City revival boy

Environmental Sustainable Design ARC 1413/1412 Project 01

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ENVIRONMENTAL

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN ARC 1413/1412

PROJECT 1

MY COMMUNITY, MY COMMITEMENT

Exploring the sense of environmental and community

engagement as future designer

Group Members:

Cheah Teck Wei0315215

Yap Kar Juen 0313737

Chew Ung Heng 0315397

Tsang Hao Ren 0315753

Chua Jiu Xin 0314025

Submission Date: 14/11/2014


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INDEX PAGE NUMBER Project Proposal

1

1. Introducton

2-4

2. Project Statement and Objectives

5-14

3. Life Cycle Analysis

15-16

4. Work Distributions

17-20

5. Budget and Expenses

21-22

6. Community Contributors

23-24

7. Outcome and Results

25-29

8. Reflection

30

9. References

31

10. Attachment

32-


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Project Proposal: City Revival Boy’s Home

As ones that are with complete family are no doubts living in a blissful life as

compared to the orphans. Hence, using the opportunity we had in this project, we had chosen

to carry out a community project to help the orphanage. The orphanage that we had chosen to

help out is named “City Revival Boy’s Home” which is an orphanage only for boys with a

total of 15 kids in the house aging from 5 – 13. Through our visit and interview to the baby

sitter in the house, there are a few problems that are faced by them which is the health

problem of the children and the lack of manpower to help in the house which they have only

3-4 female helper in the house that are not able to carry out heavy duties. In this project, we

are planning to help them out with the works that they cannot carry out and make some

prevention that can decreases the chances of the children from getting sick.

In this community project, we will be mainly helping to repair broken things in the

orphanage, such as the timber chairs, basketball ring and a specially designed recycle bin. We

are also going to put nets on the doors of the orphanage to prevent entering of rats that is

believed as one of the reason that caused few of the children in the house having fever in a

week which is seriously harmful to the health of the kids. Besides, we will be helping out in

cleaning up the orphanage such as mopping the place, and also clearing the wild grasses

growing at the garden of the orphanage. The project will be carried out 4 hours twice every

week for 2 weeks in the studio or our home. The project mainly benefits the children in the

orphanage and also the helpers that stay together with them estimating a cost of rm200 –

rm300. Sponsorship for the project is obtained as in donation from the people/student from

the University or outsiders. The materials used in this project will be fully utilized with as

less wastage as possible and by using environmental friendly/recycled material. The working

of the project will be carried out in a way with no harm to the environment.


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1. Introduction

1.1 OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT

1. To increase awareness of current environmental issues locally

2. To induce creativity in attempting to explore the current environmental circumstances

3. To allow students to explore the opportunity to work with the community and for the

community

4. To create awareness of the importance of creating and environmentally sustainable

product/design/services

5. To be able to understand and explain the principles of sustainability from environmental

and social perspective


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1.2 Organization

City Revival Boy's home

CITY REVIVAL COMMUNITY SERVICES BHD (CRCSB) was founded on 13 Feb

2009 as a non-profit charitable organization, a public company, limited by guarantee. It was

formed to care and serve the community based on Christian principles.

The Board of Directors of CRCSB are Rev. Suresh Sundram (Chairman), Dr. James Sada

(Director) and Bernard Teh (Director).

City Revival Boy’s Home is established on 2006 sheltering children that come from

dysfunctional families. At the Homes, the children are given a fresh opportunity to live in a

family environment filled with love, hope and security. At present, they have 15 boys in the

house aging from 5 to 13 having proper education. CRCSB is governed by a Managing


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Committee comprising of Dr. James Sada, Kong Keng Piew, Simon Benjamin and Dr.Rhema

Sundram. Together, they oversee the activities of CRCSB and the welfare of the Homes.

1.3 Reasons why we engage to this site.

Children is the backbones of a country, they have the potential of being a talented individuals

which could contribute to the development of our country. Hence, every child should be

treated fairly and provided with well-education. Unfortunately, there are some which is

unfortunate where their parents passed away due to some incidents, abandoned by his/her

parents, and so on. All of these unfortunate ones will be sent to the orphanage taken care by a

few of kind souls, providing them a better life with love and care.

