Empowering A Better Future

Poverty has always been and still is a cause for concern in many places around the world. Despite the amount of effort made to create awareness by many organisations and to raise funds to support the underprivileged; we have yet to see significant changes as it has become a norm for some of these communities where they have learnt to adapt and live with it, turning into a vicious cycle.   Youth, the future of the country. Many of them have dreams but it remains just that, a dream. Not believing that they have the power to realise it. Some dare not even dream. For many, they lose sight of it after a while, to the reality of life in order to make a living, support their family. Forced to work, to earn so that they can survive. While on the other side of the spectrum, the rich are getting richer. Have you ever wondered why?  
We believe that the key to breaking the poverty cycle is to educate, to raise awareness. They will not only gain exposure, a wider perspective of life for them to make inspired choices but also realise the potential in them. We want them to see that the world is their oyster. The community would shift as they begin to work towards their dreams and realise that they have the ability to create a successful life for themselves.  
In March – May 2015, we selected 34 youths for our Self-empowering, Transition & Employability Programme (STEP). STEP is a 10-week career empowerment programme which seeks to build and nurture employability and transitional skills amongst the underprivileged youth in Malaysia. We have had the satisfaction of watching each and every one of them coming out of their shell, stepping up, week after week throughout the programme.  
Now, we wish to run an extension of this programme for 200 underprivileged & refugee youth (aged between 13 and 19) in Malaysia. It will be a day of discovery, exposure, learning and understanding the different and unique career opportunities available today. We hope that through this event, they will realise that it is more than possible to support their family by following their passion and having a dream career. This event will also be open to the public for a nominal fee as we believe that this will also be beneficial to Secondary schools & College students.  
The future of these underpriviledged / refugee youth are limited if no actions are taken to expose them to the limitless opportunities around them. We rely on voluntary contributions from beautiful people like you in order to continuously run programmes and events build to train the youth to become financially self-sustainable by the time they leave the orphanage / community homes.