Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

The Campus Community Engagement (CCE) program is a voluntary initiative by Monash University Malaysia spanning from December 2019 to April 2020. Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the final presentation date was pushed back from February to April 2020. The purpose of the program is to identify an issue/issues at a NGO and combine the talents of multi-disciplinary students to propose a potential solution to said issue.

Our group consists of the three of us, Daniel Goh U-Sheng (School of Information Technology), Wong Keen Ji (School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Psychology) and Aaron Ng Shong Po (School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Psychology), whereby we were placed under the agency called Pertubuhan Keluarga Orang-Orang Bermasalah Pembelajaran (PERKOBP). The General Secretary of PERKOBP, Mr Chng Cheng Hui, was our Field Educator (FE), and the lecturer overseeing us, Dr Goh Pei Hwa from the School of Medicine & Health Sciences who is a Psychology lecturer, was our assigned Academic Advisor (AA). Our FE was in charge of guiding us  at the agency, while our AA was in charge of guiding and advising our research proposal project throughout the program.

Looking back at the start, we lacked the knowledge and capabilities that we had come to discover during the program. Feeling lost with no sense of end goal seemed to have occurred for most periods at the beginning. But despite the uncertainty, we slowly managed to discover our purpose with help from our AA. We managed to structure our activities whereby we would initially screen through all the trainees and finally select the few that were suitable for our main project. By the end of our site visit, we had a considerable amount of qualitative observations which we needed to analyse and support with research. For the following weeks, we started finding research articles and piece everything together. Fortunately, with the help of our AA, we pulled through and have formed what you will be reading here.

What you will see are the steps/phases we underwent throughout the program to collect information, our findings, and the intervention module that we created. So, from the three of us, ENJOY!

- Daniel, Keen Ji & Aaron -