[Applause]
hi my name is Kim I’m a musician
I play guitar in brass bed and they
around town Cale I am also a fingerstyle
guitarist and a singer-songwriter I’m
also a composer I compose for visuals
and movie productions assisting music
director in movie productions also and
I’m a co-founder of handsome hope
volunteering platform and also a
co-founder of a social enterprise called
the feature project so before I
introduce you what to what the future
project is mainly I’m going to introduce
to what I do in the future project today
and my future journey but before I
introduce you to that I want to tell you
what is the refugee so many times when
we had to introduce what the picture
puja is we would tell people the picture
project is bla bla bla bla and but all
our shares are refugees and people will
go like what are refugees
so refugees are people that have to flee
from their current country their
homeland because war persecution or
political conflicts are happening back
in the country so it’s not safe for them
to remain saying that they choose to
leave their homeland and seek for
another country for hoping that they
will find a safe place to stay and gain
a sustainable living so that’s the
definition of a refugee to us so if I
want to tell you some facts that you
probably will find it on Wikipedia but
hopefully after my speech and with my
tone today you’ll find it much more
alarming and very urges there are
actually
sixty-five million refugees in the world
today we can now form with these
populations we can now form the third
largest country in the world by selling
only 5% gets to resettle and when I
talked about recently it means that it
means that when they seek refuge from
another country they register themselves
under the United Nations as a refugee or
an asylum seeker waiting for around
seven to twenty or properly thirty years
to get resettled to another country
gaining citizenship so they have will
have better access to access to
education medical health care or
probably be able to gain an income from
there
so that that is called resetting so five
percent of them only gets to resettle so
what happens to the rest of the ninety
five percent so the rest of the ninety
five percent either are stuck in refugee
camps where limited food or water are
provided they are either stuck in the
country they seek refuge from where they
don’t get to gain an income or no
shelter no food no one to support or
they are either sent back to their
homeland where war and persecution
continue to happen right there so
zooming in to Malaysia there are more
than 150 thousand registered refugees
now in Malaysia but Malaysia is not
under the UN Refugee 1950 1951 UN
Refugee Convention signatory therefore
there are no refugee camps in Malaysia
this 150,000 registered refugees have no
legal rights to work
they cannot gain a sustainable income
therefore no better livelihood no access
to education no medical health care
sometimes no shelter above their head or
even food on their table so going back
to three years ago when me and my co two
co-founders cook from the volunteering
platform called Hansel
what we do is we turn our University
students as volunteer to the underserved
community providing the education
assistance so I was a musician and all I
know what to do it is music so I teach
music so when I was teaching music there
I organize and conduct a tree of tree
fundraising concerts along the way
raising a raising money for education
and from there last year many of our
kids start dropping out of school so
from my class
22:10 to 8 to 5 and we were really
worried and very concerned about this
situation so we went for home
visitations try to understand why our
kids are dropping out of school and we
realized that in their family in this
community they faced a very big
financial problem the kids are either
they cannot afford to go to school or
either they have to quit school to work
to support a family of probably five to
ten but at the same time we also observe
that everyone knows how to cook because
even a 10 year old can cook for a family
of five to 10 I’m 26 years old this year
but I cannot cook for myself so we were
really amazed by by this thing and how
resilient and strong were they and we
wanted to create a platform for them
where they can showcase these skills to
our customers our clients are our public
and so we created the picture project so
to officially introduce you to the
beecher project right now the future
project is catering and delivery service
we are associate the price but all our
cooks are refugees so now we have eight
families with us we have two from
Afghanistan – from Syria – from Myanmar
one Iraq and one Gaza and I hope you all
have your lunch because I’m going to
show you some of our food this is from
Afghanistan it’s called Palani and
– is our favorite from Gaza chicken
Mandy how much time break from Syria
this is like real pictures that I me and
my photographer token so this is chicken
biryani I know everyone here is very
familiar about chicken biryani in
Malaysia but when you try to keep Bernie
from Syria it is the bomb is different
and on our lunchboxes we do place a
story of the particular family that
cooked their food where they came from
was the journey coming here and what
they faced was struggle they they they
went through and how your purchase can
actually empower them in their daily
lives
so to further introduce you to the
feature project I’m gonna introduce you
to two of our families one the first one
would be canoe family in Ching canoe
