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.

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.