2021 Benefitting Society - UCSI University - Malaysia

2021 Benefitting Society - UCSI University - Malaysia

Food4Wellness + Education4Lives

Transformative learning designed to facilitate awareness, understanding and shaping of one’s attitude and behaviour on consuming nutritional diet for greater health and well-being sadly has not reached the whole world population. Food4Wellness + Education4Lives (F4W+E4L) attempts to offer these learning opportunities to refugee and asylum seeker youths who are living in Kuala Lumpur. These youths do not have access to formal education, and many are forced to work at a young age.

The training includes physical or virtual classes and some hours of practical and internship experience. Throughout the training period, the youths have the opportunities to interact with Malaysian and international students, and the staff and volunteers of the project partners. With the support of the project key partner, the program integrates the use of ICT and community care activities.

F4W+E4L program aspires to facilitate a holistic learning experience, and that the transformed lives and learning outcomes will impact their families as well as the refugee and local communities. 

Top 3 learnings:

1. Partnerships among community members are key in resolving complex social challenges.    
2. We model leadership by example to our students by welcoming and engaging the underprivileged in our experiential and classroom learning. 
3. Education becomes more meaningful when we bring the community to our campus and education to the community.

Videos

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