Visit to Lighthouse Welfare Home

On the 10th September 2016 (Saturday), a community service project was carried out at the Lighthouse Welfare Home in Bangsar. Twenty-six members and guests of the Rotaract Club of Sunway University participated in this project. Among them, three were from the Rotaract Club of Sentul. There were four sessions: two games, a tea time and group photograph.

Sunway College Student Council Spread Cheer at Trinity Home

Twenty students from the Sunway College Student Council paid a visit to Trinity Home in Petaling Jaya. For their visit the students brought the children stationery items which were bought with funds raised from a charity bazaar and donation drive organised by the Student Council. The funds were also channelled towards paying for ten school going children’s Parents Teachers Association (PIBG) fees.

After spending some time playing games with the children at the home, the Student Council members chaperoned and paid for eight children to experience an afternoon at Discoveria - an interactive, hands-on learning centre at Avenue K, Kuala Lumpur. There, asides from learning about dinosaurs in particular, the children engaged in wall climbing and paintball. Their day out completed, the kids were treated to a meal back at the home with a sharing session to end the day. The sharing session had everyone, including the Student Council members talk about their day’s experience.

The Sunway College Student Council members together with the children at Discoveria

Sunway’s MUFY Students Take to the Streets

“This experience made me realise how fortunate we are - these people don’t even have a place to stay and they survive on the food that people give to them. This trip really changed how I think and made me appreciate what I have now”, said Cherlyn Ong.

Ong together with thirteen students and six lecturers from the Monash University Foundation Year (MUFY) programme at Sunway College participated in the Global Street Mission (GSM) Street Outreach Feeding Program at Jalan Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur. GSM is a non-governmental organisation that reaches out to the downtrodden and marginalised community in Chow Kit.

MUFY students dishing out food

Victoria University Business Club Raise Funds for Needy Students

Students from the Victoria University Business Club (VUBC) at Sunway College Kuala Lumpur recently handed over a cheque totalling RM7,500 to Carolyn Chong, Associate Director, Student Mobility & Partnerships of Victoria University, Melbourne. The funds were raised by VUBC students through a 3-day Philanthropy Bazaar held in March 2014 for underprivileged students from lower or middle income families in Victoria University, Melbourne.

“The most unforgettable memory was when all of us stayed up late to decorate the venue. VUBC members have placed their greatest efforts into this event,” said Ong Lee Yan, President of VUBC. “The ones in charge for the event were Phaik Wa, Vincent and NeeNa, who really coordinated the team well“, she added.

Sunway students reach out to refugee kids

A group of Myanmar refugee children have been receiving tuition classes given voluntarily by Sunway students since August 2011.

The students, from Sunway University and Sunway College are all members of the Sunway Volunteer Society who have committed themselves to give classes every Friday morning in Geography, English, Math and Art to the children at a church in Petaling Jaya. There are currently 60 children in the weekly classes and are aged from 4 to 16 years.

Chang (left) with some of the refugee youngsters

It’s all about ‘Sharity’ and Unity with MUFY

If anything, the Monash University Foundation Year (MUFY) students are well-aware and more than willing to be a part of the MUFY ‘Sharity’ Carnival, a charity event organised annually. ‘Sharity’, held at the Energy Hub cafeteria was overflowing with energy as teachers and students made their way over to purchase delicious food and drinks, fashionable clothes, games, beautiful accessories and even pampered themselves with manicures and pedicures.

Lecturers and students presenting a mock check to Prof. Dr. Hany Binti Mohd Ariffin, Senior Consultant Paediatric Oncologist (centre), UMMC.

A noble act from Sunway CIMP students

Sunway’s Canadian International Matriculation Programme (CIMP) students exercised their management skills through a one day charitable fundraiser as part of the requirement of their Business Leadership Management Fundamentals (BLMF) subject. 55 students used their management knowledge to create a company and sold unique products during a sale at the Energy Hub at Sunway College recently.

(From left to right) CIMP Director John Futa, Godfrey Rajalingam, Angie Heng, Lecturers Elizabeth Erskine and Dave Leonard, and Lee Siaw Teng.

