Dear Sir or Madam,
Cordial greetings from ENACTUS UUM,
First of all, we are a group of active and enthusiastic students from ENACTUS UUM. Kindly let
me deliver a brief explanation about our organization. ENACTUS is an international non-profit
entrepreneurial based organization at the university level, comprising of students, academic and
business leaders. This organization was initially known as SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise)
and has just recently re-branded into ENACTUS (Entrepreneurial Action Us). Here in ENACTUS
UUM, active and enthusiastic young leaders are doing projects that focus on community
development by adding entrepreneurship element into the transformation.
Furthermore, ENACTUS UUM is well aware of the Corporate Social Responsibility projects that
your company has been supporting and endorsed for several years and we are sure that our projects
share similar goals and visions that your company has. Therefore, in this delightful opportunity, we
would like to further explain our projects with you, in the hope that we will manage to build
partnership and collaboration with your company.
Currently , we are executing 4 projects namely 4Nature , Back2Bag , ZeroWater and Charcos .
Further information regarding two of our significant projects are explained below.
1.

4NATURE
Minimizing the usage of chemical fertilizers and pesticides among the farmers by giving them
information and instruction about methods to produce organic fertilizers and pesticides.

Improving the standard of living and quality of living among the farmers.
It can be found out that the ENACTUS Members were sharing the farmers the techniques of
producing organic fertilizers and pesticides at the certain region in Kedah in the pictures attached
below.
2.

Back2Bag
Emphasizing the importance of lessening unused plastic products in the community by
repurposing the disposed plastic bags into attractive and marketable products such as pencil
case and coin pouch and creating wider scope of job opportunities

