Welcome to our Blog: a Review on our Time Spent at Youth Junction
Tuesday 14 April 2020
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The Campus Community Engagement (CCE) Program enable us to work with non-governmental organisations (NGO) in social care specifically in order to gain experience in working with multi-disciplinary teams. This gave us the opportunity to interact with the refugee community in Setapak under the organisation Malaysian Care. It lasted for six-weeks and has enlightened our views on the realities faced by refugees in communicating with the local Malaysians in the area.
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Great presentation Anne, Zenia & Sharmilee. It was clear and the information present accurate. Ya'll definitely made a huge impact with the youths at the center, some even asked if yall are coming back. All of you were a big help with taking care of the center, keeping it in order and good friends over the time spent together as well. I enjoyed our many great conversations as well, the serious & not so serious ones =). Do continue to use and share your experience working with youths, youth center operations, conducting & planning youth/children programs & understanding/awareness of the refugee community. Remember, ya'll are always welcomed back anytime..
ReplyDeleteNote: under your section "Refugee Crisis in Malaysia"
- Community based schools run by UNHCR & NGO volunteers.
* Many of the schools that refugee children attend are community based schools that are managed & run by the refugee community themselves with little or no support. Teachers are community members who most times not trained as teachers and not equipped with teaching skills or the best teaching materials. There are schools refugee schools managed & run by local entities, however many learning centers are run by the refugee community as well.
The above was written by Nicholas Perera from Malaysian Care
ReplyDeletehey Nic P! hope you have been well, thank you for your time and patience with us while 'working' with YJ. It was a fun experience :) 10/10 would recommend hahah
DeleteP.S: my name is Xenia, but I'm gonna pretend that was a typo :,)
Superb idea on Covey's 7 habits!Am glad you realised the limitations faced and suggested changes to the approach to to enforce the habits on these kids. Communication was mentioned as an issue, can you elaborate- was it the language? Do also note that its important community projects are sustainable and require minimal cost- I think this project does meet both these requirement. Great job! Dr Uma Palanisamy
ReplyDeletehello Dr Uma,
ReplyDeleteyes, the issue with communication was the language barrier as the children come from various backgrounds and their English proficiency isn't as good as noted by Mr Perera in the above comment, most of them attend community based schools that are managed and run by the refugee community with little or no support with teachers who are not well equipped with teaching skills or teaching materials.
On behalf of my group members, we would like to thank you for this opportunity. We had a wonderful time with the children and do hope to be able to return to YJ. Kind regards.
I found your idea interesting... do you have the detailed breakdown of how the 'mini-camps' would be conducted? Is it a day/stayover camp? How would the sessions be run... do you have the plan? It's worth developing and should be engaging. Hi Nicholas, btw! Love your centre!
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