SHTLM raise RM8, 000 for Orang Asli Community through Project E.P.I.C

70 students from various diploma programmes (Hotel Management, Culinary Arts, Events Management and Tourism Management) of the School of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Management (SHTLM), Sunway University, raised RM8, 000 for the Orang Asli Community through the Project E.P.I.C recently.

Project leaders and members of Project E.P.I.C pose with the cheque worth RM8,000.

Project E.P.I.C, an acronym for Extraordinary People Impacting Community is an outreach programme that is focused on improving plight of the indigenous people in Malaysia, specifically the orang asli community.

The SHTLM students saw this as an opportunity to be involved and made a contribution by organizing ‘The Project Go Green’. The project was aimed at raising funds for the community through a bazaar. Students sold food and t-shirts to earn funds for the project. This also allowed them to exercise their culinary skills as they prepared various foods for staff and students to indulge in. Desserts were also prepared to entice the crowd they managed to draw.

Johnson Oei and Ms. Anisha Chai with project leaders comprising Sunway University SHTLM students.

Students learnt to work together with each other and other course mates in raising as much funds as they could for a good course.

An example of the house that will be built by Project EPIC with the contributions from SHTLM.

John-Son Oei, a leading member of Growing Emerging Leaders (GEL) and coordinator of Project EPIC expressed gratitude to the SHTLM students for their kind contribution. He said “I am proud that youths today care about the community and are willing to be involved by assisting those who are in-need”.

Orang asli community with volunteers in front of their newly built prototype house.

The latest assignment by Project EPIC is the building of houses for the orang asli community in order to improve their living standards. The houses will be equipped with electricity facilities through solar technology and rain water filtration system. The RM 8,000 will be used towards this project.