Production and sales will be done by disabled people with the knowledge and skills imparted
by ENACTUS UUM, which therefore will address the issues of unemployment faced by
disabled people
It can be found out that the ENACTUS members were instructing the disabled to make the
marketable plastic bags by utilizing the unused plastics in the pictures attached below.
ENACTUS Malaysia National Cup
The National Competitions of ENACTUS in Malaysia are dramatic, energy filled events where
ENACTUS teams showcase the collective impact of their community outreach efforts. There will
be a National Cup for every university’s ENACTUS team in Malaysia to compete with each other
in every year by presenting their projects to the business leaders. The business leaders serve as
judges who evaluate and rank them on how successful they were at using business concepts to
improve the quality of life and standard of living for those in need. Upon winning the ENACTUS
Malaysia National Cup 2014, the team will then represent Malaysia to the prestigious
ENACTUS World Cup. Currently in 2014, ENACTUS UUM is the winner of the ENACTUS
Malaysia National Cup 2014 and therefore will represent Malaysia in ENACTUS World Cup
2014 in Beijing, China.
These are the projects and facts that ENACTUS UUM has been currently involved and
developing. It would be highly appreciated if we can have an opportunity to have a pitching
session with your company so that we can present and explain about the projects in a very wellorganized manner.
Thank you so much for the time you have given to read the information in this particular abstract.
Your reply would be highly appreciated. For further details and inquiries, please kindly contact us.
Best regards,
Zaw Zaw Aung,
Director of Corporate Relations,
Public Relation Department,
ENACTUS Northern University of Malaysia,
Contact Number: 01115155767, 0149497462
Skype Address: zawzawaung729
Email Address: zawzawaung216@gmail.com
ENTREPRENEUR ACTION US (ENACTUS)
UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA
PROJECT PROPOSAL
4NATURE
DATE:
SEPTEMBER 2014 – JUNE 2015
VENUE:
KEDAH, MALAYSIA
PREPARED BY:
ENACTUS
UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA
SUPPORTED BY:
CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (CEDI)
UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA
1.0 Purpose
The objective of this proposal is to win and seek financial support from UReka’s Berbudi
Berganda: Social Impact initiation Challenge to implement 4Nature project.
2.0 Background
4Nature is a project aspires to improve the standard of living and quality of lives of farmers in
Kedah area. This project aims to co-operate with Agriculture Department of Kedah to deliver and
instill the knowledge of natural farming to the targeted farmers.
Throughout the establishment, 4Nature has successfully conducted a few workshops in targeted
places which focused on the theory and practical of making Indigenous Microorganism (IMO), an
organic fertilizer known to be effective in enhancing the fertility of the soil.
4Nature started off initially in phase I by helping a group of targeted farmer at Pokok Sena. Now,
we are targeting a new village, Kampung Wang and expanding our project to Kolej Pertanian
Kedah in order to preserve and recover the nature of the environment. Through this project, we
target to tackle various environmental issues caused by the chemical fertilizer while fostering
“agro-preneurs” with this sustainable "green business” concept.
3.0 Goal
To raise awareness and increase the knowledge of natural farming among the farmers in order to
reduce the land pollution and reduce their operating costs of plantation.
4.0 Objectives
4.1
To empower the farmers with necessary skills on how to produce IMO by themselves in
order to increase their standard of living.
4.2
To create a natural farming center around Kedah area which focus on using natural
ingredients.
4.3
To recover and enhance the fertility of the soil by reducing the use of chemical fertilizer.
4.4
To promote the benefits of using organic fertilizer among the farmer in order to reduce
land pollution.
5.0 Target Audience
Our participants will be selected among all the farmers from the targeted village around Kedah
area. In addition, we are now targeting the soon-to-be farmer from Kolej Pertanian Kedah to join
our project.
6.0 Project Timeline
This project is scheduled to start from September 2014 to May 2015. The details is elaborated in
the following section.
Sep 14’
1.Consult relative agencies
2.Secure target audience
3.Research & development
4.Training & development
5.Data collection
Oct 14’
Nov 14’
Dec 14’
Jan 15’
Feb 15’
Mar 15’
Apr 15’ May15’
7.0 Project Tentative
7.1 Consult Relative Agencies/Department
(Early of September – Mid of October)
Sep 14’ Oct 14’ Nov 14’ Dec 14’ Jan 15’ Feb 15’ Mar 15’ Apr 15’ May15’
1.Consult relative
agencies
Agriculture department
In this stage, we will visit to Agriculture department to secure more information about IMO for
