EVENT & VISIT

01 OCT 2020, 01 OCT 2021

International Day of Older Persons

Since 1990, the United Nations has designated October 1st as “International Day of Older Persons”, to emphasise the contribution of the elderly to society and shedding the spotlight on problems of the aging population in the world today. In acknowledgement and support to this global movement, Unilifesity held “The International Day of Older Persons” campaign from October 1st to 4th, 2020 and also on October 1st to 3rd, 2021.

This series of events was sponsored by the Kendek Foundation, and was jointly organised by Unilifesity, Xin Art Space and Persatuan Kebajikan Warga Emas Kasih Sayang Malaysia, Sin Chew Daily and ‘Love Always’ Life Education Alliance AiFM and MyDaai Channel as the official media. This event series was rich in programs, including forums, talks, exhibitions, activities, elderly research, etc. The events were held at Unilifesity and Xin Art Space. Besides that, most of the activities were also held online and via Facebook live, to allow those who were unable to attend on site to participate in the event together.

2 OCTOBER 2021

2021 Unilifesity Veteran Spiritual Awards

Malaysia will be expected to transition into an aging society by the year 2030. To embrace these changes, Unilifesity has been shedding the spotlight in hopes to appeal to and care for the elderly from all aspects of life.

Organised by Unilifesity and co-organised by Persatuan Kebajikan Warga Emas Kasih Sayang Malaysia and Xin Art Space, the “2021 Unilifesity Veteran Spiritual Awards” aims to recognize the contribution of senior citizens in the community as well as to encourage the elderly to participate in community activities in order to make a positive impact on society and to raise awareness of ways to care for the elderly. This event has also invited AiFM, Sin Chew Daily, ‘Love Always’ Life Education Alliance, MY DAAI Channel as the official media.

25 AUG 2019

VISIT TO TAIWAN SENIOR EDUCATION

Since 1993, the population of the elderly persons has reached 7% in Taiwan, and it has officially entered an aging society by then. Taiwan began to promote advanced social education at that time, started to

increase welfare and services for the elderly person that provide various preferential treatment and facilities.

There is almost a perfection from Taiwan’s social education and welfare as the Long-term Care 1.0 program has been implemented for years and the Long-term Care 2.0 program in recent years. In order to understand Taiwan’s pattern and model in fields of operating, resource management and challenges encountered, Unilifesity Learning Center decided to visit Taiwan on August 25th, 2019 to gain more knowledge.

Unilifesity Learning Center has visited many different types of elderly service centers such as Taipei Zhongshan Seniors Housing and Service Center, Taipei Fuhua Senior Multi-Service Center, Stella Matutina Social Welfare Foundation, and Lin Chenghui Foundation. In addition,

some centers like Liu-Kuei Christian Mountain Children’s Home, which has the same philosophy of caring about people was also visited by Kendek Unilifesity.

Through this rare opportunity, Unilifesity Learning Center recorded interviews with several senior instructors, including Dr. Yu Chia Chen, Associate Professor of Citizen Service Management Department and senior of National Tainan Junior Nursing College, Dr. Lin Siang Jyun, Professor of LOHAS and Future Studies Department, Fo Guang University, Dr.Ho Chen-Yu, Assistant Professor of Social Work Department, National Quemoy University and more. These senior advisors shared their own experiences and suggestions to Kendek Unilifesity and Malaysians who are new to this area of welfare.

Great gain of knowledge was obtained in Taiwan even though it was a short trip. Mixed feelings were brought back from the visit and not only so, development potential of elderly service sector was also discovered. This has laid the foundation of developing education plan for elderly person.

19 JUN 2019

HARI RAYA GATHERING

-PAKSI RAKYAT ARTIST

The Artists Gathering is a local collective of artists. This is an open-minded group of local Malaysian artists and this event brought them together for a night of sharing. The purpose of this gathering is to give artists an opportunity to express themselves in front of an open-minded or judgement-free group of artists and like-minded individuals. Xin Art Space hopes to spread encouragement to people who do not yet view

themselves as artists, and to promote local art.

19 MAR 2019

VISIT TO ORANG ASLI COMMUNITY,

KUALA KRAU

While almost every Malaysian is aware of the Orang Asli community, there always appears to have a pervasive divide between urban Malaysians and this group of natives. This visit aimed to see how the aborigines live in a totally different way from ours by knowing these people, their villages, shelters, and activities as they live in a very basic lifestyle.

23 FEB 2019

BOOK LAUNCHING

“THE SINGER FROM THE PENISULAR, THE WHITE - PAW DOG & FIRECAKE”

Launching of new books and poetry recitation session of Fang Lu by Chua Tian Chang, better known as Tian Chua.

02 NOV 2018

SHARING SESSION - KULAI, JOHOR

By sharing thoughts and ideas with Batu Bahat Eng Choon Association and MBA Long Hua Senior Citizen Community, the leaders from respective associations believed that with concerted efforts, they would be able to scale new heights and educate more people with lifelong learning.

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