means mother and the reason why we call
her mother because we call our families
families we didn’t we don’t call them
beneficiaries we don’t call them
suppliers there’s one time our intern
came in and he asks us so these
suppliers and go like no don’t call them
suppliers they are our family so we
called up we call canoe our mother and
when she first started with the teacher
project she was the first hope for the
future project and we sat together she
cooked what she can with a nice and then
we realized that oh this one can
actually be promoted to the public and
we try to encourage her to to try and
cook for our public and we get a bunch
of friend of 20 to 30 where they were
having meeting and we say like oh can
you seven give me one coming different
mazaa then then they
they live on tribe and we try to
encourage canoe canoe was really
skeptical about the idea about joining
the picture pooja she was in confident
because she don’t think that anyone
would buy someone something that was
cooked by a poor or something from home
couldn’t be promoted outside and we try
to encourage her for a very long time
and until she was she was convinced to
try out 20 to cook 20 packs for our
friends and when we cook for them we ask
for feedback and the feedback was very
positive so we convey these positiveness
to renew and she gained more confidence
through there from transition she cooked
forty fifty and today you can call two
hundred packets per meal per time and
since joining the picture project she
could afford to send her kids to school
she could buy stationaries for her kids
and they used to eat rice and just soup
or vegetable that’s all and now she
can’t afford to put meat on her table
for her family so this is good news the
next family is ali i don’t know why the
phone is like that but okay so ali came
from Syria this one is a bit depressing
so my one your tissue out when Annie
came from Syria he was he used to be a
compliance officer in Western unit back
in Syria how he described himself being
in Malaysia is his life was imposed
because of his qualifications he no one
recognises his qualifications here he
had to work odd jobs going being a
waiter in the restaurants or washing
dishes washing car just to sustain his
family who his brother-in-law his sister
and his one year old nephew this is
three years already came to
to sustain them give them a shelter and
when the reason why they choose to king
to come to Malaysia by plane is because
of his one-year own nephew at that time
if they were to take the route to Europe
by water is very very dangerous for a
kid and therefore they choose to come to
Malaysia but knowing that surviving in
Malaysia is way harder than surviving in
Europe because they just they just
couldn’t get a job a decent job to
sustain a family and when when Ali got
settled down here he wanted to bring two
of his parents to Malaysia and but they
couldn’t bring him bring them in because
at that time cereal in the law in Syria
had to change and they couldn’t escape
from Syria and he took them a year to be
able to bring the parents back into
Malaysia and when the parents were in
Malaysia they faced a bit of
psychological problem depression because
of the traumatic traumatic experience
that they went through back in the
country or the journey here and they
have nothing to do in Malaysia
and his dad used to be an architect and
he was a really really amazing architect
back in Syria but here he was nothing
and he lose his voice because of how
traumatized he was and so Ali came to us
asking the picture project if we could
help up his mom because his mom cooked
really good food and the chicken biryani
was cooked by his mum just now and so we
tried we went to try his food and we
find that the food was really really
amazing without hesitation we say yes
your mum can be on board with us and
since joining the teacher project 2 to 3
months we see improvements in how his
mom’s psychological well-being is that
could speak
that he had a voice for himself and
started speaking and it was really
really overwhelming for us to see
situations like that not not how the
picture project would just give them a
sustainable living but the feature
project can actually help them improve
their well we improved their
psychological thinking and things like
that so it really was really
overwhelming and it’s the field that
keeps driving us to do what we are doing
today so there was Ali’s family going
back to the problem 65 million refugees
in the world 150 thousand registered
refugees in Malaysia and the picture
project is only helping eight families
now it all seemed so extraordinary
already right which turn that was like
this but sometimes I wonder if everyone
in this room here or half of the
population in Malaysia who lives above
the poverty line would have just shared
a meal with someone from the other sub
community whether you’re right whether
they are a refugee especially it’s
someone with disabilities or orphanage
or anything and any any people from the
funders of community we just share a
meal with them understood their problems
and probably make a simple app probably
when someone was walking with his
walking frame and you give him give him
a leaf or someone couldn’t have food and
you share your food any simple act I
think that’s more extraordinary because
in the picture project we don’t believe
in doing things alone we believe in
changing the world together collectively
so that’s all for my speech thank you
very much
[Applause]
hi my name is Kim I’m a musician
