.

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It is our hope that Fish For Life receives the due support and attention; because the amount of cash required is miniscule compared to the benefits of well-rounded and virtuous medical professionals that the project attempts to achieve.

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