As ones that came from blissful families, we decided to take the opportunity of this project

engaging to the orphanage, helping the unfortunate ones with what we can do with the best

we can give. The orphanage is always neglected by the community and left without care and

they often meet problems and situation where they cannot solve it by themselves. Our main

job scope is to lend a helping hand to them and thus to promote, raise awareness of the

community towards them.


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2. Project Statement and Objectives.

2.1 Identified Issues

A. Metal Doors

The paint of the metal doors is in bad condition. It had already begun to peel off from the

gates. This is both dirty and also hazardous for children as they might accidentally consume

the peeled off paint unknowingly.

B. Dining Chair


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A lot of the dining chairs present on the dining room had broken down or in need of repairs.

A lot of the nails had started to loosen or parts of the wood detached.

C. Basketball Board

The only source of games and sports there is the basketball ring. Unfortunately, the ring had

broken and also the board supporting.

D. Renewing License

They wanted to renew their license for their organization and wanted recycle bin in order to

do so. Other than that, the stack of newspaper collected in the orphanage had no place to put

except on the ground.


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2.2 Proposed Solutions

A. Metal Doors

To tackle this problem, we decided to repaint the metal doors there. We are planning to use

non-toxic paint. This can help prevent children from consuming it accidentally if the paints

ever fall off again.

B. Dining Chair


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Ideas:

1. Repairing the chairs

2. Buying new chairs

3. Creating new chairs

Considerations:

Buying new chairs and making new ones would mean to have contribute with the use of more

timber. Repairing the chairs would not only help save cost but will also avoid throwing them

out when still in working condition.

Conclusion:

To prevent any accidents from happening, we decided to repair the chairs and also increase

the support for the chairs. To do so, we might require simple carpentry tools and extra

wooden plank for increase support to the chairs.


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C. Basketball Board

Proposed plans:


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To repair the basketball board, we decided to fix the broken board and attach a new ring to it.

Since its nearly impossible to create a solid basketball ring that can withstand the force of the

basketball with the tools we had. We decided to order a new basketball ring and attach it

ourselves.

D. Newspaper

Since the owner requested it, we are going to design a recycle bin for the orphanage. This

would not only help organize the place a bit but also help promote recycling to the children

living there.

Proposed plans:


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2.3 Problem Solving

A. Repainting of metal doors:

All the metal doors (3 exactly) had been repainted with yellow paint. Each door was painted

with 2 layers of paint for better quality of work as instructed/advised by the paint seller.

B. Repairing of Dining Chairs:

After analysing the chairs and identifying the source of the problem, we concluded that all the

chairs were poorly made and had insufficient support for long term using. We planned how

we can repair the broken chairs and also improve the chairs to last longer. More wood were

added to the legs of the chairs to help support the force.


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C. Basketball Board:

To fixed the basketball board, we had to planned carefully on how to repair so we won’t

made it worse while trying to fixed it. To repair the basketball ring, we installed a wooden

board on the broken area of the board. With that, we finally screwed the basketball ring to the

board.

D. Building a Recycle Bin

As requested by the owner there, we also build up a recycle bin for licensing purpose. It is

also a great practice for children to learn to save the environment.


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3.1 Materials Used:

a. Wood

Wood is considered a more environmental friendly because it has low carbon foot print

compared to other products. Timber production also makes a positive contribution to

reducing carbon emissions by being part of the short term carbon cycle that involves trees

absorbing carbon dioxide from the air, releasing oxygen and storing the carbon in the

wood.


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b. Steel and iron

Metal extraction is one of the major pollution problems. Mining caused a lot of serious

problems, materials being dug and processed to extract the esired metal while leaving a

large amount of solid waste, which can cause the high concentration of metal in the soil,

and slowly deteriorate the balance of ecology of the environment.

c. Paint

The paint also does have environment impact to the environment by releasing VOC’s

(Volatile Organic Compounds) to the environment. These organic compounds are

routinely added to paints to enhance performance. Luckily, the paints made today are now

considerably cleaner than before.