members’ training and development. A mini workshop will be conducted by the 4Natures’ pilot
committees to teach the participants to produce IMO. All the project members are required to
know the basic skill on how to produce IMO. At the same time, we will cooperate with the
Agriculture department to identify new villages and farmers around Kedah area. We will also
consult related agencies or department to generate new ideas about natural farming.
Kolej Pertanian
In this stage, we focus on fostering the soon-to-be farmers to do natural farming and become
“Agro-preneurs” in the future. First, we propose our new idea to launch a natural farming club to
the executive director at Kolej Pertanian. Before that, we will organize an exhibition for the Kolej
Pertanian students to recruit new members to join the natural farming club. Meanwhile, we will
also establish collaboration with the management of Kolej Pertanian to expand our project in
natural farming.
7.2 Secure Target Audience
(Mid of September – Mid of May)
Sep 14’ Oct 14’ Nov 14’ Dec 14’ Jan 15’ Feb 15’ Mar 15’ Apr 15’ May15’
2.Secure Target
Audience
Pokok Sena
In order to sustain our project, we will carry out the “Mentor-mentee System” to foster more
farmers to do natural farming. We will group the farmers together in a small group (around 5
people) to produce IMO and lead by a mentor. Our purpose is to encourage the group of farmers to
produce IMO in a large scale and sell it to their customers. Besides that, a tutorial video will be
made to record the making process of IMO.
Kampung Wang
We will expand our project to a new targeted village which is Kampung Wang. In the early phase,
a workshop will be conducted to introduce IMO to the farmers. Then, we will carry on our project
by signing up the “IMO Program” with the farmers. In the future, we plan to form a group of
farmers that are expert inapplying natural farming.
7.3 Research & Development
(Early of October– End of November)
Sep 14’ Oct 14’ Nov 14’ Dec 14’ Jan 15’ Feb 15’ Mar 15’ Apr 15’ May15’
3.Research &
development
In research and development phase, our R&D team will work on new ideas of natural farming. Our
research will focus on increasing the quantity and quality of the crop, paddy plantation andorganic
pest repellant.
7.4 Training & Development
(Early of October – End of April)
Sep 14’
Oct 14’
Nov 14’
Dec 14’
Jan 15’
Feb 15’
Mar 15’
Apr 15’
May15’
4.Training &
development
Members
A training program will be conducted for all the project members in order to ensure all of them
have the basic knowledge on how to produce IMO. Hence, if the target audience encountered
problem in the making process of IMO, the members would be able to help.
New Village
A workshop on how to make IMO will be carried out for the targeted participants in the new
village, Kampung Wang. Before the workshop, we will approach the farmers around Kampung
Wang and invite them to this workshop. The speaker of this workshop will be invited from
Agriculture Department of Kubang Pasu. This workshop comprises of theory on IMO and hands
on session to make IMO.
After the workshop, we will have an interview session to collect the information from the farmers
and persuade them to take part in the “IMO Program”.
IMO Program
IMO program is a program for all the farmers that engaged in this project. We will provide IMO
booklet and calendar to the farmers. The IMO booklet consists of the IMO making process and the
application method while the IMO calendar is to help them manage their production schedule. We
will mark down all the dates of process from IMO 1 to IMO 5 in order to help the farmers to avoid
miscalculation of the date.
In this program, we will teach the farmers the basic skills on data collecting by introducing the
new documentation system. The farmers need to jot down their income, expenses and the amount
of plantation produced in each cycle. This system enables the farmers to monitor theirprofit and
expenses.
Kolej Pertanian
We plan to establish a student organization named Natural Farming Club (producing IMO) in
Kolej Pertanian in order to impart the knowledge of IMO to the students. Our main objective is to
foster the soon-to-be farmers to become an “Agro-preneurs” in the future. The students who
participated in the club will be trained to produce IMO by their own in a small group. Students in
this club will produce IMO together and apply IMO on their existing land. Our members will act
as a middle man that monitors them closely from time to time to ensure that the program is going
on smoothly.
7.5 Data Collection
(Mid of November – End of December / Early of April – End of May)
Sep 14’ Oct 14’ Nov 14’ Dec 14’ Jan 15’ Feb 15’ Mar 15’ Apr 15’ May15’
5.Data collection
During this phase, we will collect data from the farmers through interview and the documentation
they have done. Aside from this, we will collect the soil to test on the pH value before and after
applying IMO. All these data collected will send to Agriculture Department for approval and
credential.
8.0 Project Impact
8.1 Economy

