Projects for Happiness is an initiative by Khind Starfish Foundation for all undergraduates in Malaysia to design grassroots projects since year 2014 – anywhere in Malaysia – which promote happiness and address the root cause of poverty and poor education. The Foundation encourages applicants to use their creativity to design projects and employ innovative techniques for engaging project participants in ways that focus on Education, Helping Underprivileged Community, Arts & Culture, Environmental Protection, Animal Welfare and Racial Harmony.
The Foundation hopes to encourage student initiative, innovation and entrepreneurship by finding creative ways of helping to uplift the lives of those who are socio economically challenged through sustainable community initiatives. The overall program is intended to be nationwide in scope and impact. They believe that youth, leaders of today, ought to be challenged to ‘think about giving back to society’ in their own way.
Objectives
- To organize, carry out and support schemes for the relief of poverty, distress and human suffering, improvement of the standard of human life and treatment of sickness, diseases, mental or physical illness, disorders and disabilities
- To carry out, aid, assist or support schemes to improve living conditions, provide relief to and maintain the well being and improve the welfare of poor, needy, distressed, disadvantaged or deprived communities; and
- To organize, carry out, facilitate or support initiatives or measures in connection with the promotion of culture, arts and heritage.
Funding Information
Through submission by universities and colleges in Malaysia, projects will be selected for funding at a maximum of RM10,000.00 each.
Eligibility Criteria
Undergraduate students at any universities in Malaysia are eligible. Groups of student from the same campus, as well as individual students, may submit proposals.
Application Requirements
- To be considered, a student (or group of students) must prepare a written statement which describes the project (who, what, where, how) including expected outcomes and prospects for the future impact (not to exceed two pages) as well as budget (one separate page).
- All written project proposals, require a heading to include the following: name of the participating institution, name of all student participants, title of project, dates of the projects, location where the project will be performed. Proposals should include preapproval of all involved parties and organizations involved in the project.
- The two page proposal and onepage budget should be submitted electronically to the official website of the Khind Starfish Foundation. Students with queries may direct them to their campus designated official or the supporting team from the foundation.
Selection Criteria
Once the proposal has been selected, the student has to raise minimum of 15% of the total project cost before the fund being awarded.
Note: The initial 15% fund shall be raised from a minimum of 10 persons.
About Khind Starfish Foundation (KSF)
Khind Starfish Foundation (KSF) was established by KHIND HOLDINGS BERHAD (Khind), a publiclisted company on Bursa Malaysia to carry out corporate responsibility (CR) projects and activities of the Khind Group in Malaysia.
Since 1961, KHIND a manufacturer and marketer of consumer and industrial electrical products, has been involved with various charitable and sociallyresponsible initiatives in the country through its group of companies. The establishment of the Khind Starfish Foundation allows the Company and its subsidiaries to better manage all its corporate responsibility initiatives with the aim that it will spark the 'spirit of volunteerism' from within, and also encourage likeminded companies to follow suit in 'giving back' to society.