Persatuan Sahabat Kaum Semai Kuala Lumpur Dan Selangor (PERKAS)

Sunday, 14 February 2016

Persatuan Sahabat Kaum Semai Kuala Lumpur Dan Selangor (PERKAS): Professional MARA college total engagement

Persatuan Sahabat Kaum Semai Kuala Lumpur Dan Selangor (PERKAS): Professional MARA college total engagement: Perhaps, one of the most comprehensive programme ever seen in Pos Betau was done by UK-bound students from MARA Professional College, Bant...

Persatuan Sahabat Kaum Semai Kuala Lumpur Dan Selangor (PERKAS): Teaching good manners to the Semai

Persatuan Sahabat Kaum Semai Kuala Lumpur Dan Selangor (PERKAS): Teaching good manners to the Semai: UiTM remains the top local University to engage themselves with the local Semai every year. Late in December 2015, Business students from t...

Persatuan Sahabat Kaum Semai Kuala Lumpur Dan Selangor (PERKAS): A favourite place to do your CSR

Persatuan Sahabat Kaum Semai Kuala Lumpur Dan Selangor (PERKAS): A favourite place to do your CSR: The basecamp continues to be a favourite destination for students and casual visitors alike. The most recent being the "Rakan Muda&q...

Professional MARA college total engagement

Perhaps, one of the most comprehensive programme ever seen in Pos Betau was done by UK-bound students from MARA Professional College, Banting, Selangor in late 2014. They were there for 3 days, engaging themselves with CSR work, visiting Semai villages, played football and volleyball with them at Kg Simoi Baru, had telematches with the folks at Pos Betau, treated them with BBQ and had a great time engaging themselves with the local Semais. I wish more students could do like what these bright students had done.

Professional Mara College students at Ecolife basecamp.

Students visiting a Semai village

A Semai ritual to rid themselves from evil spirit.

tudents playing soccer with Semai kids.

Volleyball too

One for the album

Students cleaning the surau compound

They also painted the surau

Part of the programme included self defense classes.

Food was 1st class

Telematches with the locals

prizes were given out

Everyone was a winner

Some of the delights served

Students helping out with the BBQ for the folks

Teaching good manners to the Semai

UiTM remains the top local University to engage themselves with the local Semai every year. Late in December 2015, Business students from the main campus in Shah Alam, Selangor came to Pos Betau to teach and educate them about good manners & practises in Islam. They also engaged themselves with the locals in Kg Sentoi with telematches, which were well received by the Semai kids.

Students with the locals at Kg Sentoi.

A favourite place to do your CSR

The basecamp continues to be a favourite destination for students and casual visitors alike. The most recent being the "Rakan Muda" program, whereby youths engaged with the local Semai subtribe and did their deeds by cleaning the basecamp compound, including the Surau.

The surau continues to be the centre where the Semai receives their free Islamic lessons, free breakfast and free lunch - courtesy of Ecolife basecamp, every Tuesday, every week, every year since 2011. They also receives free dry food supply from time to time, as well as used clothes which were distributes around the 18 villages from well wishers.

Free Arabic and Islamic lessons are conducted every Tuesday by volunteers.

A good meal is provided to the Semai after Tuesday class every week- courtesy of the basecamp.

Free food ration to the village folks

Used items from clothes, bags, shoes, toys, etc are distributed to them.

Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Persatuan Sahabat Kaum Semai Kuala Lumpur Dan Selangor (PERKAS): There's no place like home...

Persatuan Sahabat Kaum Semai Kuala Lumpur Dan Selangor (PERKAS): There's no place like home...: Just 16 km in Gombak from the bustling city of Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia's modern capital lies an enclave of the country's Orang Asl...

There's no place like home...

Just 16 km in Gombak from the bustling city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's modern capital lies an enclave of the country's Orang Asli (local tribe), constitutionally the original settlers of the country. Despite massive government assistance in all fields so that they can at least be on par with the rest of the country's ethnic races , they remain the 'jungle people' at heart.

