About the title, actualy what we wish to say is to make Malim Nawar a art+eco tourism place.  We hope it becomes popular in a good way, that it will promote the economy for the villagers, make it youthful, energetic while maintaining its countryside ecosystem. 

As we said, the bridge is the start. We need to invest more in human capital so that our people are empowered with knowledge and skills. 

What are we lacking now is the menpower with tiles flooring skills. We welcome flooring master to volunteerily teach our young volunteers on this special technique. 

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I am very happy that we have this teacher voluntarily provide free English learning class to the villagers. The villagers of diverse ethnicity and age groups are benefited from her teaching and being able to converse in simple English. 

It is rare because Malim Nawar is such a small village and rarely have visitors come from other states, what about from foreign countries? (Except when we hosted some backpackers or friends from overseas).  

I think it is a good beginning. We should welcome more people to visit this village, provide more educational and learning opportunities to our people, being it students or adults. There is not much activities can be done in this place. It is unlike Kampar, a very happening town due to the establishment of Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR). It is always good if our youth are empowered with English language, so that they have more employment opportunities in the future. 

I hope we could establish a foundation, maybe we name it as Malim Nawar Development Foundation, that provide grant opportunities for more young people to implement projects that are meaningful to the development of our children and youth, adults and elderly, culture, art, and most importantly the preservation of the environment from destruction. It also serves the objective of transforming this little town suitable for ecotourism, that boost the economy of this place. 

That is why the Rainbow Bridge was initiated. It should not be just a colour thing in Malim Nawar. KTM, the railway company, will collaborate with us to put it in the Perak tourism record. What will happen next? We will wait and see. 

Thanks to our uncle, who provide this space to store our tiles!

Thanks to MML! for giving us these tiles! 

What is next?? Join us and put the colourful tiles on the bridge! 

It has never be easy for us. 

The fundraising processes has started since January 2014. We approached the shop owners, paints resellers, and villagers in Malim Nawar. We got the very first fund from Toccata Studio, established by Ng Chor Guan, who invited me to pitch about this project at his weekly CAKE project. We got our first kick-off fund for this project. Then, we have raised about RM600 from the villagers and got us the first batch of paints to paint the bridge. 

Then, the news of this project has been published on local press. Well no fund came directly from the public. However the press article will make our fundraising process easier. Thanks to the ADUN Malim Nawar, Mr. Leong Cheok Keng, who organised the press conference for us. 

We thought no one is going to support this project. Malim Nawar was so remote. Who cares? We have no clue but continue seek for support. The tile flooring Master quoted for RM10,000 for the flooring fees. We can't afford it. We have to find alternative ways. 

Luckily the MML is willing sponsor the colour mosaic tiles, though our Mom said it is a bit of old fashioned. We are totally grateful for what has been given. 

We will involve more volunteers to join this project. We hope your contributions could make all of us who are working on tiles and painting, easier. 

Your fund will go to:

1. Logistic cost from Klang to Malim Nawar. (Unfortunately, the boss of the logistic company didn't give discount or waived the cost for us.) 

2. Flooring and painting tools and materials.

3. Technical fees for flooring. 

Let's keep our fundraising rolling. Your support is much needed. 

Thank you every backers! 

3. 

We have obtained the sponsorship from the MML Tiles Company! 

After such a long time of wait, the tiles have finally arrived Malim Nawar, from Johor and Klang! We are so excited to welcome its arrival, even though they arrived Malim Nawar early in the morning out of sudden. 

Luckily we managed to arrange 4 young students to help out in unloading the stuffs- They are 6 big piles and each pile contain 45 boxes of tile!

My mom did a great job in hosting the driver and volunteers a great breakfast and drinks. It's their hard work after all... We thank you all!!