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4 Work Distributions

4.1 Work Distributions

As a group with only 5 members out of maximum of 10, most of the works we are required to

carry out by all of our members:

- Acquiring sponsors

- Doing the report

- Site Visit

Name Before During After

Cheah Teck Wei Site Visit

Proposal

Acquiring materials.

Repainting gates.

Making of Recycle

Bin (R.B.)

Repairing Basketball Ring

Repairing chair.

Completing of report.

Yap Kar Juen Finding site

Site Visit

Acquiring Permission to Site.

Acquiring materials.

Repainting gates.

Making of R.B.

Repairing chair.

Repairing Basketball Ring

Video editing.

Tsang Hao Ren Site Visit

Design of recycle

Repainting gates.

Making of R.B.



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bin. Videographer.

Repairing chair.

Repairing Basketball

Ring

Chew Ung Heng Site Visit

Proposal

Design of recycle bin.

Repainting gates.

Making of R.B.

Repairing chairs.


Ring


Chua Jiu Xin Site Visit

Photographer

Video Recorder

Repainting gates.

Making of R.B.


Ring

Repairing chairs.

Video editing.


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4.2 Work Progress

DAY COMPLETED

TASK

IN PROGRESS ASSIGNED BUT

NOT

COMPLETED

COMMENTS

WEEK I

29/8/2014 -

5/9/2014

Briefing of Project Selection of Site

WEEK 2

6/9/2014 –

12/9/2014

Shown the site we had chosen n

some ideas on our objects

based on the need of the site.

Identified the problems that

faced by the orphanage house

Find sponsor

WEEK 3

13/9/2014 –

19/9/2014

Found sponsors to buy the paint and materials

worked together for clearing and cleaning the site

Proposals on the site to show for tutorial session

WEEK 4

20/9/2014 –

26/9/2014

Acknowledgment letter had shown

doing the painting work

designs of the Recycle Bin and Basket Ball rings

Approval final design from lecturer for the

objects

WEEK 5

27/9/2014 –

3/10/2014

Finalize the both

designs and the materials of the

objects and get approval from the lecture.


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WEEK 6

4/10/2014 –

10/10/2014

Execution work

on site

WEEK 7

11/10/2014

17/10/2014

Making of the

recycle bin and

the basketball

rings

WEEK 8

18/10/2014-

31/10/2014

Shown 30% of

report to be showed for next tutorial session.

Need to done 70%

of the report

WEEK 9

1/11/2014 –

7/11/2014

Done 50% of the

report needs to

the lecture.

WEEK 10

8/11/2014 –

14/11/2014

Completion of

work on site

Report and video

editing


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5. Budget and Expenses.

5.1 Budget and Cost.

A. Budget

Type Description Amount

Donation

Cash Rm207.60

Sponsorship

Cash Food for fundraising – Ice Cream Potong (300pcs)

Rm500

Fund Raising

Food Sales Rm398

Total Rm1105.60

B. Expenses

Type Product Description Quantity Cost Total Paint Paint Seamaster Paint Super

Glo High Gloss Finish 6648 Fiesta Orange

1 Rm23.30 Rm23.30

Paint Paint Seamaster Paint Super

Glo High Gloss Finish 6669 Sunrise Yellow

2 Rm23.30/pc Rm46.60

Repair Basketball Ring

Red Basketball Ring coated with anti-rust

paint.