Increase the farmers’ income

Enhance the quality of the crop

Reduce the cost of purchasing chemical fertilizer

Increase farmers’ standard of living
8.2 Social

Increase farmers’ knowledge and skill to produce and use IMO

Develop a natural farming society towards the farmers

Foster more natural farming farmers
8.3 Environment

Reduce the usage of chemical fertilizer

Increase environment consciousness among the farmers

Recover the fertility of the soil by improving its pH value
9.0 Involvement
Members involved: 22 Enactus UUM members.
10.0 Project Budget
1 Petrol (AlorSetar)
1 Car
Outing
40 trips x 16 litre x RM2.10
2 Toll
Outing
40 trips x RM11
3 Car Rental
1 car x RM 50 x 40 trips
4 Telecommunication
3 persons x RM30 x 7 months
1344
440
2000
630
5 Workshop
1) Raw Material
Rice : 20 x RM1
Box : 20 x RM1
Brown Sugar : 5.5 kg x RM2
Container : 20 x RM0.30
Mahjong paper : 4 x RM2
Rubber band : 1 x RM3
Top Soil : 500kg x RM0.10
Chicken Manure : 10ton x RM150
Rice Bran : 300kg x RM0.50
20
20
11
6
8
3
50
1500
150
2) Booklet
60 booklets x 4 workshops x RM1
240
3) Stationery
4 workshops x RM50
200
4) IMO sample
10 bags x 4 workshops x RM50
2000
6 Research & Development
500
7 Contingency
912
Total
10,034
11.0 Contacts
For further information, please contact:
Name: Leong Karh Shien
Designation: Project Manager of 4Nature
Mobile number: 016-5455642
Email: keithleong1993@gmail.com
ENTREPRENEUR ACTION US(ENACTUS)
UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA
PROJECT PROPOSAL
BACK2BAG PROJECT
DATE:
SEPTEMBER 2014 –JUNE 2015
VENUE:
KEDAH, MALAYSIA
PREPARED BY:
ENACTUS
UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA
SUPPORTED BY:
CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (CEDI)
UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA
1.0 Purpose
The objective of this proposal is to win and seek financial support from UReka’s Berbudi Berganda: Social
Impact Initiation Challenge to implement Back2Bag project. This project is scheduled to start from
September 2014 to June 2015.
2.0 Background
Back2Bag is a project initiated under ENACTUS UUM, which aspire to improve the standard of living and
quality of lives of disabled people in Kedah via entrepreneurship. This project aims to address the
employment issues faced by the disabled while reducing plastic bag wastes by repurposing the disposed
plastic bags into attractive and marketable products like pencil case and coin pouch. The disabled people
will produce the products and sell it with the knowledge and skills imparted by ENATCUS UUM. Every year,
there are approximately 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags used worldwide. As a consumer, individual
uses averagely 100 plastic bags monthly and only a small percentage of these plastic bags are recycled due
to the higher cost of recycling than producing a new one.1Through this project, we target to tackle various
environment issues posed by the plastic bags while fostering entrepreneurs with these sustainable “green
business” concepts.
2.1 The Disabled
In northern region of Malaysia, there are approximately 75,000 registered disabled people with average
income of less than RM300 per month. Having to live in their incapability, these disabled are facing serious
social discrimination from the society. Their incapability also causes them to be able to engage in jobs and
earn for their living. Hence, the family members of these disabled would have to take up extra jobs to
support them.
3.0 Goal
To provide equitable job opportunities with profitable income for the disabled via creative and sustainable
entrepreneurial approach.
4.0 Objectives
4.1
To equip our participants with essential knowledge and skills to enhance their standard
of living and quality of lives
1
Plastic bags: Carrefour leads the way. Malaysian Nature Society.16 November 2009. Retrieved from www.mns.my
4.2
To ignite the passion for entrepreneurship in our participants
4.3
To reduce our participants’ dependence on government/non-government support of
charity or financial aid
4.4
To increase our participants’ income by at least RM500 by the end ofproject
4.5To create more job opportunities and promote employability among the disabled
5.0 Target Participants
The participants of this project will be selected among the disabled with mental disorder between the
ages of 18 to 50. However, we work closely with Fungates Superhope Foundation, Pusat Jagaan Sinar
Harapan and a few disable centers to join this project.
6.0 Project Timeline
Sep'14
1.Secure production centre
2. Member training
3. Research and Development
4. Meeting with new participants
5. Training and development
6. Supply of material and product
Oct'14
Nov'14
Dec'14
Jan'15
Feb'15
Mar'15
Apr'15
May'15
7. Marketing research and implementation
8. Sponsor and Support
9. Project Monitoring
7.0 Project Tentative
7.01 Secure production centre
(Early of September - Mid of October)
Sep'14
Oct'14
Nov'14
Dec'14
Jan'15
Feb'15
Mar'15
Apr'15
1.Secure production centre
