Clickers Startup in KL

Congratulations to all the Clickers who joined the Click! Startup Workshop in KL. Over 50 Clickers and their friends came together to startup 7 different ventures including: helping the aged; performing arts for disadvantaged youth; helping single mothers; Kids Helping Kids; helping teenagers with unwanted pregnancies; cultural programs for down syndrome youth; and raising awareness of the importance of sound money management.

In only 3 hours, these amazing youth developed their action plans and budgets for projects designed to give back to their community in the spirit of social responsibility.

Following the presentations to a panel including Ms. Jennifer Stout, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State visiting from Washington DC, the Malaysian-American Alumni Partnership announced the extension of micro-finance soft loans to each group in the amount of RM 200 to help get these ventures off the ground.

Thanks to all who participated, including 2 Clickers from Terengganu and 3 alumni who traveled from Penang.

We are so proud of all of you.

Stay tuned for details on future Click! Startup Workshops in Kelantan, Terengganu and other cities across Malaysia.

Come Join Click! Startup in KL - Dec. 6th

Universiti Tun Abdul Razak, Capital Square, Block C & D,

No. 8, Jalan Munshi Abdullah, 50100 Kuala Lumpur

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Were you inspired by the Click! Camp? Are you now kept awake at night thinking of how you can give back to your community? Do you want to learn about starting your own project or business to help you improve your community?

Come join the Click! StartUp!! Youth Social Venture Workshop -- a follow-on program to the highly successful Click! Camp.

The Click! StartUp!! Workshop on December 6th will equip youth leaders with the basics of starting up a project which will have a positive social benefit to their community.

Come join this Workshop and stand a chance to obtain a soft loan of between RM200-RM500 to kick-start your project and turn your ideas of giving back into reality.

The Workshop is a whole day workshop and will also include a presentation to a panel headed by the US Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Ms. Judith McHale. Ms. McHale is the former President and CEO of Discovery Communications, the parent company of the Discovery Channel.

Participant’s meals, materials and transportation to and from and throughout the program will be provided.

The workshop will be conducted by youth facilitators and will be supported by the Malaysian-American Alumni Partnership (MAAP) whose members comprise participants of the various US Embassy exchange programs.

Click here to enlarge details on the program as well as how to register.

Click here to see Click! Startup Workshop Agenda

Click here to download the registration and parental consent form.

To Register for Click! Startup......

1. Call Tini at 016-2112602 or Nurul at 016-2196312 or email tini@warisanglobal.com or nuruln@warisanglobal.com to book a spot by Wednesday, 1st December 2010.

2. Complete the parental consent and release form attached. Bring the form along with you when you come. If you do not have the completed form with you, you will not be allowed to join the Workshop.

3. Think of a creative, innovative and beneficial idea for a project or business that will benefit your community.

4. You are eligible to join this Workshop if you are :

o A Click! Camp participant OR

o An ELS Access English Microscholarship program student in Selangor OR

o Malaysian youth below the age of 17 on the date of the Workshop, preferably those who are active as a youth leader in their community

SPACE IS LIMITED SO PLEASE SIGN UP SOON

For questions or for more information:

Call Tini at 016-2112602 or Nurul at 016-2196312 or email tini@warisanglobal.com or nuruln@warisanglobal.com

Click! Camp Videos

Check out the new videos highlighting the recent Click! Camp empowering youth leaders from across Malaysia.

Let us know how you like these videos by using the Comments link below.

Don't forget.....More Click! coming to KL on December 6th - it's called "Click! Startup" - a one-day Social Venture Workshop designed to Empower Malaysian Youth Leaders and their friends make an action plan for activities to give back to their communities. It will be full of great surprises. More details coming soon!

SAVE THE DATE - December 6th in KL

You Asked for it.....and We Will Deliver.

We are currently working up the details for a Click! Camp in KL. This will be a one-day event on December 6th which will focus on taking the Clickers to the next level....How to make an action plan to organize you and your Clicker colleagues and friends for community outreach activities in your community.

