Sunday, June 26, 2011

PROMOSI PROGRAM CINTAI SUNGAI KITA DAN PERKHEMAHAN ANTARABANGSA ....

Help Save Our Environment
Love Your River Programme

Join us in a worthwhile project to bring awareness to the community about the importance of maintaining balance between ourselves and nature. The project is now due to be carried out from 23rd to 25th of June - we apologise for any incon
venience caused by change to previous dates.

LCSP has joined with Pertubuhan Kelab Pendidikan & Kebajikan Puncak to facilitate this programme.

The core activities of cleaning up the Merbok River and planting Bakau along the river banks will take place on Saturday the 25th June.

The programme includes a 3 day camp for 120 multi-ethnic school children, including 10 children from Mount Kiara International School. Apart from fostering goodwill, fraternity and unity, various activities will be carried out to motivate and educa
te the children to love and care for their environment.

Several NGOs and Institutions have promised to provide their expertise and resources to make this programme a success.

We invite sponsors to aid in the success of this project by sponsoring Bakau seedlings at RM10 per seedling (5000 seedlings available), or donations towards the project. All proceeds from this project will be donated to Pertubuhan Kelab Pendidikan dan Kebajikan Puncak.

To find out how to support this event. Please download the pdf file.

Please make cheques payable to "Kelab Pendidikan & Kebajikan Puncak"

( maklumant lanjut promosi di lions club : http://lionssp.org/)

Laporan Kajian Oleh IPGTB -Projek kewarganegaraan : Kempen Kesedaran Hutan Paya Bakau

KERTAS KERJA KAJIAN OLEH IPGTB BERKAITAN HUTAN BAKAU SUNGAI MERBOK Di Pusat Giat Ilmu (Summer Camp), Kampung Sungai Batu Besi, KEDAH DARUL AMAN.

satu projek Kempen Kesedaran Hutan Paya Bakau telah diadakan dengan kerjasama Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM), Kelab Puncak dan Kelab Aktivis Alam Sekitar Kampus IPG Kampus Tuanku Bainun (CARE) di Sungai Batu Besi, Merbok, Kedah sebagai salah satu usaha untuk memelihara dan memulihara ekosistem hutan paya bakau yang semakin diancam oleh kemusnahan.

Persoalan kajian

Apakah kepentingan ekositem hutan paya bakau?
Apakah punca berlakunya kemusnahan di ekosistem hutan paya bakau di Sungai Batu Besi, Merbok, Kedah?
Apakah langkah-langkah yang boleh diambil bagi mengatasi masalah kemusnahan ekosistem hutan paya bakau di Sungai Batu Besi, Merbok, Kedah?

Objektif penganjuran projek

Mewujudkan kesedaran dalam kalangan masyarakat berkenaan kepentingan hutan bakau kepada ekosistem pinggir pantai terutamanya nelayan.
Menarik minat masyarakat untuk terlibat secara aktif dalam aktiviti-aktiviti berkaitan pemeliharaan dan pemuliharaan alam sekitar.
Menyumbang kepada inisiatif masyarakat dalam menangani pemanasan global.
Memelihara memulihara ekosistem hutan bakau melalui aktiviti penanaman semula yang dilaksanakan.

Nota P I S M P
Himpunan nota untuk guru pelatih Program Ijazah Sarjana Muda Perguruan Institut Pendidikan Guru

Laporan Akhbar New Strait Time : the global village...

People:It takes the global village...
BY DAVID LAVOIE

Kedah’s village communities are bettering their lot in life with help from their own. DAVID LAVOIE meets the enigmatic Romli Bakar, whose comm
unity work in his village has inspired several organisations to pitch in to help.
THERE’s an old saying that it takes a village to raise a child. Nowhere is that more true than in Kedah’s Bujang Valley, where a fascinating partnership of village people, university graduates and institutes of higher learning are working together to improve conditions in rural kampung for all, but especially the young.

Always in the middle of this social revolution is a fascinating man, Romli Bakar. Pak Su, as he is known, was born in the village of Bujang, not far from Sungai Petani in Kedah. As a boy, he would have been hard to tell from his friends, but he was different: he had a goal. He did well in school, graduated and became a teacher himself.

It was the beginning of a remarkable career, which saw him eventually become deputy registrar of Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang.

In 1995 he retired, built a house in Kampung Bujang, and settled in to indulge happily in painting, music and his family.

From the house he built, he could look across the fields to where he was born. He was content.

