THIS SITE gives viewers a glimpse of the beautiful but unsung parts of Malaysia. As a social aid movement, fund generated from activities and adverts helps sustain OO’s operational cost and fund community projects in the Malaysian countryside.
OO is a nominee of 2008's Geotourism Award organized by National Geographic and Ashoka Changemakers. The award identifies and recognises organization that enhances the geographical character of a place: its environment, heritage, culture, aesthetics, and the well-being of its residents.
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Voluntary simplicity is living a life that is outwardly simple but inwardly rich. With less consumerism lifestyle, our ecological resource suffers less impact.
Philanthropy
Is it so small a thing
To have enjoy’d the sun,
To have lived in the spring,
To have loved, to have thought, to have done…
- Matthew Arnold
If you have used children clothes or towels for age 1-12 years old, don’t throw them away. Put everything in a parcel and send it to us. We make regular trips into Orang Asli villages and we will gladly distribute the clothes to the families.
In Malaysia, kids clothes are expensive and most Orang Asli children wear hand-down clothes from their elder siblings. After a few years, clothes become thin and nights in the rainforest can get pretty cold, especially after a downpour. Because of this, children are prone to catching colds and some progressed into fevers.
For most of us, a short hop to the nearest clinic is enough to see our kids up and well again. It’s not that easy in jungle fringed villages. First of all, these families are poor and it’s difficult to cough up some cash for doctors and medicines. Their priority is putting food on the table. Secondly, a sick child has to walk or travel for miles to the closest town for medical attention. This also means lost of income for the parents who have to take the child to the clinic. When fevers and high temperature are not remedied fast enough, some children end up brain damaged. This is a sad situation.
A little gesture like helping them keep warm goes a long way.
Right - Barely out of her own childhood, a young girl has to take on the role of a mother. When parents go to work, the eldest child usually has a few younger siblings to keep her on her toes the whole day. When this happens, she’ll miss the distribution process. We have to keep a look out for unfortunate cases like these.
The pain and gain of aid work
The truth is bitter sweet. Doing community aid work isn’t sprinkled with fanfare and glitz like what you read in the news, especially in hidden sides of Malaysia.
The trouble with learning from experience is that the test comes first and the lesson afterwards.
When people ask how successful is our program, we have no answer. Things are too fuzzy in the outskirt. A person’s meat could be another’s poison. For example, we used to donate canned food to poor families but we found out smallholder grocery stores had their sales of canned food reduced because of our act. Also, we do not possess the fund to help everyone in the village and so we occasionally ruffle some feathers unknowingly, no matter how good our intentions are. Poor people can also forget manners when it comes to survival. It can be tough when villagers argue among themselves on who gets what. We don’t want to judge or blame them. Reality hits very hard when one is living in poverty. There’s no where to hide or seek solace - unlike most of us, we have Starbucks.
Simply put, striking a balance is hard, measuring success even harder. Helping people make quantum leap from Stone Age to the 21st century is anything but easy. We take things as it comes along and learn from our mistakes. When villagers are glad to see us again and greet us warmly, we take it as mission accomplished.
We are not the brightest crayon in the box but we hope to bridge hidden communities with urbanites.
We bet there are more organizations out there doing things better than us. In a way, we hope it would help inspire other people around the globe to see that one need not be rich, well-connected or tied to any organization to help the poor or needy. Everyone can be a self-starter and contribute to humanity in their own small ways.
And puh-leease, don’t ask us about expansion plan - there isn’t any. We believe that being small is good as it gives OO the flexibility and personal attention needed.
Aborigines being sidelined by progress aren’t exclusive to Malaysia. We are sure many countries are facing the same predicament. Sad but true, democracy feeds on majority vote. In most part of the world, aborigines are minority and conveniently forgotten.
Going the distance
Read examples of social & volunteering programs pieced together by OO …
1. Mont Kiara International School KL charity trek
2. Danish family weekend charity drive
3. Genting Resorts Berhad’s sponsorship of towels
4. Blogger donates soccer balls