Sunway-TES students raise RM20,000 to alleviate hunger

The End Child Hunger Fun Walk held recently in aid of World Vision, organised by a group of Sunway ACCA students successfully highlighted the plight of the victims of the West African Famine Crisis 2012. Christopher Louis Tan, an ACCA student of Sunway College and the project director shared “This idea was started by my 3 roommates and I who wanted to do something that can break the perception that people have about accountants being bean counters. We chose World Vision because the famine crisis is very new and affects 12 million people in the Sahel region. About 300,000 children are malnourished and are in urgent need of medical aid and food. Many families are surviving on only one meal a day.”

Mr Teo Ee Sing, Executive Director, Sunway College (right) presenting the cheque of RM20,000 to World Vision’s Tan Shu Yi (left) while students (in between, left to right) Christopher Louis Tan, Lim Why Loon, Wan Chin Hao and Chang Yao Hern look on.

Bringing technology to a needy school

A group of students currently pursuing their ACCA and CAT at Sunway College, showed that they cared. They helped to transport 15 personal computers from Sunway Education Group and set up the computer laboratory at SRJK Ulu Yam Baharu.

This was part of the students’ community enrichment project under their Moral Studies class to reach out to the less–privileged communities. The computers were donated by Sunway Education Group.

Learning about business and charity

72 students of the Canadian International Matriculation Programme (CIMP) of Sunway College donated RM4,600 to WWF Malaysia. The amount was raised from a two-day product sale at the Energy Hub in Sunway College in which students applied knowledge of five management skills from their Business Leadership Management Fundamentals (BOH4M) class to come up with their own unique products and services to elicit purchases from their fellow students.

The BOH4M class with Brandon (4th from right, first row)

Class representative, Lee Ee-Anne said “We are proud to donate, even in this small way to WWF Malaysia, an organisation which makes a significant contribution to Malaysian wildlife. Thanks for all the great work you do”

From left to right, John Futa, Brandon Liu (receiving cheque), Liz Erskine, Ee-Anne and Dave Leonard

Fellow student, Christine Tan said “We had a fun experience raising the money and it feels good to help society and the environment”

Mr John Futa, Director of the CIMP and lecturers Liz Erskine and Dave Leonard as well as Ee-Anne presented the cheque to WWF Malaysia’s Youth Outreach Executive, Brandon Liu at Sunway College.

Role model women inspire a sweet act from Chermaine

After weeks of talking to and listening to 5 inspirational Malaysian philanthropic women as the host of NTV 7’s SK-11 Miracle Makers, Chermaine Poo decided that she would do her part for charity as well – by baking cupcakes to raise funds for a charitable organisation of her choice. Poo became the highlight in the show she was hosting when she challenged herself to bake 1,000 cupcakes and to sell them, in a charity drive named “Chermaine’s Cupcake Charity”.

The TV actress and chartered accountant baked the cupcakes single-handedly, only enlisting the help of her celebrity acquaintances and close friends to pack the cupcakes, all done within a span of two days. Within that time, Poo had to sell the beautiful cupcakes, packed in boxes of 6 starting at RM50 each, at Sunway Pyramid.

Chermaine (4th from right) delivered cupcakes to staff and students at Sunway campus foyer

CIMP students raise RM2, 500 for charity home

Synergy combined with energy produced a fruitful result as Sunway College’s Canadian International Matriculation Programme (CIMP) students charitable fundraiser managed to accumulate RM2,500 for the Pusat Penjagaan Kanak-Kanak Cacat Taman Megah (Taman Megah Disabled Children’s Home). The entrepreneurial and management skills of the 70 students from the Business Leadership Management Fundamentals (BLMF) class were put to test as they developed unique products such as handmade accessories, piggy banks, badges, cultural goods, fresh fruits and delicious baked goods during the 2-day charity sale in Sunway College.

Mr. John Futa, V. Baskar, Tham Thin Yin, Lecturers Liz Erskine and Dave Leonard from the Business Leadership course.

Angelina Saw Mei Yi, a BLMF student shared, “We started preparations for the charity sale 2 months in advance by conducting surveys and analysing the response towards our potential products in order to meet quality standards and customer needs. Everything had to be done with precision to ensure a smooth flow of business. We created handmade products in line with the findings from our reports in order to link the practical part of our work with what we’ve learnt in class with the theory of management functions, crucial for a business to operate.

The student selling piggy banks during the charity sale.