COMMUNITY SERVICE INITIATIVE 


Community Service is a form of service learning. Service learning is basically using curriculum to help foster a sense of care and concern among students for their community and the world at large. This can be your village, an orphanage or a distant dying species. In the process of recognizing and taking steps to meet the needs of others, we will enhance our creative, critical and reflective skills. More importantly this module will help develop your personal and social responsibility. We will learn through participating in a service experience and you will have the opportunity to use your skills and knowledge in real-life situations. We will be exposed to community needs and experience caring for another person and learn about the resources available to people for revitalizing their communities. Finally, we will have the opportunity to develop basic knowledge and skills in community service strategies, tactics, and techniques, including the art of volunteerism.

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In this project, our group of 10 was in charging in outdoor duties and we decided to visit Kompleks Penyayang Bakti ( Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat Malaysia) located in Bandar Sri Damansara for community service and social service career exploration. The special thing about our group is we all is female doing the hard work for outdoor duties, and we had prove the power of girls! Because everything boy can do, girl do better. However, in the following I will explain every progress of designing outdoor furniture which done by our group.
   

STEP 1: Idea discussion

Just like other group projects, we started from sharing idea and discussing what should we design for them.  Everyone of us suggest one idea and we put it in power point slide for idea presentation. For me, I comes out with the idea of designing a circular hexagon bench with planter liner. The function of this bench (12 person ) is created with back rest and comfortable seating area. Another spacial thing is the planter can built in the middle of the bench to let them plant their favorite flowers. The problem of my idea is we have to spend more time in Taylor's workshop and probably will out of the budget. In the final discussion, we decided to design two outdoor funiture which is an outdoor brick bench and recycle useless bottle for beautiful planter.