1 Rm50.00 Rm50

Hardware Plywood 1x2x8 Plywood 4x6x8

3/8x6x8 0.5x18x36

0.5x14x24 Custom Length plywood

3 1

1 1

1 1

Rm8.80/pc Rm18.90

Rm8.00 Rm16.00

Rm9.00 Rm13.50

Rm26.40 Rm18.90

Rm8.00 Rm16.00

Rm9.00 Rm13.50

Hardware Sandpaper A4 size sandpaper

5 Rm0.60/pc Rm3.50

Hardware Paint Brush Low quality Paint Brush

Paint Brush

1

3

Rm1.50

Rm6.80/pc

Rm1.50

Rm20.40

Hardware Thinner Lady Bug Brand

Thinner

2 Rm4/bottle Rm8.00


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Hardware Steel Wire Mesh

12feet Steel Wire Mesh 1 Rm3/ft Rm36.00

Hardware Steel Plate Custom made Steel

Plate

1 Rm35.00 Rm35.00

Hardware Screw and nails.

Variety of sizes- Screw Nails

- Rm0.50 Rm1.50

Rm0.50 Rm1.50

Hardware Bolt and Nuts

Bolt Nut

4 4

Rm0.50/pc Rm0.50/pc

Rm2.00 Rm2.00

Hardware Hacksaw Hacksaw 1 Rm18 Rm18

Hardware Hardwood Custom Size 1 Rm18 Rm18

Hardware Wire Cutter 1 Rm20 Rm20

Hardware Wood Handle

Plywood Handle 1 Rm4.50 Rm4.50

Total Rm382.60


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6. Community Contributors

6.1 Sponsors

A. Lee C.K Food Productions

Type of sponsorship: Food for fund raising.

Amount: Ice Cream Potong Sinwah 300pcs.

B. Alpha Hope Sdn. Bhd.

Type of sponsorship: Cash

Amount: RM200

C. Yap Brothers Sdn. Bhd.

Type of sponsorship: Cash

Amount: Rm300

D. Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus, Sunway Pyramid Community.

Type of sponsorship: Cash donation

Amount: Rm207.60


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6.2 Acknowledgement

We would like to express my deepest appreciation to all those who provided us the

possibility to complete this report. A special gratitude we give to our lecturers whose

contribution in stimulating suggestions and encouragement helped us to coordinate our

project.

Furthermore I would also like to acknowledge with much appreciation the crucial role

of the City Revival Boy’s Home person-in-charge, Mr Kong, who gave the permission to

help the them. A special thanks goes to all those whom donated to us for the funding we

needed. Last but not least, many thanks go to the head of the project, Yap Kar Juen whose

have invested his full effort in guiding the team in achieving the goal. I have to appreciate the

welcome given by the boys’ in City Revival Boy’s as well.


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7. Outcome and Results.

7.1 Progress and Results.

A. Repainting the gates.

The paint of the

gates of the City

Revival Boy’s Home

is stripped and

rusted inside. Thus it

might cause wound

to the children.

Anti-Toxic Yellow

Paint is used to

repaint the gates. A

bright colour is used

to give a more

positive feeling to

the house.

Final product after

painting, rusted

areas all covered

with aesthetic colour

scheme.


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B. Adding a recycle bin.

The dimensions of

the recycle bin were

measured and cut

out.

Wire mesh is

prepared and cut as

part of the design

and acting as a semi-

permeable wall for

the recycle bin,

allowing looking into

it.

Group members

working together to

build the recycle bin,

the connecting parts

were connected

used nails.

Side wall is made up

first to provide a

supporting structure

for other parts.

The wire mesh is

added to the inner

wall of the recycle

bin.

The sides of the wire

mesh is cut as the

edges of the wire is

very sharp and

might cut the hands

of the recycle bin

user.

The cover is made

using plywood

connected with

hinge to the

structure which

allows it to open and

close.

The side wall of the

recycle bin is painted

with orange paint to

enhance its

durability/ resistant

towards water.

Added the logo of

recycling on top and

finally its done.


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C. Repairing broken chairs.

The structure of the

chairs was loose

thus making the

whole chair unstable

while sitting.

After measuring the

length of the gap

between the legs of

the chair, long

plywood is cut.

Nails were

hammered into the

chair and connecting

the plywood.

Nails were

hammered into both

sides of the

plywood, thus

enhancing the whole

structural strength.

