GRADUATE SUCCESS ATTRIBUTE

2nd November 2018

One of the event under End Homelessness project handled by students from section 19 of Graduate Success Attribute  subject.

INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this report is to explain about our group project which is “Marching to End Homelessness”. Our main goal is to let more people know more about the homeless problem that had been increasing lately. Our task is to organise a fun run event from the scratch.

This program was held at N28a, Faculty of Computing on 2 November 2018. The event started at 7.00 am. Our main targets are the students of UTM to join it as it is easier for us to handle the event since this is the first time we handle such a big event.

OBJECTIVES

The objectives of this program are, firstly, to increase the awareness among the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia’s student about the homelessness in our country, specifically in Johor. This objective had been achieved during our last session with the participants where we presented a video that explain the homeless. We also managed to do a ‘Question and Answer’ session with the participants regarding the homeless matters.

Secondly, our goal is to change the student perceptive towards the homeless people. This is because most people will think that the homeless ones are people who are poor, was abandoned by their family and all the negatives things. But, most of these people are actually looking for a job in Singapore but could not get one and this leads them to become homeless. Moreover, a few of the homeless people managed to get job in Singapore but they did not have any place to stay as they only have two to three hours to rest. After the video session, we also managed to explain more about the homeless people.

Lastly, we want to encourage the participants to have a healthy lifestyle while having fun by joining this event. This can help them to become fit and make them realize that being healthy is really important in our life. We know there are some students are having such a really low-awareness of their health, so we encourage them to join this event by making it as a free-registration marching event and give free t-shirt to each of the participants.