One evening his life changed. Pak Su answered a knock on his door to find 11 village boys looking nervously at him. There was a long silence during which he examined each and saw in them himself so many years before. Finally one of them said simply: “Tok Su, please teach us.” To an educator there are no more magical words than these.

Scavenging wood and building materials, he and the boys built a large open-air classroom behind his house. Each day the boys would come to him after school to be tutored, away from the crowded, hot conditions of their own small homes.

More and more children came, and so did their parents.

Pak Su smiles as he tells me that he and his helpers have now tutored hundreds of children, more than half of them girls.

Once started, he could not stop. Everywhere he looked he saw the hardships suffered by the people of the kampung and, in spite of his age and desire to slow down, he could not.

Always there’s something more to do. And Pak Su refuses to believe that change cannot happen; he lives in a world of “yes we can!” With USM sponsorship, he has helped establish an environmental centre to educate local people and visitors about the delicate ecosystems of the mangrove swamps, he has facilitated health programmes for the villagers, and is constructing, mostly with salvaged materials, a new community centre in Kampung Bujang where youth can learn about such things as computers while their parents are still working long hours often away from the community.
In this project and many others, Pak Su is enormously aided by the membership of Kelab Puncak, or Peak Club.

Kelab Puncak (kelabpuncak.blogspot.com) is a vital force in the area.

With a membership of more than 100, the club has become a vigorous force for change.

Its purposes are simple and noble: to help eradicate poverty through education, to help environmental conservation efforts and to identify economic activities of benefit to the parents of children who are highly motivated toward learning so that they can pursue higher education.

It is the nature of the people of Kedah that, once they have benefited from these purposes, they return as adults to help others reach the same success.

Typical is the story of Hafis Ishak of Kampung Belau Merbok.

This young man is the son of a local farmer, Ishak Saad, who, with incredible determination and lots of hard work, raised his crops and gathered roots, herbs and medicinal plants in the jungle so that he could send five of his children, four boys, including Hafis, and one girl, to university.

Now Hafis, on top of working his full-time job, runs his on tuition centre for the children of his kampung on land donated by his father.

It seems to be in the spirit of so many in Kedah to reach out the hand of partnership to those still living in rural poverty.

The Kelab Puncak, for instance, has some members who are highly educated and some who are not, but everyone contributes to the betterment of the community.

Some contribute labour to communal projects; others, perhaps engineers, electricians or mechanics, have more specialised skills to offer.

One man is responsible for the large village boat donated several years ago by Tun Daim Zainuddin, a former minister of finance, when he heard of Pak Su’s good work.

Several of the most educated members of the club continue the original work of Pak Su offering tutoring in English and Mathematics to the villagers.

Also encouraging is the commitment of institutions of higher learning to similar ends.

A good example is the continuing project of the Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology (AIMST) to improve the health of kampung people.

Volunteer students enter the rural villages to perform physical check-ups and eye examinations.
While some students are performing the examinations, their peers are carefully studying the village for disease vectors such as impure water sources and improper garbage disposal, and teaching villagers how to correct these problems.

They also offer talks on lifestyle choices such as smoking and eating an adequately balanced diet. It is a continuing partnership of benefit to both.

The medical students get practical hands-on experience, and the villagers receive a degree of health care they had never had before.

With the mentorship of Pak Su, Kampung Bujang was adopted as a “university village” by AIMST several years ago.

A project with a somewhat similar philosophy has been undertaken by UiTM Kedah, or Universiti Teknologi Mara.

Associate Professor Dr Maznah Wan Omar explains that the university first became involved with Kampung Hilir and then with four other rural villages — Kampung Sungai Batu Besi, Kampung Bujang, Kampung Pengkalan Kakap and Kampung Belau — in a concerted effort to bring more economic balance to society in Kedah.

In a series of workshops in each locale, volunteer staff, and especially students, have explored how to process, package and market the bananas, tapioca, mussels and prawns harvested by the people of the kampung.

But complicating the effort to help them has been the dilemma that the people of the kampung, by and large, don’t own, use, or even have access to computers, where much of the most current information that could improve their lives is available. Only newspapers are available.

Another facet of the university’s programme is a particular focus on the women of the kampung. A series of workshops helping women to boost their self-confidence is offered.

Typical of the social spirit so alive in Kedah, all these workshops and programmes are run by volunteers from the student body and staff.

In fact it is estimated that about 80 per cent of the students volunteer to help at some point. This is an extraordinarily high level of social commitment.

