SE Refugees Program is a one-day class that teaches refugee students from our pool of beneficiaries on the concept of social entrepreneurship and business model canvas. We had 19 incredible participants who were energetic throughout the two sessions we had. Between the sessions, we also had breakout room activities that groups of participants would be with their respective facilitators who are our volunteers to discuss creating a group business model canvas.
Let’s take a look at the impact measurement for this program.
Social Entrepreneurship Program for B40 community as an introduction to upskill to be a social entrepreneur, 2 modules were presented, namely Introduction to Social Entrepreneurs as well as business models that can be used for social entrepreneurs. Not only that, participants were also exposed to the concept of Business Canvas Model where they had to brainstorm ways to impact as a Social Enterprise, identifying their mission, product/service offered and choosing the right business model.
Total of 19 small entrepreneurs from the B40 community attended to gain knowledge. This program was intended for those who wish to transition from regular entrepreneurs to social entrepreneurs.
Align with objective of Taylor’s Community that uplift the community to be able generate income and at the same time help the marginalised communities and the environment.
We are glad that the participants are taking the leap of faith to explore the idea of becoming social entrepreneurs to create a positive impact on the community and the environment!
Let’s take a look at the impact measurement for this program.
HRDF Training session on Effective Volunteering Training was one of new milestone for Taylor’s Community. The training that have conducted for our Taylor’s internal department that give us a chance to explore our role as HRDF certified trainers.
This 2 days program gave us a chance to dive deeper into effective volunteering for an employee and creating meaningful impacts. Our session more meaningful to the learning where we have 18 students from MSRI (Malaysian Social Research Institute) participated in an experiential workshop run by Taylor’s Community trainees.
We are huge thankful for having great support both from Taylor’s internal team as well as beneficiaries in achieving a new milestone.
It’s been more than 3 months since Movement Control Order (MCO) started. It was a situation that none of us alive have ever been through and many were greatly affected by it. However, as we enter into Recovery stage (RMCO) and close the old chapter, let’s welcome the new chapter knowing that this shall soon pass. Few weeks back, Taylor’s Community launched our new logo. This is a mark to show how we’re ready to take control of the new normal situation and aim to impact communities even more.
Moving forward, we are working together with various partners such as NAMA Foundation, Cummins, Maybank Islamic and PRUKasih to welcome in more programs that impacts various communities such as the B40 communities, refugees, single parents and people with disabilities. The majority of our programs will be executed online for the safety of our communities. That being said, just like how schools are reopening, with the right SOP and proper guidelines, Taylor’s Community aims to run physical programs again. We understand that community living is essential to build relationships and trust and to sustain the support system we have already built, physical classes or occasional visitations are vital. In a long run, we will be able to empower these communities to do the same for their communities and a ripple effect will be created.
As we begin July, we’re excited that all of our new programs will begin this month, and we’re even more excited to plan programs that could involve physical classes. If you would like to impact communities in a sustainable way, do drop us an email, may.wong@taylors.edu.my.
When the Movement Control Order (MCO) was implemented, we wanted to find out how our community was doing and did a survey amongst 100 entrepreneurs who lived in PPR areas. The survey showed that 77% of them felt mentally stressed out. We realise that this was heavily affected by the fear of getting the virus (28%), financial needs as many of them couldn’t work or run their businesses (27%), and over their children’s learning (15%).
With this, we knew that it was essential for us to address their needs rather than just doing things Business-As-Usual (BAU). We knew we had to first address their need for groceries and how they can cope with their current situation. Moreover, we knew that we couldn’t fish for them long term, empowering them to sustain themselves during this period is also essential.
We quickly started a Program Keusahawanan (PK) Alumni Facebook Group to empower our B40 entrepreneur community and a B40 women’s support WhatsApp group chat to provide this community with emotional well being modules. For each committed participation, we will then provide them grocery care packs to help them with food supplies through this difficult period. Throughout these 3 months, with the help of various partners like CIMB Islamic, CIMB Foundation, Canon, Takaful Malaysia and Impact Malaysia, we were able to deliver 639 care packs to more than 2,530 B40 family members.
To execute our programs, social media platforms were our go-to options as they were easily accessible for our community. For our entrepreneurs, we ran weekly classes that taught them to adapt to online selling and leveraging on existing delivery services. Following this, we too shared with them how they could run a WhatsApp business while giving a few tips on digital marketing and basic poster designing. Besides that, during the Ramadan month, we kickstarted the Kedai Kita Lah initiative to consolidate all meaningful businesses on one platform to allow people to support these small businesses.
As for our women support group, our team psychologist, Nelavathi Marimuthu, she planned out weekly emotional well being modules to help the women from different aspects such as emotional management, parenting strategy, developing self confidence and other related topics. For every session, almost 100% of the participants mentioned that they have found it beneficial and could practice what they learned in their daily lives to better cope with the current situation. Similarly, participants would receive care packs for participating as an encouragement for their fighting spirit to adapt to the new changes.
We have seen how our communities started to adapt and change. Our programs work and it is a sustainable way of empowering them to be sustainable. It’s been almost three months and our next step is to teach our communities to adapt to the new normal, to focus on Life after Covid-19 and that it’s possible to thrive even when things are difficult.
We are always looking for interested companies to partner us to run sustainable charitable programs. For partnership opportunities, do reach out to may.wong@taylors.edu.my.
This is a mark to show how we’re ready to take control of the new normal situation and aim to impact communities even more.