Check back soon for more details. Coming Soon!

click camp

i love this camp so much. i would like to thank every person in the camp. i hope u all will help me to get in to the youth exchange & study program(yes).thank you......

from,
Melvin.

Giving Thanks

Your favorite Click! Camp Facilitators and Event Staff came together to give thanks for all the teamwork and collaboration at last weekend's 4-day Click! Camp - Alumni for Access.

Everyone enjoyed the American Thanksgiving meal featuring a roast turkey, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie.

Everyone received a personal thank you letter signed by U.S. Ambassador Paul Jones.

Over dinner, the discussion included organizing some more Click! Camps around Malaysia. Stay tuned for some news in the coming days. Do you want more opportunities to Click!?

Clickers in the New Straits Times

All Clicked At This Camp
2010/11/16
By M. Hamzah Jamaludin
The New Straits Times

KUANTAN: Learning English should not be limited to classrooms as some 200 secondary school students discovered in Cherating, near here.

Through a special programme, known as "Click! Camp", the students participated in various community projects that had also helped them improve their grasp of the language. The four-day programme, which ended on Sunday, focused on English language enrichment apart from developing the students' leadership skills and sense of social responsibility.

"It's cool as we were only allowed to communicate in English throughout the programme," said Muhammad Zaim Khairudin from Petaling Jaya.

The Form Three student of SMK La Salle said he was now more confident with his English after partcipating in the programme.

"We are lucky as the facilitators for this programme are the alumni of various exchange programmes between Malaysia and the United States. They understand our problems and know how to make things easier for us," said Zaim, who is the eldest of five siblings.

Some 60 alumni of the US Embassy-sponsored exchange programmes acted as the facilitators in the programme, which was jointly organised by Warisan Global Sdn Bhd and the US Embassy.

The camp also included a training programme for 35 English teachers which was conducted by American English language specialist, Mindy Vesser from Idaho, US.

Muhamad Azri Amir Mazlan of SMK Datuk Ahmad Maher, Kota Baru, Kelantan said it was fun to do all the community services while communicating in English.

"Sometimes we laughed at each other when we used inaccurate words to express our thoughts. But the facilitators were always there to help us find the most appropriate words," said the Form Three student.

The students were also honoured when the US ambassador to Malaysia Paul W. Jones travelled all the way from Kuala Lumpur to join them yesterday.

"I can feel the energy and enthusiasm of all those involved and we will continue with similar programmes in future," said Jones who joined the awareness programme at Cherating turtle sanctuary, English language enrichment event at Chendor kindergarten and repainting of the surau in Kampung Cherating Lama.

Jones said the US Embassy would also assist the Federal and State Governments to organise English learning programmes after it had successfully implemented such a project with the Terengganu state government.

http://www.nst.com.my/nst/articles/22lish/Article#ixzz15Plbz4yP

Keep On Clicking

It's only 24 hours since the Click! Camp ended and we are already hearing from many of you. You miss your new friends. You miss all the partnerships that were started at the Click! Camp. You want to do more good work to help your communities. You want to go on exchange programs.

Now it's time to feel that power in your hearts and minds....and turn that into action. Seize this opportunity now to further develop your leadership skills!

Connect with your group. Connect with your facilitators and start planning what's next.

Again, we are hearing from many of you. What you are telling us is that you want to do more in your communities and want to work with your facilitators and the YES alumni to make it happen.

We want to work with you too.

We welcome you to "Keep on Clicking."

Contact Your Facilitator Soon via Facebook.

A Special Thank You from our Clicker Mogan

...and Thank You Mogan for all the Leadership you displayed at the Click! Camp. Your a great Youth Leader.

P.S.--Mogan stayed up all night making over 50 individualized thank you notes to all the facilitators and organizers.. WOW!

Our New Youth Leaders Make Final Presentations

After a morning of community outreach, some of which was in the rain, the youth and alumni came together for one final session to share their experiences. For many, this was the first time they had ever given back to their communities on this level.

