Thank You!

Life teaches us that everything must come to an end even if it is good or bad. So does this subject. This subject teaches us to appreciate life and cherish all the little things that we might have missed before we lost it forever. Thus, we will make use the outcomes we gained from this subject to enhance our understanding on what make us a better citizens of this beautiful and diverse country and also to become a better part of our society.

So, before we close our curtain we would like to give thanks to the people listed below:

THANK YOU!

Our Co-ordinator: Dr. Ho Pei Yee

Our Supervisor: Dr. Shamiri

Our Lecturers of Chemical Engineering Department

Every group members of Group 5 

Every donators of our engagement

The committee members of CEDAN

All the students of Chemical Engineering

Munirah Hamid from PERTIWI Soup Kitchen (for accepting us!)

Every PERTIWI's committee members who assisted us

Mechanical Engineering student who engaged with us

UMCCed's Management student that engaged with us on the first day

and last but not least..

To the homeless who teaches us the value of life, respect and love toward each other when living in a society.

Thank You Social Engagement! We love you!

Some of the lovely people of Chemical Engineering Department.

A Wake Up Call

The experiences and knowledge I have gained throughout our visit to the places around Kuala Lumpur at night was truly eye opening. Though surrounded by technologies and accommodations there are still some people that are in need of a place to stay and some food to eat. The Pertiwi Soup Kitchen have helped not only by distributing free foods but they also have a ‘portable clinic’ that can attend to the people’s health. Most importantly, these people are not all homeless, some just needed help because they can’t seem to get enough food on the plate for their family.  

Siti Nur Adibah 

Benefits of vounteering

 Through this activity, I know that there are a lot of disabled people in the world. They might lost hope in 

their future, unable to support their family due to some problems, lack of confidence standing out of this 

society and more. These helpless people should be concerned by the society. As a university student, a 

youth leader in future, we should join this kind of volunteer work and contribute more to society. University 

students are not a standard higher than those homeless people. We should break the gap between poor and 

rich. This is what I learnt from this society work.

                                                                                                                               By Nicole Lee

Not Just An Experience

        Volunteering is not something new to me as I have been a volunteer quite a few times before. All the volunteer jobs that I have taken part before share the same traits, which is to ensure the success of an event. Previous volunteer jobs did give me wonderful experiences, but, Social Engagement gave me something more. It made me realise that how fortunate and blessed am I to have a home, to never worry when my next meal will be and have the ability to make a differences in others life, even just a small, insignificant changes. Furthermore, PERTIWI Soup Kitchen also taught me something new. Sometimes you have to be strict and kind simultaneously. The people are strictly requested to follow the rules. Anyone who disobey the rules will not be entertained. All these rules serve to ease the flow of distributing the flow and it has proven to be successful! There is not a single person who did not get the food and the flow is very smooth as well as efficient.

By Mei Yi

Thank you PERTIWI Soup Kitchen

Introducing myself to the visitors and talking to them personally really changed my outlook on life and in people, in general. I learnt about the backgrounds of weekly visitors and found out that some were former teachers, engineers, psychologists, and veterans. I was shocked! I couldn't believe how educated these people were and I couldn't fathom the thought that they had to resort to soup kitchens to sustain themselves.
The soup kitchen tore down any biased opinion I had first carried in, since my thoughts were always influenced by my family, my peers, and society. These people were not crazy or lazy, as I have heard them been labelled. I learnt in such unfortunate turns of life, they marched into the wrong direction and all they needed was a helping hand to guide them back on track; and, for the meantime, the soup kitchen would suffice. Speaking to the visitors really changed my life. They've voiced how difficult it was to survive financially, especially because of the bad economic state that our nation is in, but in addition to that, they struggled because of the preconceived notions of laziness people carried about them, just like I once had. It would put them down and make them feel inferior and, as a result, I felt really dumb for having even had the slightest biased thought. Meanwhile, here we are as students, taking what we have for granted; eating all we can because we have the money to spend, and wasting all we don’t finish because it has no immediate effect on us. It made me ashamed of my own habits and made me more self-conscious about wasting my resources. 

Written by,

Lim Kuan Ming

Learn to Appreciate

This is the first time i involve in such activity. This activity is actually giving me a new experience and perception towards the life of Malaysian. That is really a huge number of homeless people struggling in this city. Luckily, there is also quite a large number of volunteers are willing to sacrifice their time and money to help these peoples. I am amazed of the way Pertiwi Soup Kitchen handling and controlling the crowd of around 600 peoples every time. The way they distribute food and drinks and the way they give order and communicate are very organised and clear and these are what should we, as university students should learn. Besides, I had experienced to communicate with different people. Some people are really great, they appreciate what we had done and and actually thank us sincerely. I felt so happy and satisfied when heard it. While some are really bad temper and they will just blaming and even scolded us. Therefore, I really experience and learn to communicate with different kinds of people. Lastly, the most important lessons i learnt, is to appreciate what we have todays. Since there are so many people who cannot even afford a meal. So, I appreciate what I have today and never give up whenever facing problems. Life will still goes on.

-Lee Chee Siong-

An Experience That Will Foreverly Change Your View of Life!

I used to hear this type of program in TV, newspaper and etc. It never
occurred to me to try it out at the first place but I was given the
chance to join before the Social Engagement. A bit of excitement
before I joined and truthfully, it was fantastic and eye-opening after
I met all the homeless there for the first time. Heartwarming too. I
used the subject as a base for me to do more of this activity and I
was really glad that my group mates agreed to it. I even happier when
they feel the same way as I felt after joining the engagement. This is
not going to be my last time, a student life could be very hectic
sometimes especially engineering student but whenever I have time and
enough resource in the future, I will join this again. Life is
worthless if you do not care enough to give back to society.

-Syukri Abd Rahman