I play guitar in brass bed and they
around town Cale I am also a fingerstyle
guitarist and a singer-songwriter I’m
also a composer I compose for visuals
and movie productions assisting music
director in movie productions also and
I’m a co-founder of handsome hope
volunteering platform and also a
co-founder of a social enterprise called
the feature project so before I
introduce you what to what the future
project is mainly I’m going to introduce
to what I do in the future project today
and my future journey but before I
introduce you to that I want to tell you
what is the refugee so many times when
we had to introduce what the picture
puja is we would tell people the picture
project is bla bla bla bla and but all
our shares are refugees and people will
go like what are refugees
so refugees are people that have to flee
from their current country their
homeland because war persecution or
political conflicts are happening back
in the country so it’s not safe for them
to remain saying that they choose to
leave their homeland and seek for
another country for hoping that they
will find a safe place to stay and gain
a sustainable living so that’s the
definition of a refugee to us so if I
want to tell you some facts that you
probably will find it on Wikipedia but
hopefully after my speech and with my
tone today you’ll find it much more
alarming and very urges there are
actually
sixty-five million refugees in the world
today we can now form with these
populations we can now form the third
largest country in the world by selling
only 5% gets to resettle and when I
talked about recently it means that it
means that when they seek refuge from
another country they register themselves
under the United Nations as a refugee or
an asylum seeker waiting for around
seven to twenty or properly thirty years
to get resettled to another country
gaining citizenship so they have will
have better access to access to
education medical health care or
probably be able to gain an income from
there
so that that is called resetting so five
percent of them only gets to resettle so
what happens to the rest of the ninety
five percent so the rest of the ninety
five percent either are stuck in refugee
camps where limited food or water are
provided they are either stuck in the
country they seek refuge from where they
don’t get to gain an income or no
shelter no food no one to support or
they are either sent back to their
homeland where war and persecution
continue to happen right there so
zooming in to Malaysia there are more
than 150 thousand registered refugees
now in Malaysia but Malaysia is not
under the UN Refugee 1950 1951 UN
Refugee Convention signatory therefore
there are no refugee camps in Malaysia
this 150,000 registered refugees have no
legal rights to work
they cannot gain a sustainable income
therefore no better livelihood no access
to education no medical health care
sometimes no shelter above their head or
even food on their table so going back
to three years ago when me and my co two
co-founders cook from the volunteering
platform called Hansel
what we do is we turn our University
students as volunteer to the underserved
community providing the education
assistance so I was a musician and all I
know what to do it is music so I teach
music so when I was teaching music there
I organize and conduct a tree of tree
fundraising concerts along the way
raising a raising money for education
and from there last year many of our
kids start dropping out of school so
from my class
22:10 to 8 to 5 and we were really
worried and very concerned about this
situation so we went for home
visitations try to understand why our
kids are dropping out of school and we
realized that in their family in this
community they faced a very big
financial problem the kids are either
they cannot afford to go to school or
either they have to quit school to work
to support a family of probably five to
ten but at the same time we also observe
that everyone knows how to cook because
even a 10 year old can cook for a family
of five to 10 I’m 26 years old this year
but I cannot cook for myself so we were
really amazed by by this thing and how
resilient and strong were they and we
wanted to create a platform for them
where they can showcase these skills to
our customers our clients are our public
and so we created the picture project so
to officially introduce you to the
beecher project right now the future
project is catering and delivery service
we are associate the price but all our
cooks are refugees so now we have eight
families with us we have two from
Afghanistan – from Syria – from Myanmar
one Iraq and one Gaza and I hope you all
have your lunch because I’m going to
show you some of our food this is from
Afghanistan it’s called Palani and
– is our favorite from Gaza chicken
Mandy how much time break from Syria
this is like real pictures that I me and
my photographer token so this is chicken
biryani I know everyone here is very
familiar about chicken biryani in
Malaysia but when you try to keep Bernie
from Syria it is the bomb is different
and on our lunchboxes we do place a
story of the particular family that
cooked their food where they came from
was the journey coming here and what
they faced was struggle they they they
went through and how your purchase can
actually empower them in their daily
lives
so to further introduce you to the
feature project I’m gonna introduce you
to two of our families one the first one
would be canoe family in Ching canoe
means mother and the reason why we call