From watching these presentations, it was clear to see the personal growth that everyone made at the Click! Camp.

The Clickers are becoming Leaders. They understand what it means to have a sense of Social Responsibility. And they are ready to give back through Community Outreach.

Finally, they improved their English-language skills as this camp was an opportunity to speak only in English for 4 days.

Let's give everyone a big round of Applause for doing such a Great Job!

Way to go Clickers!

Re-Painting a Local Community Mosque

20 Clickers and 5 Alumni visited the Surau Kampong Cherating Lama to give it a fresh coat of paint. The Village Leaders were overjoyed to see a group of youth from all over Malaysia come by on a Sunday morning to repaint the small community mosque.

The youth and alumni were so excited to give back in this special way. Ambassador Jones made a special trip to join in giving a new look to this Muslim house of worship.

The Ambassador and Malaysian-American Alumni President Faisal Hassan made a donation of food and prayer mats to the community leaders in this small village. Local media also dropped by to cover this community outreach event in the local newspaper.

Before they departed, everyone posed for one big community photo which ended with a big cheer!

Way to Go..... Great Job!

Teaching English to Pre-Schoolers

The Clickers and Alumni dropped by a local community pre-school to teach basic English in the form of games and simple songs. They also conducted story telling and dressed up in costumes such as Sponge Bog Square Pants and Superman. They were joined by Ambassador Jones and his family who were happy to contribute to this outreach to the community.

Following the storytelling, the pre-schoolers were so excited to meet the Ambassador that it was pretty hard to calm them down.

This is a day they won't forget. Thanks to all the Clickers and Alumni that reached out and gave so much of themselves to the Pre-Schoolers.

Way to Go!

Hello To All of My New Friends From Mark

Hello All Clickers, Staff, and Alumni,

It was great to meet all of you this weekend in Cherating. I am far from my home in Lubbock, Texas USA while I am in Malaysia as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar, so it is always great to make some new friends and to see some of my friends in Malaysia again. I had an especially great time with Group #2 during our visit to the Turtle Sanctuary! I look forward to keeping in touch with each of you.

I have been in Malaysia for five months and there are still five more months until it is time for me to go home. If you want to learn more about my adventures in Malaysia you can look at my blog at http://markinmalaysia.blogspot.com/. I will be posting about my trip to Cherating very soon. You can also find me at Facebook under my name- Mark McGinley (if there are multiple Mark McGinleys, then I am the one from Texas Tech University) so I hope that you all want to be my friend.

I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks for helping me to have a great weekend,'

Mark

Dr. Mark A. McGinley

Fulbright Visiting Scholar

University of Malaya

Associate Professor

The Honors College and Department of Biological Sciences

Texas Tech University

mark.mcginley@ttu.edu

I Love the Clickers and the Turtles too!

Hi Clickers. My name is Catherine Jones and I am the wife of Ambassador Jones. I'm so impressed with all the Clickers and the amazing work they did in the communities this morning.

I also fell in with the baby turtles at the Turtle Sanctuary and would love to organize some more Embassy outreach involving American youth supporting the turtle youth in Malaysia.

It's all about youth this weekend and we can't forget about protecting our young turtles and their environment too.

I'm so happy to meet all the Clickers, their teachers and the Amazing Alumni who have all developed so much confidence and leadership ability in such a short time.

My family and I look forward to more partnerships soon.

We'll back to see our turtle friends soon and bring an even bigger group.

Preparing for a Morning of Community Outreach

Early Sunday morning, the Click! Camp Youth joined forces with the Alumni to give back to the local communities in Cherating, Pahang, Malaysia. Ten groups ventured out to Repaint a Mosque, Clean Up the Beach, Teach English to Pre-schoolers, Empower Single Mothers, Care for Baby Turtles at a Turtle Sanctuary, and Teach Village Youth about Social Media.

This was a morning full of Click! Power straight from the heart.

It's hard work. But it feels great giving back to others. Helping others by making the most of our talents and abilities.