The objective of the outings during this stage is to visit the existing participants to update the
production, introduce new profit distribution scheme, new recording system and collect completed
products. In addition, we will enhance the quality of the products by providing intensive training,
quality check and standardize the products.
May'15
At the same time, we will look for new potential participants around Kedah area to engage in this
project. Besides, we will conduct a need assessment for the new potential participants.
7.02 Member training
(Early of October- End of December )
Sep'14
Oct'14
Nov'14
Dec'14
Jan'15
Feb'15
Mar'15
Apr'15
May'15
2. Member Training
During this stage, the new project members will go through training which carried out to sharpen
their crochet skill and to improve their abilities to train our target audience. Every new member is
required to know the basic crochet skill and technique. Besides that, our training will comprises
leadership skill, communication skill, marketing skill and others.
7.03 Research and development
(Mid of September - End of February)
Sep'14
Oct'14
Nov'14
Dec'14
Jan'15
Feb'15
Mar'15
Apr'15
3. Research and Development
We aim to expand the product variety for this term. Hence, R&D team will seek for potential
products and survey the market demand. At the same time, the team will do a research on
enhancing the quality of the existing product and methods to add value to all the products.
Furthermore, the team will do research to improve the product packaging and product branding.
7.04 First meeting with new participants
(Early of October - Early of December)
May'15
Sep'14
Oct'14
Nov'14
Dec'14
Jan'15
Feb'15
Mar'15
Apr'15
May'15
4. First Meeting with new participants
After we managed to find new potential group of participants, we will conduct a session with
them. The purpose of this session is to break down the barrier and gain trust from the participants.
Aside from this, we will briefly introduce the project and the objective of the project. We will also
instruct the participants how to handle the used plastics from sorting, cleaning, cutting and crochet.
Lastly, we will observe and select the most suitable disabled people to engage in the project.
7.05 Training and development
(Early of November- Early of March)
Sep'14
Oct'14
Nov'14
Dec'14
Jan'15
Feb'15
Mar'15
Apr'15
5. Training and development
Training will be conducted during the outing for all the participants. This term, we will emphasize
the training on the new participants to make sure that the new participants would be able to pick up
the crochet skills in a shorter time. We will also provide some basic business classes to each
participant so that in the future they would be able to manage the business.
Besides, project members in Training and Development department will learn new potential
products in order to be able to teach the target audience. If there is necessary, some members will
be attending professional crochet class in Penang.
7.06 Supply of material and product
May'15
(End of September - End of February)
Sep'14
Oct'14
Nov'14
Dec'14
Jan'15
Feb'15
Mar'15
Apr'15
May'15
6. Supply of material and product
In this stage, the team will liaise with Global Cycle to assure the logistic of materials supply. At
the same time, we will search for more recycle centers for collaboration.
For the product wise, we will keep searching for more shop lots to place the products on sale in
order to expand the market in Kedah area.
7.07 Marketing Research and Implementation
(Early of October -End of February)
Sep'14
Oct'14
Nov'14
Dec'14
Jan'15
Feb'15
Mar'15
Apr'15
7. Marketing Research and Implementation
This term, besides of expanding the products market in Kedah, we will also reach out to more
customers through online marketing. A website will be created with all the information and
products uploaded. In addition, a system will be established in order to manage the trading. After
online selling has stabilized, the target audiences are expected to manage website and the whole
business.
7.08 Sponsor and Support
(Mid of November- End of April)
Sep'14
Oct'14
Nov'14
Dec'14
Jan'15
Feb'15
Mar'15
Apr'15
May'15
May'15
8. Sponsor and Support
Our Public Relation team will seek for corporate sponsor to support our project. The department
members will join the marketing trip to pitch this project to the corporate. Besides, publicity of this
project is also an essential element to market the products. Therefore, we will emphasize on the
collaboration with English version of media such as The star and New Strait Times.
7.09 Project Monitoring
(Early of March- End of May)
Sep'14
Oct'14
Nov'14
Dec'14
Jan'15
Feb'15
Mar'15
Apr'15
9. Project Monitoring
After our participants able to grasp the essential skill and knowledge, we will always monitor
them, provide continuous advice and support to make sure their product meet the basic
requirement. We will provide assistance to them when they needed.
8.0 Project Impact
8.1 Economy

