Reflection

In total, we just can conclude that we have done a marvelous Social Engagement trips to Sekinchan and Rumah Hope Sentul. Reflecting back the moments, we have learnt a great lesson and do feel that we have contributed something good in return to the society.

Here we would like to share our reflections on the trips we made chronologically. We would like to start up with the trip to Sekinchan. As we spent our time at a school in Sekinchan on the first day, we realized on the vitality of bringing back to the society of the knowledge we gained through our endeavor to University of Malaya (UM). Too good to be true, secondary school students must have best of their knowledge on the pathway to higher educational institutions, as it can be the parameter set to achieve the goals of their life. This may seem something that of small in effort, but later to see the seeds sown in the heart of the youngsters have grown into a tree will be truly a great achievement of ours. We believe that we obtained a valuable lesson that can make this society a well-educated one in the eyes of the world.

Moving on to the second day event! Cleaning a church compound with fellow members of the church was indeed a great blessing for us. As we joined hand in hand to finish the task of cleaning the church compound, we realized that differences in our beliefs and religions are so not needed in order to be engaged with the society. People tend to neglect the need of the others since they make their hearts prone to radically rely on their own selves. This should be proved wrong as we live in a multiracial and multicultural country, where unity is our strength. We, as UM students, did realize that to make the social to be engaged in its welfare needs open-mindedness among the citizens.

Love nature, save the Earth. A society does not mean the lives of human beings only. Nature that has been created by the Almighty God does counted in as a part of the society. Lately, environmental issues are on the rise in the news. How much concerned are we? Thus, when we took the initiative of the cleaning the beach at Sekinchan, the people around were pushed to move and make the beach clean. It was not an individual effort indeed. It was a progress showered by an engaged society. As the crowd turned bigger to join hands, we actually managed to clean the beach in a short while than expected time range. This event did really teach us that environmental cleanliness can be really maintained if the society come together and take the responsibility.

HOPE Worldwide Malaysia visitation, on the other hand, did make a great impact on us on the part of the society to play for the kids growing up in poverty. These kids need love and affection as they ill-fated. They need assistance in areas such as education and mental health. Thus, as we realized that need, we took part in My Reading Program for the children. Publicizing this matter, did create a public awareness. We gained support from the external sources and so we were able to buy stationeries for the kids. This made us to know how the society is still care about the children who are stricken by hopeless situation, giving them hope and life.

 In conclusion, as we reflect back, we gained ample of lessons throughout the Social Engagement activities. We were able to create awareness to the students and their parents on the importance to know the educational pathway for a better future. We are also satisfied with our efforts to bring good to the society in making known the vitality of education in life. We also understood that involving into a social responsibility event, should there be no differences in beliefs or culture pointed out to make an improved society. As students of UM, we believe that the hopes are upon us to make the society come together to clean the environment, thus creating a better place for the future generation. We also do feel that the unfortunate do need attention from the society as they should not be left behind from the nation’s progress. We trust that the future will be better if the reflections we poured here is fully propelled in the society.