her mother because we call our families
families we didn’t we don’t call them
beneficiaries we don’t call them
suppliers there’s one time our intern
came in and he asks us so these
suppliers and go like no don’t call them
suppliers they are our family so we
called up we call canoe our mother and
when she first started with the teacher
project she was the first hope for the
future project and we sat together she
cooked what she can with a nice and then
we realized that oh this one can
actually be promoted to the public and
we try to encourage her to to try and
cook for our public and we get a bunch
of friend of 20 to 30 where they were
having meeting and we say like oh can
you seven give me one coming different
mazaa then then they
they live on tribe and we try to
encourage canoe canoe was really
skeptical about the idea about joining
the picture pooja she was in confident
because she don’t think that anyone
would buy someone something that was
cooked by a poor or something from home
couldn’t be promoted outside and we try
to encourage her for a very long time
and until she was she was convinced to
try out 20 to cook 20 packs for our
friends and when we cook for them we ask
for feedback and the feedback was very
positive so we convey these positiveness
to renew and she gained more confidence
through there from transition she cooked
forty fifty and today you can call two
hundred packets per meal per time and
since joining the picture project she
could afford to send her kids to school
she could buy stationaries for her kids
and they used to eat rice and just soup
or vegetable that’s all and now she
can’t afford to put meat on her table
for her family so this is good news the
next family is ali i don’t know why the
phone is like that but okay so ali came
from Syria this one is a bit depressing
so my one your tissue out when Annie
came from Syria he was he used to be a
compliance officer in Western unit back
in Syria how he described himself being
in Malaysia is his life was imposed
because of his qualifications he no one
recognises his qualifications here he
had to work odd jobs going being a
waiter in the restaurants or washing
dishes washing car just to sustain his
family who his brother-in-law his sister
and his one year old nephew this is
three years already came to
to sustain them give them a shelter and
when the reason why they choose to king
to come to Malaysia by plane is because
of his one-year own nephew at that time
if they were to take the route to Europe
by water is very very dangerous for a
kid and therefore they choose to come to
Malaysia but knowing that surviving in
Malaysia is way harder than surviving in
Europe because they just they just
couldn’t get a job a decent job to
sustain a family and when when Ali got
settled down here he wanted to bring two
of his parents to Malaysia and but they
couldn’t bring him bring them in because
at that time cereal in the law in Syria
had to change and they couldn’t escape
from Syria and he took them a year to be
able to bring the parents back into
Malaysia and when the parents were in
Malaysia they faced a bit of
psychological problem depression because
of the traumatic traumatic experience
that they went through back in the
country or the journey here and they
have nothing to do in Malaysia
and his dad used to be an architect and
he was a really really amazing architect
back in Syria but here he was nothing
and he lose his voice because of how
traumatized he was and so Ali came to us
asking the picture project if we could
help up his mom because his mom cooked
really good food and the chicken biryani
was cooked by his mum just now and so we
tried we went to try his food and we
find that the food was really really
amazing without hesitation we say yes
your mum can be on board with us and
since joining the teacher project 2 to 3
months we see improvements in how his
mom’s psychological well-being is that
could speak
that he had a voice for himself and
started speaking and it was really
really overwhelming for us to see
situations like that not not how the
picture project would just give them a
sustainable living but the feature
project can actually help them improve
their well we improved their
psychological thinking and things like
that so it really was really
overwhelming and it’s the field that
keeps driving us to do what we are doing
today so there was Ali’s family going
back to the problem 65 million refugees
in the world 150 thousand registered
refugees in Malaysia and the picture
project is only helping eight families
now it all seemed so extraordinary
already right which turn that was like
this but sometimes I wonder if everyone
in this room here or half of the
population in Malaysia who lives above
the poverty line would have just shared
a meal with someone from the other sub
community whether you’re right whether
they are a refugee especially it’s
someone with disabilities or orphanage
or anything and any any people from the
funders of community we just share a
meal with them understood their problems
and probably make a simple app probably
when someone was walking with his
walking frame and you give him give him
a leaf or someone couldn’t have food and
you share your food any simple act I
think that’s more extraordinary because
in the picture project we don’t believe
in doing things alone we believe in
changing the world together collectively
so that’s all for my speech thank you
very much
[Applause]
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