Reduce the high cost of recycling plastic bags

Create more job opportunities

Involve in support and financial aid given by government to the disabled
May'15

Increase individuals’ standard of living
8.2 Social

Improve individuals’ self esteem

Increase individuals’ knowledge in commercial skill.

Develop a wholly respectful and responsible society towards the disabled
8.3 Environment

Reduce plastic bag wastes by at least 10000 units

Reduce the emission of toxic gases due to incineration of plastic bags

Increase environment consciousness among the people
9.0 Involvement
Members involved: 24 Enactus UUM members.
10.0 Project Budget
1 Petrol (Alor Setar)
2 Cars
Outing
2 cars x 20 trips x 11 litres x RM2.10
924
2 Toll
Outing
40 trips x RM6
240
3 Car Rental
2 cars x RM50 x 40 trips
4000
4 Telecommunication
3 persons x RM30 x 7 months
630
5 Stationery
300
6 Training
1) Equipment/material
30 Crochet Hook (RM 10/unit)
3 Boxes of Mask (RM15/box – 50pcs)
3 Boxes of gloves (RM10/box– 30pcs)
2) Crochet lesson (Penang)
10 persons x RM30 x 1 lesson
300
45
30
300
2 car x RM43.20 (toll)
2 car x RM70 (petrol)
7 Promotional Activities
1) Recycling Awareness Campaign
2) Collecting Plastics Bag Competition
8 Contingency
1) Petrol
Event/Roadshow
Total
11.0 Contacts
For further information, please contact:
Name: Nordiana Binti Abd Rashid
Designation: Project Manager of Back2bag
Mobile number: 013-5364990
Email: ndarcy92@gmail.com
86.4
140
1500
850
9,345.40
ENTREPRENEUR ACTION US(ENACTUS)
UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA
PROJECT PROPOSAL
CHARCOS
DATE:
SEPTEMBER 2014 –MAY 2015
VENUE:
KEDAH, MALAYSIA
PREPARED BY:
ENACTUS
UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA
SUPPORTED BY:
CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (CEDI)
UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA
1.0 Purpose
The purpose of this proposal is to win and seek financial support from UReka’s Berbudi Berganda:
Social Impact Initiation Challenge to execute Charcos project. This project is scheduled to start
from September 2014 to June 2015.
2.0 Background
Charcos is a new project initiated under ENACTUS UUM, which aspire to improve the standard of
living and quality of lives of farmers in northern region via entrepreneurship. This project aims to
reduce the air pollution that caused by coconut shells burning which happen rapidly these days. As
what we know, Malaysia has a lot of coconut plantation. After consuming the coconut, the farmers
would not know how to settle the coconut shell; therefore most of the farmers would burn the
coconut shells instead of reusing it. With this coco charcoal, we can kill two birds with one stone.
While burning the coconut shells, we can turn it into charcoal briquette2 and in the meantime
reduce the agricultural waste in the environment.
Charcos started off initially in phase I by helping a group of targeted farmer at Changloon in order
to preserve and recover the nature of the environment. Through this project, we target to tackle
various environment issues while fostering “agro-preneurs” with these sustainable “green
business” concepts.
2.1 The Coconut shells
Coconuts shells, which comprise 12 per cent of the weight of the coconut, could be utilized more
efficiently. Carbonization of one ton of coconut shells produces of the order 300 kg of charcoal,
which can be converted into 120 kg of activated carbon. The combustion of waste gases can be
utilized to enhance the efficiency of the processes and to generate power. The market for activated
carbon in filter materials, absorbents and similar uses could be increased substantially if controlled
processing and product certification were available. An alternative domestic application for
charcoal could be as fuel for cooking or for drying agricultural products.
2
briquette (or briquet) is a block of flammable matter used as fuel to start and maintain a fire. Common types of
briquettes are charcoal briquettes and biomass briquettes.
3.0 Goal
To develop farmers to become environmental friendly entrepreneurs by exploiting and converting
the agricultural waste to valuable product in order to reduce the air pollution from coconut shells
burning.
4.0 Objectives
4.1
To enhance the standard of living of the farmers by providing essential knowledge and
skills.
4.2
To ignite the entrepreneurial spirit among the target audiences.
4.3
To reduce the air pollution from coconut shells burning.
4.4
To improve the quality of charcoal while preserve the environment.
5.0 Target audiences
The target audiences of this project will be selected among the farmers between the ages of 18 to
60. Besides, we are now searchingfor more target audiences which really need our help to improve
their standard of living and quality of life.
6.0 Project Timeline
This project is scheduled to start from September 2014 to May 2015. The detail is elaborated in the
following section.
Sep’14
Oct’14
Nov’14
Dec’14
Jan’15
Feb’15
Mar’15
Apr’15
May’15
Apr’15
May’15
1.Reseach and
development
2. Secure target
audiences
3. Training and
development
4. Marketing
5.Event
organizing team
6. Documentation
7. Project review
7.0 Project Tentative
7.1 Research and development (Early of September-Mid of December)
Sep’14
Oct’14
Nov’14
Dec’14
Jan’15
Feb’15
Mar’15
1.Reseach and
development
Execute experiment
First of all, we will do the experiment by using double barrel “Bio-Char” method in order to test
the possibilities of making charcoal. Besides, we try to search out the demand and supply of
coconut charcoal in the society. Our main objective is to foster the target farmers to become
“Agro-preneurs” in the future.
Bio-Char Program
Bio-char program is a program for our target audiences that engaged in this project. We will
provide the farmers with bio-char booklet and calendar. The booklet consists of the bio-char
making process and the application method while the calendar is to help them manage their
production schedule.
7.2 Secure target audiences (Early of October-Mid of January)
Sep’14
Oct’14
Nov’14
Dec’14
Jan’15
Feb’15
Mar’15
Apr’15
May’15
2. Secure target
audiences
Changloon
In order to sustain our project, we will carry out the “Mentor-mentee System” to foster more
farmers to do coconut bio-char. We will practice our first farmer to become the Mentor and leading
the other farmers to produce coconut charcoal. Besides, a tutorial video will be made to record the
making process of bio-char.
7.3 Training and development (Early of October-End of April)
Sep’14
Oct’14
Nov’14
Dec’14
Jan’15
Feb’15
Mar’15
Apr’15
May’15
3. Training and
development
Members
During this stage, a training program will be conducted for all project members in order to sharpen
their skill and have basic knowledge on how to produce coconut bio-char. Every new member is
required to know the basic double barrel “bio char” method and technique. Besides, our training
will comprises leadership skill, communication skill, marketing skill and others. Therefore,
members will able to help the target audiences when they encountered with problems.
Target audiences
Training will be conducted during the outing for all the target audiences. We will also emphasize
the training on our target audiences to make sure that they would be able to pick up the skills in a
short period. On the same time, we will explain to our target audiences about the double barrel
“bio char” methods to increase their knowledge.
7.4 Marketing (Early of October-Early of May)
Sep’14
Oct’14
Nov’14
Dec’14
Jan’15
Feb’15
Mar’15
Apr’15
May’15
4. Marketing
In this stage, we will promote our products to the targeted customers. Besides, we will increase the
awareness of society by organizing event related to coconut charcoal. Throughout this marketing
stage, we will aid farmers to sell their product by themselves through social media. We will also
provide free samples for the customer to try, giving flyers, and also sell the products in the grocery
store.
7.5 Event organizing team (Early of October-Early of November)
Sep’14
Oct’14
Nov’14
Dec’14
Jan’15
Feb’15
Mar’15
Apr’15
May’15
5.Event organizing
team
In this stage, the EOT team will be form and handle by members. The purpose is to make sure that
the member can train themselves to become a leader and improves their soft skills which are
communication skills and event planning skills.
7.5 Documentation (Early of September-End of May)
Sep’14
Oct’14
Nov’14
Dec’14
Jan’15
Feb’15
Mar’15
Apr’15
May’15
6. Documentation
During this phase, we will collect data from the farmers through interview and documentation they
have done. Aside from this, we will collect the feedback and respond from the customer before and
after using coconut bio-charcoal. We will also manage our target audiences details, report and
document well for the whole term.
7.6 Project review (Early of April-End of May)
Sep’14
Oct’14
Nov’14
Dec’14
Jan’15
Feb’15
Mar’15
Apr’15
May’15
7. Project review
Normally, we have project review after the progress for whole term. We will find out the impact
and effect of the project. Therefore, we can improve it based on the overall result for the whole
term.
8.0 Project Impact
8.1 Economy