Children can now sit

on it in safe.


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D. Repairing the basketball ring.

Determining what’s

wrong with the

basketball ring.

A new basketball

ring is bought to

install on it.

By using a drill, holes

to slot in the bolts

and nut for the

basketball ring to be

stand stable on the

basketball board.

The basketball ring is

locked onto the

board between two

pieces of steel piece

with bolts and nuts

to avoid direct

damage to the

basketball board and

ring.

The ring and board is

then screwed and

tighten on a top of

the pillar.

Finally the basketball

ring is fixed and

available for the

children to play.


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8. Reflection

We were very grateful that we were able to finish this project. We were assigned a 5-

man team instead of a 10-man for this project, putting us in a huge disadvantage, halving our

man power. Nevertheless, we pulled thorough and completed our given project. Struggles had

always seem to be this part of the experiment followed by hardwork. We struggled to find a

community, struggle to find donation and also struggle finish everything in time. But with

continuous team work and efforts, we were able do all of it. That have given us a great sense

achievements and joy upon completing this project.

In our time at the community, we were to see and feel the harsh reality the boys are

living in, reminding us how much of a “fairytale” our life was to them. Even so, we were glad

there was a non-charitable organization like this existed to help the children, improving their

life by many folds, just like a blessing, a strain of hope in their lives. All these made us felt

grateful of our life, giving us a reason, a motivation to give. Everytime, before we leave, the

kids would ask us the same question, “will we be coming back again?”, this really broke our

hearts. Just meeting them for a few days was enough for them to enjoy our company and miss

us. It tells us that how much they wanted a person to play with and looked up to. It sadden us

to have to tell them we completed our work and won’t be coming so frequent anymore, but

we assured them we would visit again if given the chance. In the least, we can tell them that

“we will be back”.


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9. Reference

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november 2014]

Diane Kukich (2001). Tracing the environmental effects of metals. [ONLINE] Available

at: https://www.udel.edu/PR/UpDate/02/2/tracing.html. [Last Accessed 13 November

2014].

Environmental Considerations. [ONLINE] Available at:

http://www.paintquality.com/going-green/environment/low-voc.html. [Last Accessed 13

November 2014].


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Attachment


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MINUTES OF MEETING

CHAIRPERSON: CHEAH TECK WEI

SECRETARY: CHEW UNG HENG

ATTENDEES: YAP KAR JUEN, CHEW UNG HENG, CHEAH TECK WEI, CHUA JIU

XIN, TSNAG HAO REN’

ABSENTEES: -

DATE: 5/9/2014 TIME: 10:00 LOCATION: DESIGN STUDIO 1

Topic Suggestion on site chosen

Brought to attention by Everyone

Contents of discussion Teck Wei Chosen as our group leader

Suggestion as Orphange, Old Folk Home, Prostitution

and Anti-Drug Society given by group members

Discussion on the steps in doing for our project

Action required Research on the site we suggested and get their basic

background information so that we can discuss on the

object that we can make for them and noted down

Get their contact to ask their permission after we have

decision of the site.

For tutorial session, we will be showing the site we had

chosen n some ideas on our objects based on the need

of the site.


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MINUTES OF MEETING





ABSENTEES: -

DATE: 8/9/2014 TIME 1:00 LOCATION: LIBRARY LVL 5

Topic Site Chosen

Brought To attention by Everyone

Contents of discussion City Revival Boys home as our final Decision that was

approved by our lecture during tutorial session.

We discussed to make a recycle bin based on the site

needed for the education purpose.

Chosen a date to visit the orphanage to house to

observe what they needed based on the condition of the

site

Teck Wei volunteered be the one who in charge for

transportation

Distribution of work

Action required We will be going the site on Wednesday after

requesting from the person in charge to more

understanding what they need

Distribution of work among our group members

Fund Raising- Teck wei, Sean& Chew

Sponsers- Hao Ren& Jason

We need to finalize the objects that we will be making

for the orphanage house after the site visit

Chew and Teck will prepare the proposal on the aiming

we want to acheive


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MINUTES OF MEETING





ABSENTEES: -

DATE: 14/9/2014 TIME: 3:00 LOCATION: E 3.04

Topic Objects chosen for the site & clearing of site

Brought To attention by

Everyone

Contents of discussion

We discuss on the materials that will be used to make

our objects which are Recycle Bin and Basketball

Rings that was approved by our lecturer.

