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COMMUNITY SERVICE INITIATIVE

DOG ADOPTION & FUND RAISING CAMPAIGN

 

Community Serice is a form of service learning while at the same time creating impact to the community. Service learning is basically using curriculum to help foster a sense of care and concern among students for the community at the world at large. The process would involve in creative thinking, problem solving skills, critical and reflective skill developement among the students. 

More important, community service is aimed to evoke social responsibilities among the youth and thus contribute to the society. Participation in form of exchanging the skills and fulfilling the needs of community with the objective of revitalising the community.  

Objective:

 

1) To inculcate a sense of Social Responsibility in students.

2) To promote the culture of caring and respect towards all members of society.

3) To make them responsible citizens of this country.

4) To understand the community around them.

5) To understand themselves in relation to their community

Dog Workshop

As a group of 25, we had run a dog adoption and fund raising campaign. Before getting involved in the project management, we had joined the workshops held by shelter to make us closer to the dogs and ways to communicate with them. We were asked to wash the dogs, cleaning the cage and help out some repairment for the shelter. The process is full of fun and joy. We then realised there're this group of small community which would willing to sacrifice their time and effort in taking care of the homeless dogs. This made me wondering if everyone of the community can put in 10% of their time and effort in doing non profit based community work, these homeless dogs scene might not existed. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Postcards Design and Facebook Page Promotion 

We went to the shelter and chose dogs who are ready for adoption. We took their photos and made them into various design of our postcards. Each postcards represent a story of a dog, their background, their names and their personalities. Facebook page was created and shared via the community around us. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Authority Permit Application 

As proposed in the proposal, the dog campaign was held at the One Utama Central Park and Desa Park CIty. We had run through a series of application to get the green light in order to share the adoption message to the local community. However, the reply is not as expected. The authority would not allow any activity throughout the park since it is a private park (Desa Park City). Although the decline of application, we still manage to approach their management people in promoting the campaigna and some locals who are around that area. Fortunately, the application for One Utama is good. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dog Adoption Campaign 

The campaign run for two days, on the 21st-22nd of May, from morning 0700 to evening 1800. The campaign is a huge success as a lot of them came and approach. We had prepare posters regarding the monthly expenses at dog shelter, ways to adopt a dog, ways of taking care of the dogs and so on. We walked around the park and convey the message to the community, adopt rather than buy. The result is really fascinating as some of them even come and play with the dogs whole day but did not get to adopt because of the space contrain in the apartment. However, the love from them to the dogs really touched me that there's still the warm hearts among the young under this huge technology development. There's one english teacher from the international school who offer help in coordinating with the shelter to run workshops for the kids at the school. They are letting the kids to run a non-profitable organisation themselves at this young age. It is really overwhelming that at this young age, their mindset had already been reaching out from the small individual self to the community. Community projects had usually have this magic power which can bring people from different social status, grown up background, races,gender, work together and make things happened. Although the time spent are rather long, we woke up at 5,fetching the dogs from the shelther, controlling the dogs via the journey, staying there whole day in facillitating the whole campaign, we are satisfied in a way that we gained something that we could not get from academic learning. The urge of helping out the needs, the needs of sharing what you have, the needs of developing ourselves together with others, from a selfish individual to a kind hearted one community. With this, the community would be a place where you can call as home. 

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