HISTORY 2011-2016
CTI was formerly a department called Urban Community Development (UCD) under Community Excel Services (CES), which started in 2011. Since September 2016, with the restructuring of CES, this work became independent from CES and was moved to be under Community Transformation Initiative Berhad (CTI), with our first office in Kelana Jaya. In July 2018 we moved nearer to the community we are serving at Section 8 PPR, Kota Damansara,
setting up our Pusat Kommuniti CTI, five mins away from the PPR flats.
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Building Bridges
From 2011 we started to build bridges with the urban poor community at PPR Kota Damansara to foster an atmosphere of care, trust and mutual respect by introducing programmes like free mobile medical clinics, clown shows, social-medical visitations and drum-circles. Over 60 children from the PPR flats have not only learnt drumming skills but also gained confidence and self-esteem as they participated in the various community and company events. We also partner with other groups to provide prevention/youth-at-risk programs in areas of health/safety awareness, law and vices, and leadership camps.
Community Financial Literacy Class & Financial Literacy Programme
Our first Community Financial Literacy Class took off in March 2012, where 40 women from poor households took this ONE STEP forward towards economic stability, by participating in our 10-month Financial Literacy Programme (in collaboration with Malaysian CARE, local government & other NGOs). Often stuck in a poverty cycle to balance their meagre income and put food on the table, many of these poor families fall prey to loan sharks and quick get-rich schemes. In Level 1, they learn the value of money, how to budget, develop good financial habits, overcome debts and learn to save. FLP level 2 is more focused on building self-resilience and business skills. From 2012 to 2015, we ran 2 batches of FLP1 and FLP2 classes, with 78 graduans in FLP1 and 16 in FLP2.
As we encounter families in crisis e.g. domestic violence, medical emergencies and children severely neglected, we responded in casework visitations and interventions. We also seek to understand root issues which will help us plan for future preventive and advocacy programs. This work is carried on till today.
Besides giving social-medical support to the community, we also acts as a channel to help access government
aid for our participants in the form of small business grants (1Azam Kerja). It is our hope that this will lead to future opportunities in micro-enterprise and cooperatives, and eventually out of the poverty cycle.
In 2014 we rented a flat to serve as a sewing training center, in partnership with The Batik Boutique, a Social Enterprise, to empower urban poor women as artisans. In June 2017, we gave up this place due to expansion to a bigger premise in order to train for more seamstresses and to meet increased demand.
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FROM YEAR 2012
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Partnership with Generasi Gemilang & Prudential Foundation
In Feb 2016 we started PRUKASIH (in partnership with Yayasan Generasi Gemilang and Prudential Assurance Malaysia Berhad (PAMB) with the aim to build financial resilience of urban poor families in PPR KD, via income protection against sickness, accidents and death. At the PruKasih Distributor day December 2017, CTI was awarded 2 Certificates of Excellence, in recognition of “The Most Dedicated Distributor” and “The Most Inspiring Distributor”. At the end of 2018, we have covered 62.7% households, and helped disburse RM257,384 as claims to 112 residents in need.
IMPAK (Ibubapa Memastikan Peningkatan Akademik Anak)
In August 2016 we started the IMPAK (Ibubapa Memastikan Peningkatan Akademik Anak) programme. The purpose of this programme is to tackle the drop-out rate by enabling parents to understand their role and influence in their children’s learning, and to learn the necessary techniques in order to improve their children’s academic skills. This program is initiated by the GBM coalition, adopted from Tamil Foundation, facilitated by IKRAM. This is a pilot project, first-ever in a PPR
community, our role was to facilitate and mobilise the community to attend the trainings. One of our staff, Nicole was instrumental in helping to develop the IMPAK Kids Master Curriculum, which was used at IMPAK 2.0.
The vision was “An educated person is a person growing with knowledge and stature”, and the Mission was to motivate and encourage every child to love study and continue learning.After the IMPAK Planning Meeting on 27th Feb 2018,
it was decided that they will not continue with PPR KD but to focus on training facilitators for Chinese and Malay IMPAK.
IMPAK at PPR KD was to be handed over to IKRAM PJ, who will have a choice to choose to do IMPAK at any community/school in PJ area.
Sayang Kanak-Kanak (SKK)
Realising the need for better child-care, we explored this Sayang Kanak-Kanak (SKK) program, an informal training of childcare providers in the community, to provide better and safer childcare to children ages 0-4. Since we started our informal community engagement in 2011, we continue to build bridges and work with PPR Resident Association in more participatory and collaborative activities.
Besides giving social-medical support to the community, we also acts as a channel to help access government
aid for our participants in the form of small business grants (1Azam Kerja). It is our hope that this will lead to future opportunities in micro-enterprise and cooperatives, and eventually out of the poverty cycle.
In 2014 we rented a flat to serve as a sewing training center, in partnership with The Batik Boutique, a Social Enterprise, to empower urban poor women as artisans. In June 2017, we gave up this place due to expansion to a bigger premise in order to train for more seamstresses and to meet increased demand.
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YEAR 2016 ONWARD