We are on our way into Kampung Sungai Batu Besi. Pak Su is at the wheel. He has just told me he’s feeling his age a little, and eager to turn his work over to younger hands.

I chuckle to myself. I have heard him say this from time to time for five years now, but I know he will not stop while there is still something to be done for his beloved people of the kampung.

He sighs as he looks at the narrow, rough dirt road leading from a well-maintained four-lane motorway for several kilometres into the kampung.

In both his eyes and mine, it seems a fitting image of the continuing gulf between Kedah’s rich and poor. Yes, much has been done, but there is still a long, hard road ahead.

Romli Bakar (Pak Su) can be reached by email at pusat.giat.ilmu@gmail.com or by post at F636A Kg Bujang, 08100 Bedong, Kedah.
(laporan online NST : http://www.nst.com.my/nst/articles/2010050717432020100507174320/Article/art_print) date : 2010/05/07

Laporan Sinar Harian : USM beri pendidikan alam sekitar

oleh Nurliza Elami

MERBOK - Menyedari kepentingan pendidikan dan pengetahuan dalam pemeliharaan serta pemuliharaan alam sekitar yang perlu diwujudkan dalam kalangan komuniti di Lembah Bujang, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) menganjurkan program Memotivasi Komuniti ke Arah Kelestarian Kempen Kesedaran Kepentingan Pendidikan dan Alam Sekitar, di sini, pada 22 dan 23 Oktober lalu.

Dekan Pusat Pengajian Komunikasi, Profesor Madya Dr Adnan Hussien berkata, pendidikan dan pengetahuan dalam pelbagai aspek kehidupan terutamanya alam sekitar amat penting untuk membentuk masyarakat lestari selain merapatkan jurang antara penduduk kampung dan masyarakat luar.

Menurutnya, pendidikan tentang kepentingan alam sekitar juga penting kepada masyarakat kerana alam sekitar menjanjikan sumber ekonomi yang lumayan kepada manusia, kemusnahannya akan merugikan generasi masa depan.

“Pendidikan merupakan aset paling penting dan amat berharga dalam diri setiap insan tanpa mengira peringkat umur kerana melalui pendidikan masyarakat dapat mengubah kehidupan diri sendiri, keluarga, masyarakat dan ekonomi negara di samping dapat meningkatkan kualiti dan taraf hidup.

“Alam sekitar menjanjikan sumber ekonomi yang lumayan kepada manusia sekiranya dimanfaatkan d
engan cara yang betul,” katanya.

Dr Adnan berkata, program yang dilihat penting mendorong penuntut Sarjana Komunikasi (Komunikasi Sains dan Alam Sekitar) Pusat Pengajian Komunikasi, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) untuk menganjurkan program ini dengan pelbagai aktiviti kempen bersama komuniti setempat.

Sementara itu, Penaung Kelab Pendidikan dan Kebajikan Puncak, Romli Bakar berkata, dia turut menyanjung usaha Pusat Pengajian Komunikasi dan 3C-BJIM, USM kerana berjaya menganjurkan program itu bersama penduduk kampung.

“Saya berharap agar program seperti ini dapat menarik lebih banyak penyertaan dari pelbagai pihak pada masa akan datang bagi menambahkan pengetahuan kepada penduduk kampung di samping mengeratkan silaturahim demi kebaikan bersama.

“Dengan adanya program ini juga, akan ada pihak yang prihatin dengan masalah serta kekurangan yang terdapat di kampung ini yang selama ini menjadi salah satu faktor penghalang untuk anak-anak muda berjaya dalam pelajaran mereka,” katanya.

Lembah Bujang dijadikan destinasi program ini sebagai rentetan daripada pemilihan Lembah Bujang sebagai projek utama oleh Menteri Pengajian Tinggi, Datuk Seri Khaled Nordin ketika merasmikan buku Reaching Out..Making The Difference dan University Community Engagement di USM.

(Sinar Harian, 29 Oktober 2010, ms U28, Sekolah)
http://www.usm.my/index.php/ms/kenali-usm/arkib-berita/67-papercutting-/7224-usm-beri-pendidikan-alam-sekitar.html

Laporan Akhbar Sinar Harian/Merbok Times : Makmal Komputer

Mohon bantuan siapkan makmal komputer

MERBOK - Kelab Pendidikan dan Kebajikan Puncak Lembah Bujang Merbok Cawangan Kampung Belau (Kelab Belau) memohon sumbangan orang ramai untuk menghulurkan bantuan kewangan dalam usaha menjayakan Projek Mini Makmal Komputer dan Mini Perpustakaan yang sedang diusahakan mereka.