The house of the Gombak village headman

His son at the balcony

The back portion of the house with piped water from a nearby stream

The wild orchid nursery which he cultivated. When it blooms together, it's massively beautiful

His daughters back from preschool classes

Durian. The most famous fruit in Malaysia, and perhaps in S.E. Asia. Durian trees surrounded his house.and you will be served this if it happens to be in season.

A baby monkey. The Orang Asli can keep any wild pet they like without having to obtain a licence - by virtue of its privilege in Malaysia.

The traditional bamboo-and-wooden jungle house of the Tok Batin (tribal headman) is not what you would expect in modern Kuala Lumpur, though most of them has been offered modern concrete houses with electricity and piped water. However, the headman says it is home, and he is comfortable with it and the secondary jungle surrounding his house - at least for the tribe in Gombak. While he is currently building another house - a concrete one about 50 meters away - this one will always be his home.

Sunday, 29 December 2013

Persatuan Sahabat Kaum Semai Kuala Lumpur Dan Selangor (PERKAS): UiTM students field day22-24th Jan, 2013Student...

Persatuan Sahabat Kaum Semai Kuala Lumpur Dan Selangor (PERKAS): UiTM students field day
22-24th Jan, 2013

Student...: UiTM students field day 22-24th Jan, 2013 Students of UiTM's various courses held their leadership get-together at the Ecoliife Bas...

Year of community services

What a year! This year must certainly be the year of community services at RPS Pos Betau. It's great to see the Semai being recognised more and more as part of our Malaysian family. More and more people - individuals, associations, clubs, students - are stepping forward to engage them with various activities, especially community services.

The most prominent of the group must be the clubs from UiTM Shah Alam. They came 3 times (January, June, November) to do community services at 2 different villages in Pos Betau. There are 18 villages in Pos Betau. There were transported by 4WD deep into the jungle, spent the night with the community, cooked for them, feed them, had telematches, painted the surau, and distributed food hampers to the Semai families. And some days were really trying when it rained. But the students did their best in great style. Bravo guys!

Even PLKN students made an ad hoc stop to join the Semai kids to have fun at the Betau river.

We made sure visitors were well feed...

UiTM students painting the Dewan Sri Sewang

Lunch at the verandah of the basecamp

The Semai kids had a great time with UiTM students

The Semai community came out in full force to participate in the telematches organised by UiTM students.

Food hampers were distributed via lorry to the villages

The views in the jungle were simply stunning

Distributing food hampers to the Semai folks

Good work UiTM!

The Tok Batin (in cap) welcoming the students to Pos Lenjang

The surau became the centre of activity in Pos Lenjang

Students helping to dish out meals to the community

A Semai family during meals served by the students

The kitchen prepared meals for breakfast, lunch, dinner non-stop for 2 days and 1 night, manned largely by ever-helpful students.

A typical bamboo house of the Semai.

Distributing food hampers to the community

Food hampers brought smile to the Semai folks

Monetary contribution were also given thru the Tok Batin

Students were transported via 4WD

Students helping to paint the surau, built entirely by public donation.

Semai kids in a telematch

Even their parents took part.

The Semai folks were treated with Lunch, Dinner and breakfast by the students

Another group that came with a big bang (or vroom) was the Sungai Buluh Prison Bikerz Club. They came with nearly 60 bikes of all sizes setting the small village of Pos Betau abuzz with activities. They set up an exhibition booth to show the various activities of the Prison. It was historic event as it was the first time ever an exhibition of such nature was conducted in a village outside KL.

Besides the exhibition, they too came to donate food hampers and used clothes by the lorryload to the Semai community. They had a great time like most visitors at the basecamp, engaging with the Semai community, especially the children with games and joining them for a BBQ session.

If you have plans to do community services, Pos Betau with a Semai population of 3,600 in 18 villages would certainly be ideal. Do contact us anytime.

We wish you a Happy New Year!