Start them young: Fostering Resilient Mindsets Among Underprivileged Children
Researchers have identified ‘resilience’ to be an important factor in positive youth development. The cultivation of resilience means fostering adolescents’ capacity, flexibility, and coping strategies as they face developmental changes and life stresses in order to “bounce back” from difficult life experiences and achieve positive outcomes. Children from low-income families are more vulnerable as parents […]
Training on Participatory Community Engagement Strategies
Development, progress and wellbeing have no meaning – neither are they sustainable – until they are shared by all. But what does it concretely mean and how can such a process be ensured? Participation in development means something more than a mechanical process realised through the application of a set of tools. It is a […]
Launch of the 6th Cruyff Court in Sk Mentuan, Kelantan ⚽!
As part of our partnership with the Johan Cruyff Foundation, on the 22nd of January 2020, we launched the 6th Cruyff Court at Sekolah Kebangsaan Mentuan (SK Mentuan), Kota Bharu in Kelantan. Located about 10km away from the city centre, Kampung Mentuan has a high-density community and no public space is available for children and […]
What is Community Mental Health? (Podcast)
Our work with the B40 community is guided by the Community Based Approach, a multidimensional approach that seeks to provide various services for a community, and one of them is mental health support. In this interview with BFM: The Business Station, our partner SOLS Health’s Managing Director Ellisha Othman, and Head of Community Development, Anita […]
GLC/GLIC Disaster Response Network (GDRN) Come Together to Support the Fight Against Covid-19 | RM40 Million Contribution Thus Far
The Government-Linked Companies (“GLC”) and Government-Linked Investment Companies (“GLIC”) Disaster Response Network (“GDRN”), together with various partners, are working and coordinating together to streamline GLC and GLIC’s support to assist the Ministry of Health (“MoH”) in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The GDRN is managed by a Joint-Secretariat led by Yayasan Hasanah (“YH”) (a foundation […]
Collective GLC/ GLIC Private Sector Contribution Via GDRN at RM 51.5 Million
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia and as on April 2 2020, several Government-Linked Companies (“GLC”), Government-Linked Investment Companies (“GLIC”) and the private sector have collectively contributed RM 51.5 million to GLC/GLIC Disaster Response Network (GDRN). Their contributions are being used to support the Ministry of Health (“MoH”) in a coordinated and streamlined […]
Hasanah Special Grant 2020 (provision in response to Covid-19 outbreak)
Yayasan Hasanah, in partnership with the Ministry of Finance Malaysia, and as part of the Economic Stimulus 2020, is launching a special grant – Hasanah Special Grant (HSG) 2020 to support social programs to improve the quality of life of the targeted groups such as the “poor families” or the bottom 40 communities including vulnerable […]
Treasure Our Peat Forest
The sweltering heat that year in 2013 chased people away to seek refuge in their homes. Those who were outdoors looked for shaded areas as their clothes were drenched in sweat, leaving dark patches on the colourful bright cloth. Next to the ELITE highway is the Kuala North Langat Forest Reserve (KLNFR), where animals were […]
Collaborative Partnerships and Capacity Building Programmes are Key to support B40 communities
The recently revised poverty line by the Malaysian government has shown an increase of households from 17,000 to 405,000 that falls under the Absolute Poverty bracket (DOS 2020, Khazanah Research Institute calculations). Set against the backdrop of COVID-19 which has detrimentally affected global economies, livelihoods are at stakes and the B40 communities especially are pushed further […]
Working During A Pandemic – Part 1
The experience of working during a pandemic affects us differently. For office workers, companies have no other choice but to embrace the reality (and efficiency!) of working from home. For some, their jobs are at stake or on hold because physical attendance is required, and the latter is what happened to some of Hasanah’s partners. […]