Pengerusinya, Hafis Md Ishak berkata, peruntukkan untuk membina mini komputer dan mini perpustakaan bagi kegunaan pelajar di Kampung Belau itu adalah sebanyak RM10,200 dan setakat ini mereka telah menjalankan proses pembinaan sebuah bilik makmal komputer dan sebuah bilik mini perpustakaan dengan wang yang terkumpul hasil sumbangan orang ramai dan orang perseorangan.

Menurutnya, wang terkumpul setakat ini adalah sebanyak RM5,200 sahaja dan pihaknya meneruskan usaha membina dua bilik yang diperlukan untuk menempatkan komputer dan perpustakaan itu di tapak pusat aktiviti Kelab Belau iaitu di Pusat Giat Ilmu Kampung Belau, Merbok.


“Oleh yang demikian kami dengan rendah hati memohon bantuan kewangan sebanyak RM5,000 lagi daripada orang ramai yang sudi menghulurkan bantuan bagi menyiapkan kedua-dua bangunan tersebut.

“Kos ini adalah untuk menampung kos keperluan seperti membeli bata, simen dan pasir dengan kos RM1,600, membeli kayu dan siling dengan kos RM600, membeli bumbung zink dan kayu sebanyak RM 1,400 dan upah kerja adalah sebanyak RM1,600,” katanya ketika ditemui Sinar Harian di Pusat Giat Ilmu Kampung Belau, Merbok.

Hafis berkata, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) telah bermurah hati untuk menyumbangkan sebanyak sepuluh komputer untuk kegunaan Pusat Giat Ilmu Kampung Belau dalam pengajaran dan pembelajaran penggunaan komputer bagi kanak-kanak miskin di kampung ini dan segala pengurusan dan pentadbiran makmal tersebut akan dilaksanakan oleh kelab.

Menurutnya, cadangan pembinaan mini makmal komputer dan mini perpustakaan ini adalah berikutan keperluan pelajar tuisyen di Pusat Giat Ilmu Kampung Belau ini yang terdiri daripada pelajar kampung dan kurang berkemampuan untuk mendapatkan kelas tuisyen daripada pihak luar.

“Mereka merupakan anak jati kampung ini serta kampung sekitar dan berdasarkan situasi semasa, pihak kelab mengambil inisiatif ini untuk membina mini makmal komputer dan mini perpustakaan dalam usaha untuk memenuhi keperluan pelajar kelas tuisyen di sini.

“Selama ini kami hanya menggunakan barangan terpakai untuk tujuan itu,” katanya.

Dalam perkembangan lain, Kelab Belau adalah sebuah kelab yang melaksanakan aktiviti termasuk kelas tuisyen percuma, katanya.

Menurutnya, usaha yang dilakukan pihak kelab adalah bagi membolehkan remaja di sini dapat meningkatkan taraf pendidikan mereka setanding dengan pelajar di bandar.

Selain itu, katanya, pihak kelab juga menjalankan aktiviti lain untuk belia dan remaja termasuk sukan dan riadah.

Kepada sesiapa yang sudi menghulurkan bantuan boleh menyalurkan sumbangan melalui akaun Maybank atas nama Pertubuhan Kelab Pendidikan Dan Kebajikan Puncak Lembah Bujang Merbok bernombor 152189021182 atau menghubungi Hafis di talian 019-5100539.

(Sumber: Sinar Harian,14 October, 2009)
rujukan : http://merboktimes.blogspot.com/2009_10_14_archive.html
laporan lama, baru terjumpa kat internet.
terima kasih merbok times yang turut melaporkan berita tersebut dulu.

LAPORAN AKHBAR UTUSAN MALAYSIA : PROGRAM UPSR LALU

Program motivasi UPSR

MERBOK 4 Julai – Banjir kilat di tempat tuisyen dan bekalan elektrik terputus akibat pokok tumbang tidak menjejaskan semangat murid-murid tahun lima dan enam di Mukim Bujang untuk mengikuti Program Khidmat Masyarakat Dalam Konteks Pendidikan oleh pensyarah Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) di sini baru-baru ini.


