COMMUNITY SERVICE INITIATIVE (UCM60102)

1.0 Acknowledgement

The completion of this activities under Community Service Module would not have been possible without the kind support and assistance of many individuals whose names could not all be enumerated. Their contributions are sincerely appreciated and gratefully acknowledged. However, I would like to express my sincerest gratitude particularly to the following:

First and foremost, the completion of this orphanage event is impossible without the guidance and support from my lecturer, Ms. Tay Shir Men. Her continuous supervision, provides necessary information, giving timely suggestions towards the orphanage event, and helps to motivate me in completing this valuable activity.

I would also like to express my utmost gratitude to my colleagues and friends who worked by my side in the university and offered me their strength and support at difficult times. Last but not least, many thanks to Taylor’s University for sharing their support and sponsorship. Without their kind help, this event would not be successfully completed.  Thank you.


2.0 MODULE SYNOPSIS

This module has been designed to help foster of sense of care and concern among us for our community, environment and the world at large. This module will help develop us’ sense of personal and social responsibility. We will learn through participating in a community service experience and will have the opportunity to use their skills and knowledge in real-life situations.


3.0 MODULE OBJECTIVES

1) To inculcate a sense of Social Responsibility.
2) To promote the culture of caring and respect towards all members of society.
3) To make them responsible citizens of this country.
4) To understand the community around them.
5) To understand themselves in relation to their community


4.0 LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon successful completion of this course, we should be able to:

1) Develop relevant communication skills for collaborative work with community/society.and/or to work in a career that will make contributions to society.
2) Develop a holistic awareness of the variety of problems (e.g. the environment, poverty, social discrimination) that call for action; critically analyze how such problems should be approached and how to solve them scientifically.
3) Apply information management skills and strengthen their lifelong academic learning.
4) Develop in themselves a strong sense of social responsibility and be able to portray leadership qualities and being able to work effectively as a team.


5.0 KNOWLEDGE I GAINED IN THIS MODULE:


5.1 Lifelong Learning

This module required us to be more independent and able to extract the information from Ti-Rattana Welfare Society that we have visited. For me, I have learnt how to propose activity that link to our field which is construction that help the children to enhance their vision for their future career. During the activities, I am be nominated as one of the game master therefore I am responsible to assigned task to all members in order to achieve the goal of our community service project. Throughout the activity, I also learnt to allocate each of the tasks in order to derive the completion date of our activities as we are only given 10 weeks of preparation.

5.2 Thinking and Problem Solving Skills

Thinking and problem solving skills are gained during the discussion with my group member in order to provide most effective idea in proposing our project.

5.3 Communication skills

During the discussion session, we have communicated with our lecturer in order to provide a more viability of our propose idea towards the improvement of the gaming activities to the children. Throughout the communication, we have actually learnt the things that we need to concern in order to prevent any risk or unforeseen circumstances that may cause our project to be non-viable.

5.4 Interpersonal skills

I am able to practice leadership skills, especially during the initial stage of ours project. I have learnt how to distribute the assignment workload to my team member to carry out the project in order to achieve the objective of this project which is to create value for the orphan children future career.

In conclusion, learning by taking new task is crucial in pursuing my career as Project Management in the construction field. As in the future, various unfamiliar tasks will be assigned and it depends on how we take it as a challenge to improve our career.