Increase the farmers’ monthly income.

Improve farmers’ standard of living.

Enhance the quality of the charcoal.
8.2 Social

Improve farmers’ self esteem.

Increase farmers’ knowledge in commercial skill.
8.3 Environment

Reduce the agricultural wastes in the environment.

Reduce the air pollution from coconut shells burning.

Increase environment consciousness among the community.
10.0 Project Budget
1 Transportation (Car rental)
1 car
50 trips x RM50
2. Petrol
1 Car
Outing
50 trips x 16 liters x RM2.30
Toll
Outing
50 trips x RM11
3. Training
1) Equipment / raw material
Barrel
: 20 x RM50
Paint cans : 20 x RM30
Wood
: 50 x RM 5
Dust saw : 15kg x RM3
Semen
: 15kg x RM6
2) Booklet
50 units x RM1
3) Stationery
5 EOT event
1) Material
Cups
: 200 x RM0.50
Coconut : 200 x RM5
Sugar : 10 x RM 3
Bowl
: 10 x RM10
2500
1840
550
1000
600
250
45
90
50
200
100
1000
30
100
Total
11.0 Contacts
Name: Paw Kooi Min
Designation: Project Director of CharCos
Mobile number: 016-5677518
Email: pawmin1010@outlook.com
8355.00
ENTREPRENEUR ACTION US (ENACTUS)
UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA
PROJECT PROPOSAL
ZERO WATER PROJECT
DATE:
SEPTEMBER 2014 – JUNE 2015
VENUE:
KEDAH, MALAYSIA
PREPARED BY:
ENACTUS
UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA
SUPPORTED BY:
CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (CEDI)
UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA
1.0 Purpose
The purpose of this proposal is to win and seek financial support from UReka’s Berbudi Berganda:
Social Impact Initiation Challenge to execute Zero Water project. This project is scheduled to start
from September 2014 to June 2015.
2.0 Background
Zero Water is a project initiated under ENACTUS UUM, which aspire to improve the standard of
living of the target audiences via entrepreneurship. The Zero Water project is the result under the
observations of the water crisis that is happening in Malaysia nowadays. As what we know,
excessive water is being wasted and polluted through the car wash activities. Most of the
community didn’t realize that this activity will actually harm and endanger our environment with
the usage of chemical substances during the car wash process. In order to solve this problem, we
come out with a solution on how we can reduce the usage of water by creating a new product to
replace the excessive water usage. Instead of using the water and chemical substances to clean our
car, we changed this conventional method by introducing the liquid spray. This type of liquid spray
can be used to clean our car without using any pipe water. More than that, we only used minimum
amount of water to produce the liquid spray and thus we can save a lot of water.
3.0 Goal
To reduce the excessive water usage and prevent the water pollution caused by the usage of
chemical substances during the car wash activity and it consequences to the community.
4.0 Objectives
4.1
To raise the awareness about the water waste and water pollution that occurs around
Malaysia.
4.2
To increase the target audience’s income and enhance their standard of living.
4.3
To provide entrepreneurial skills and soft skills to the target audiences.
4.4
To reduce the excessive water usage and prevent the environment from water
pollution.
5.0 Target Groups
Our target audiences will be selected among the people in need who stay around Kedah area and
also the person who runs the car wash shop. We will transfer the knowledge on how to produce the
liquid spray to the car wash shop owner to reduce their cost by reducing the water usage. In the
same time, we will also target the people who lived under poverty around Kedah area to assist
them to earn extra money by producing and selling the liquid spray.
6.0 Project Timeline
This project is scheduled to start from September 2014 to June 2015. The details are elaborated in
the following section.
1.Research
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
14’
14’
14’
14’
15’
15’
15’
15’
15’
15’
&
Development
2.Approach target
audiences
3.Training
&
development
4.Data collection
5.Project review
7.0 Project Tentative
7.01 Research & Development
(Early of September - Mid of October)
Sep'1
Oct'1
Nov'1
Dec'1
Jan'1
Feb'1
Mar'1
Apr'1
May'1
4
4
4
4
5
5
5
5
5
1.Research &
Development
In research & development phase, our R&D team will work on new ideas through internet, phone
call and e-mail. Our research will focus on how to reduce the usage of water and prevent water
pollution that caused by the use of chemical substances. Besides that, we will start to do
experiment regarding with the product. We will try with different ratio of ingredients in order to
produce a better formula for the liquid spray.
7.02 Approach Target Audiences
(Early of October - End of November)
Sep'
Oct'1 Nov'
Dec'
Jan'1 Feb'
Mar'
Apr'
May'
June’
14
4
14
5
15
15
15
15
14
15
2. Approach Target
Audiences
In this stage, we will choose our target audiences among the community who live under poverty
and car wash shops which are around Kedah area. The team will start to search for the target
audiences through the help of related government agencies. Furthermore, we will continue the
progress by approaching the selected target audiences after undergoes the filtration.
7.03 Training and development
(Early of October - Mid of December / Early of Ferbruary – End of April)
Sep'
Oct'
Nov'
Dec'
Jan'1 Feb'
Mar'
Apr'
May'
June’
14
14
14
14
5
15
15
15
15
15
3. Training new target
audiences
Training will be conducted for the members of the project and also for the target audiences.
Training for members will be held inside UUM campus while for the target audiences, training
will be conducted during the outing. The main purpose of the training for the members and the
target audiences are to ensure that all of them know how to produce the liquid spray and be able to
sustain by themselves.
7.04 Data Collection
(Mid of November - End of December / Early of April – End of May)
May'15 June
Sep'14 Oct'14 Nov'14 Dec'14 Jan'15 Feb'15 Mar'15 Apr'15
4. Data Collection
During the outing, every data that was needed will be collect and record by our team. We will
collect the data about the problems which faced by our target audiences when producing the
product and the income they generated by selling the product. We will also organize all the data
that we get by compiling them into documentation form in order to make it easier for our
references.
7.05 Project Review
(Early of December – End of December / Early of May – End of June)
‘15
Sep'1
Oct'1
Nov'1
Dec'1
Jan'1
Feb'1
Mar'1
Apr'1
May'
June’
4
4
4
4
5
5
5
5
15
15
5.0 Project
Review
Every term before we end, we will conduct the project’s review in order to improve and ameliorate
the project. During the review, we can figure out the actual problems that we faced in the project.
Besides, we are able to undergo changes or improved the quality of the project through the help of
reviewing the project.
8.0 Project Outcomes
8.1 Economy



Increase the target audiences’ income.
Increase the standard of living of our target audiences’ and the car wash shop owner.
Reduce the target audiences’ operation cost by reducing the usage of water and chemical
substances.
8.2 Social


Improve the target audiences’ self-esteem.
Increase the target audiences’ knowledge and skill to produce the product.
8.3 Environment


Reduce the usage of water and prevent water pollution.
Increase the awareness about water pollution and excessive water usage which occur
around Malaysia.
9.0 Involvement
Members involved: 15 Enactus UUM members.
Please refer Appendix 1.
10.0 Project Budget
No. Description
Amount
(RM)
1
Car Rental
2000
2 cars ( RM50X20 trips)
2
Petrol
Alor Star/ Jitra/ Kodiang/ Changlun:
3

2 cars

20 liter (RON 95 – RM2.30/L)