Murid-murid bersama ibu bapa mereka bergambar kenangan dengan pensyarah UTeM yang terlibat dalam projek kemasyarakatan di Mukim Bujang, Merbok, Kedah baru-baru ini

Empat Pensyarah tersebut ialah Profesor Dr. Md. Dan Palil, Tajul Arifin Abdullah, Saifudin Hafiz Yahaya dan Abd. Halim Hakim dari Jabatan Reka Bentuk Pembuatan Fakuti Kejuruteraan Pembuatan (FKP) UTeM.

Menurut Md. Dan, pengisian utama program kemasyarakatan itu adalah untuk meningkatkan aras motivasi murid-murid di kampung berkenaan.

Di samping itu, katanya, anak-anak petani dan nelayan ini juga didedahkan dengan teknik menjawab soalan Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah rendah (UPSR) untuk mata pelajaran Sains dan Matematik.

“Malangnya sesi pengajaran menggunakan komputer riba dan pemancar LED terpaksa diganti dengan papan hitam sahaja kerana bekalan elektrik terputus,” jelas beliau.

Tajul Arifin berkata: ‘‘Kami mahu membantu meningkatkan taraf hidup mereka melalui pendidikan.’’

Program dianjurkan Kelab Puncak iaitu sebuah pertubuhan bukan kerajaan yang aktif memberikan pendidikan kepada anak-anak kampung yang serba kekurangan di mukim tersebut.

Pengasasnya, Romli Abu Bakar atau lebih mesra dipanggil Tok Su berkata, program kali ini dianjurkan khas untuk para pelajar mendalami subjek Matematik dan Sains.

Romli memberitahu, program bimbingan dan motivasi seperti itu telah diadakan sejak 1996.
( LAPORAN AKHBAR Utusan online :
.http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?dt=0705&pg=pe_03.htm&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Pendidikan&y=2010)

Laporan Akhbar : Sinar Harian

Kelab pendidikan bela anak miskin

MERBOK,KEDAH – Matlamat utama Kelab Pendidikan dan Kebajikan Puncak ialah membasmi kemiskinan melalui sumbangan pendidikan selain memelihara serta memulihara alam sekitar khususnya hutan paya bakau.

Pengasas kelab, Romli Bakar berkata, setakat ini kelab berkenaan yang mula ditubuhkan pada 1996 sudah melahirkan lebih 200 graduan dalam pelbagai bidang selain dua penuntut berjaya melanjutkan pengajian ke luar negara dalam bidang profesional.

Menurutnya, kelab berkenaan memberi tuisyen kepada pelajar miskin di tiga pusat utama iaitu Kampung Bujang, Kampung Sungai Batu Besi dan Kampung Belau, Merbok.

“Kami mengadakan kelas tambahan secara sukarela kepada 172 anak miskin dari Tahun Satu hingga Tingkatan Enam terutama dalam matapelajaran Bahasa Inggeris dan Matematik bertujuan mengurangkan tahap kemunduran di samping meningkatkan keyakinan mereka menerusi kecemerlangan pendidikan,” katanya kepada Sinar Harian

Beliau berkata demikian ketika mengadakan program Kesedaran dan Penanaman Semula Bakau anjuran Sahabat Alam Malaysia Pulau Pinang sempena Hari Biodiversiti Sedunia yang disambut 22 Mei lalu.

Romli berkata, kelab itu menerima sumbangan RM72,500 daripada CIMB Islamic Bank yang digunakan untuk membela anak miskin dan mengekalkan hutan paya bakau.

“Dalam usaha mengekalkan hutan paya bakau, kita mempunyai semaian bakau sendiri yang kini mempunyai 67,000 anak bakau di mana dengan jualan anak pokok ini, dana yang dikumpul dapat digunakan ke arah pembangunan anak miskin,” katanya.

Selain itu, katanya, projek tapak semaian di Kampung Sungai Batu Besi itu ternyata mampu meningkatkan taraf hidup lima keluarga miskin yang bekerja dengannya.

Menurutnya, hasratnya hanya satu iaitu mewujudkan satu masyarakat bestari melalui pendidikan di samping menekankan sikap sayangkan alam sekitar kepada setiap ahli yang terdiri daripada golongan miskin.

Sementara itu, beliau berkata, usaha yang dijalankan kelab berkenaan mendapat sokongan padu dari badan bukan kerajaan (NGO) lain termasuk Kelab Lions, Sungai Petani Sports Club, Hospital Pakar Metro, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Universiti Teknologi Melaka serta institusi kerajaan lain.
(laporan Sinar Harian : http://www.sinarharian.com.my/sh/utr/content/story9119633.asp )

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