What we’re doing and how you can be a part of it?
Many people have mistaken us as another institution that promotes the youth votes. What we’re really doing is to encourage those who do or intend to vote to exercise their votes wisely. We also believe that a citizen’s duty is not restricted to casting their ballot once in every five years. The power to improve our lives does not lie in the hands of our elected representatives alone. It lies in our daily actions.
LoyarBurok
Since the launch of UndiMsia! on 16 September 2011, we’ve been receiving positive and encouraging comments from random people on the work we do. There are also the rare occasions when we’re asked, “What do you really do?” A reasonable and wise question really and if you haven’t been following us on Twitter, Facebook or the articles written by many of our passionate volunteers and supporters on this blog, please do read on.
In a nutshell, UndiMsia! seeks to encourage youths to exercise their votes wisely and as citizens, to take effective actions to make their community better. Our pilot target group is predominantly the youths in Hulu Langat although our activities have manifested in many parts of the country and abroad.
Many people have mistaken us as another institution that promotes the youth votes. What we’re really doing is to encourage those who do or intend to vote to exercise their votes wisely. We also believe that a citizen’s duty is not restricted to casting their ballot once in every five years. The power to improve our lives does not lie in the hands of our elected representatives alone. It lies in our daily actions.
Our Laporan Rakyat project has provided us with an opportunity to speak with the communities in Hulu Langat and it comes as no surprise that the majority of youths do not really know who their local elected representatives are, what they’ve done to serve those who have elected them to power and what are the issues affecting them. This revelation begs three important questions:
- Who are we really voting for?
- Why are we voting for them?
- What are we doing to improve our own community?
UndiMsia! seeks to create youths’ awareness on those questions through four components:
Read more at: http://www.loyarburok.com/2012/03/05/undimsia_whatwedo/