20 trips

Others (Events)
Toll
1840
400

2 cars

RM10 per trip

20 trips

Others (Events)
4
Parking
250
5
Stationery
240
6

RM80/Trainings

3 trainings
Training
1.) Raw material

Soda Bicarbonate [RM2.50 (40)]
100

Car wax [RM25 (20)]
500

Liquid Castile Soap [RM30 (20)]
600

Water
2.) Booklet
7

RM1.50/ booklet

40 booklets/training

3 trainings
180
Promotional Activities
1) Awareness Campaign
Total
11.0 Contacts
For further information, please contact:
Name: Muhammed Abdullah Sharaf
Designation: Project Director of Zero Water
Mobile number: 014-2388129
Email: mu21shi2011@gmail.com
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How would you solve the social problem you have chosen? Tell us the steps you would take and what you
would require. Make it practical, reasonable and can be implemented. *
The social problems that I have chosen are the current environmental issues regarding air pollution and
water shortage, accompanied by the issue of disabled people.
The first and foremost factor is the environmental issue in accordance with air pollution. As a result, a
leading approach in contributing to air pollution is the burning of coconut shells. Our project members have
taken several steps to turn the coconut shells into coconut bio-charcoal in order to overcome beneficially
about this issue. While processing all the steps that have taken, it would require coconut shells, which are
plentiful in Malaysia. This would lead for us to gather the farmers and instruct them how to turn the
coconut shells into charcoal.
The second issue on environment need to be tackled is the water shortage. In this particular issue, the steps
taken are mentioned precisely in this paragraph. To commence with, our members will create a product,
which is liquid spray to wash cars without having to rinse it again with substantial amount of water. It is
extremely usual to use lots of chemical and water while washing even a single car. As such, by
implementing these steps, we do believe that we can lessen the use of water as well as water pollution and
hence minimizing water shortage. Obviously, we needed certain commodities in order to do the steps are
providing materials to make the liquid spray, which are Soda Bicarbonate, Car wax, and Liquid castile soap.
The final issue I would like to confront is the issue of the disabled people. These people are often
discriminated in the society and are often find it hard to get a job to sustain their living. In order to increase
their standards of living as well as income, the steps we will do is we will teach them how to crochet using
plastic bags. By learning how to crochet, they will get the ability to make various things like laptop bags,
small pouch, etc. All the things they made can be sold hence they will get their own earnings and have an
entrepreneurial skill to rise their living standard. The required materials are plastic bags, as the main
material to crochet, and crochet hooks.
Where would you carry out your project? Which groups of people would benefit from it? *
For all of the projects that I have mentioned, which are mainly emphasizing in the State of Kedah.
However, we are aiming to expand our projects to other Malaysia’s northern region like Perlis and Penang.
In the CharCos project, the farmers are one of the groups of people who would benefit from our project.
Because the farmers will gain knowledge to be able to produce coconut bio-charcoal by themselves
and market it. This is an effective way to assist the farmers to reduce their cost of operation and in
the same time earned the extra income by reusing the coconut shells.
In the ZeroWater Project, the benefited groups are the owner of car wash shop as the product we
are going to introduce to them will cost less than the usual car washing chemicals and therefore
will increase their income.
In the Back2Bag Project, the disabled people who are the main focus of this project will be the o
group that will gain most benefit. The skills and ability that they possessed such as crocheting or
entrepreneurial skill to sell their handmade product will give them the opportunity to sustain their
own living without having to depend on others.
Why do you think it is important to address the social issue you have chosen? What do you hope to
achieve? If you had the funds how else can you expand your project? *
Environmental issues have been one of the world’s biggest focuses right now. The world has been
struggling with more and more pollution and air pollution as well as water pollution and shortage are among
the most problematical of them. We believe that to reduce air pollution and water pollution means we will
contribute to make the world’s struggle to decrease, hence, increase the quality of life of every living being
on earth.
On the other hand, the issue of disabled people and their difficulties to find jobs in the society has been a
well known issue since a very long time ago and the fact that this issue still exists in the society proved that
the methods that have been used to overcome this issue has not yet found its success. Furthermore, the
importance of this issue is not to be seen in a narrow perspective; in fact it should be seen that to address
this issue, we are making a world whereby the sustainability and living standards of all people should be
equal, regardless of their physical or mental disability.
In general, in all the issues we are trying to solve, we are looking and hoping to achieve for a better, more
livable world.
In a more detailed aspect, in the CharCos project, we hope to achieve a condition whereby all the farmers
that we have given the knowledge and skills to turn coconut shells to bio-charcoal can manage to use the
skills that they have to increase their living condition. Our project aims to not only reducing the air
pollution, but to also give the farmers an entrepreneurial skill to sell the products they have made. We hope
to achieve a state where we can contribute in reduction of air pollution as well as the increase of the
farmers’ standard living.
In the ZeroWater project, we hope to achieve a condition in which we can reduce the chemicals used by the
car wash shop owners and increase their living standards as well as income, because the liquid spray we are
going to introduce to them will be much cheaper and healthier than the chemicals they have been using.
In the Back2Bag Project, our main target to achieve is to raise the living standard of the disabled people. To
create a society whereby people with disability stand a chance to have the same, or even better life
standards when compared to the non-disabled people. We hope to achieve a condition whereby the disabled
people can have the independency to sustain their own life without having to depend on others.
If we manage to get the funds for all the projects we have mentioned, what we will do is we will expand our
project by expanding our targeted audiences for each and every project. Right now we are focusing on the
Kedah region, but if we manage to get the funds, the other regions such as Perlis and Penang will also be
reached. With funds in our projects, we will try and approach other organizations who are sharing the same
concerns as us in the aspect of environmental issues and entrepreneurial skills to build partnership with us.
These partnerships will make it easier for us to find new people who can work with us together and expand
the project to other different places by involving people and students from the local residence.
By the funds we have we will be able to increase the project’s span, hence increase people’s awareness
towards the issue we are dealing with as well as affecting more and more people to increase their standard
of living and awareness.