Bicycle Pledge for a Social Enterprise

Posted by Daniel CerVentus on Oct 12, 2008 in Misc | 3 comments

If there is one international Social Enterprise that makes us proud to be Malaysian, that will has to be the multi award winning organization call Science of Life 24/7 (SOLS 24/7).  They are one of the best non-formal education organization around and for the past nine years,  they have been educating youths (including drop-outs, low income families) who do not have the opportunity to further their studies. 

Being a non religious and non political organization, they have training centres in Cambodia, Timor-Leste and more recently in Malacca (November 2008). Raj Ridvan Singh a  former deejay and his brother, have dedicated their life to help the under privileged youth improve their life.  

The curriculum  of  SOLS 24/7 includes hard skills (English, Mathematics, ICT skills, Employment skills, Business Management, Taekwando), soft skills training (Leadership, Dynamism, Discipline, Responsibility, Love & Unity, Compassion) and lessons in social consciousness (community service, social hazards and vices). Armed with these sets of skills, the graduates of SOLS 24/7 will be more equipped for the future workforce.

Because of their recent relocation of their training centre, SOLS 24/7 is in serious need of 30 bicycles for their full time boarding students to be able to cycle to Restaurant Amitofu. Restaurant Amitofu provides 3 free vegetarian meals daily to the students, however getting there is quite a distant. It takes about 15 – 20 minutes just to walk there.

SOLS are looking for people to donate old bicycles to their centre. These bicycles will also provide a means of transport around Malacca town and it helps them develop to be mobile and independent.

The centre currently have around 50 students in the Malacca branch and only a handful of bicycles.

If you have an old bicycle that you are not using, please inform us or Raj at 012 6398 442

Note: Malaysia Entrepreneurs will be having a visit soon to the centre. Those who are interested pls drop us a line at editor [at] entrepreneurs.my

 

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Author: Daniel CerVentus (197 Articles)

Daniel is the founder of Entrepreneurs.my and a web producer that is involved in various projects such as ThisWeekInAsia.net and Earth247 He is very passionate about startups and entrepreneurship around the region.You can follow Daniel at www.twitter.com/cerventus

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3 comments

  1. Raj Ridvan Singh
    October 15, 2008

    Thanks for your Post bro.

    SOLS 24/7 Stands for Science of Life Systems 24/7

    Bro we’ve been around in Melaka since November 2007, we moved to our new training center in August 2008.

    Thank you once again :D

    Reply
  2. Izwan
    April 6, 2009

    hi there. its good to have a successful social entreprise in Malaysia. I am a malaysian however involved in SE in singapore. can we get in touch. I am a johorean staying in jb.

    Reply
    • cerventus
      April 8, 2009

      There are. Companies like Senedi, Malaysiakini and Evelvyn are some of the examples of these companies. We will be showing more soon.

      Reply

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