The main purpose why we want to do the crowdfunding is because we are aspire to do a big change! Besides getting funding from you through Mystartr platform, you are actually one step closer to us as a Dietitian. We are aspire to outreach more Malaysian to create awareness about the importance of nutrition in our daily life. 

Who are we?

We are final year undergraduates of Bachelor Science (Dietetics) from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). Currently, we are in our one-year professional training before we are qualified as a Dietitian in Malaysia. As a Dietetics intern, we are required to complete our community posting besides the clinical and foodservice. Hence, in the upcoming March, we will be outreaching the community to create awareness about nutrition. 

What are we doing?

As mentioned earlier, as part of our one-year professional training, we are required to complete the community posting. Our journey to become a Dietitian who will be serving back to society once we graduated is not easy. We have to go through three pillars or components in the training includes Food Service training (7 weeks), Clinical training (30 weeks) and Community training (6 weeks). Apart from that, we had also managed to outreach the students around our campus from the Health Screening Program for 15 weeks during our clinical training (refer video for more information). Hence, this time around, we aimed to do a bigger program with the selected target groups in ensuring the public are aware of their nutritional status. 

Why are we doing this?

To be honest, if we are talking about the graduation requirement, definitely it is part of it! But, the biggest WHY for us; to train our soft and hard skills in managing a program. Throughout the 6 weeks, we are expected to apply the theories into practice and solving any conflicts coming along the way professionally. 

How are we doing this?

Week 1-2: Pre-planning phase and identifying the needs assessment of the program

Week 3-4: Needs assessment activities and project implementation

Week 5-6: Project evaluation and group counselling

How does this project benefit you?

From this platform, it will not only beneficial to us. At the same time, the outcome of the project will give benefit to the targetted community and you! We will be sending an update through your email on the progress of the project. We hope that the community will realize the importance of nutrition in their daily life!

Project budget

There are several projects that will be held during our community posting. All of the project expenses are self-funded. Therefore, the allocation of our project expenses are divided into before, during and after project:-

The main challenge of this program is that it involves many stakeholders which include students, participants, NGOs, university and volunteers. Plus, it is a big scale project that involves a big amount of money to ensure the project runs smoothly. 

As for now, we don't have any sponsors to fund our project. Hence, we took up the challenge to do crowdfunding in order to indirectly outreaching society!