We discuss on the location and time to get our

materials and paints.

We decided to have gotong –royong to clean and clear

the orphanage house on the day we chosen, next

Wednesday

Action required Find sponsors to buy the paint and materials

Everyone has to bring all the tools needed for the

gotong-royong purpose.

Everyone working together for clearing and cleaning

the site Discuss with the person in charge for the object

we had chosen to get approval for the next step

Jiu Xin will be the one who taking the videos along the

project.


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MINUTES OF MEETING





ABSENTEES: -

DATE: 19/9/2014 TIME: 11:00 LOCATION: Design Studio 1

Topic Design of the Objects


Everyone


Distribution of work of the object designs

Discussion on the date to do painting for the site and

the colour chosen

Letter of acknowledgment was required

Discussion to separate the money from sponsor for

each purpose.

Action required Distribution of work of the object designs

Recycle bin: Hao ren & Kar Juen

Basketball rings: Chew& Jiu Xin

Teck Wei will in charge for the acknowledgment letter.

We need to buy the paints on this Saturday with the

money donation.

We will do the painting work on this Sunday at 10:00

a.m. by bringing all the tools and paint.

Prepared some designs of the Recycle Bin and Basket

Ball rings for the tutorial session.


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MINUTES OF MEETING





ABSENTEES: -

DATE: 26/9/2014 TIME: 2:00 LOCATION: TIAN CHU RESTORAN

Topic Objects Materials and Way of Making it


Everyone


Discussion about the design of the objects with the

suggestions by lecture

Discussion about the materials that will be used for the

objects and the way of making it in proper way

Distribution of work for proposal and video editing

Discussion on the date and time to buy the materials

and the tools for making it

Discussion for the date of next site visit for making the

objects

Action required Finalize the both designs and the materials of the

objects and get approval from the lecture.

Distribution of work for proposal and video editing

Report: Hao ren, Teck Wei and Chew

Video Editing: Kar Juen and Sean

At 27/2014, we going to buy those materials and tools

We had chosen 5 Oct as the date for our next site visit to the

orphanage.


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MINUTES OF MEETING





ABSENTEES: -

DATE: 3/10//2014 TIME: 1:00 LOCATION: LIBRARY LVL 2

Topic Making of Object


Contents of discussion Based on the Final design, We discussed on the way

how we making the objects step by step

Distribution of work in Site Visit

30% of the proposal need to be done to show lecture

for next tutorial session

Action required We will be going the orphanage house this sunday

which is 5/10/2014 along the materials and tools we

bought.

Distribution of work

Making of Recycle Bin: Teck Wei, Chew & Kar Juen

Making of Basketball rings: Chua Jiu Xin & Tsang

Hao Ren

Reparing of Chair: Chew, Teck Wei and Hao Ren

Chew, Hao Ren and Teck Wei need to done 30% of report to

be showed for next tutorial session.


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MINUTES OF MEETING





ABSENTEES: -

DATE: 10/10//2014 TIME: 1:00 LOCATION: LIBRARY LVL 2

Topic Works on report and video edit


Contents of discussion Distribution of leftover report

50% of the report needs to be showed to the

lecture.

Video need to be shower for some part for the

lecture next tutorial

Action required Distribution of leftover report

1. weekly work progress-Kar Juen

2. Budget and expenses + reference +

Community Contributers-Jiu Xin

3. outcome and results-Teck Wei

4. acknowledgments and reflection- Hao Ren

5. minutes of meeting - Chew

City revival boy

Education

community project

project statement

community engagement

community contributors

sense of environmental

house aging

city revival boys homeas

blissful life