Our Story
Hi, I'm Inbaraj, the team leader of Social Ideas. For the past 1 year, we have been planning to setup a social enterprise to promote the sustainable development of underprivileged (rural & urban-poor) communities in Malaysia, especially on access to basic amenities, healthcare, child education, the environment and socio-economic agendas through creative ideas & socially-conscious technologies. SOCIALIDEAS will be set up to achieve two parallel missions; sustainable community development and the promotion of socially-conscious business activities. This is to ensure that the enterprise will be able to remain sustainable and not depend on donations to run its future operations.
Backed by a team of socially-conscious professionals from diverse backgrounds with various skills & expertise, SOCIALIDEAS aims to be the leader in sustainable community development in this country. This group also aims to break new grounds in developing socially-conscious “green” technologies and implementing them on the field to tackle the many issues they may face on both the social and business fronts.
As a social enterprise, we are fully committed to utilize all profits generated through our business activities to further develop our human resource and fund the social mission.
The Team
Inbaraj Suppiah - Entrepreneur
Ahmad Hafidz Baharom - CSR Consultant
Dr. Neesa Amran - Health Expert
Sasitharan Nagappan - Environmental/Civil Engineer
Badí‘ Yee Tzyypirng - Educationist
Raj Ridvan Singh - Social Entrepreneur
The Impact
Although Malaysia is a fast developing nation, there is a huge economic gap between the wealthy, middle class and extremely poor rural communities. On one front, the government is developing many industries, but at the same time, many rural/native communities are left behind without even basic amenities as mentioned above. We believe that with our expertise and adequate funding, we will be able to uplift the socio-economic standards of these underprivileged communities.
Taken from our initial proposal which we presented to some potential investors:
OBJECTIVES
Social Mission - Sustainable
Community Development (Rural & Urban Poor)
1.
Facilitate sustainable socio-economic
development for underprivileged communities in Malaysia.
2.
Develop a pool of human
resource with capability in undertaking SCD programmes.
3.
Create opportunities for
corporate and private sponsors to get directly involved in SCD programmes.
Commercial Mission - Socially-Conscious
Business Development
1.
Establish socially-conscious
business activities to generate revenue for the organization.
2.
Initiate community-based
business ventures to generate revenue, develop the local economy of
underprivileged communities and create job opportunities for its members.
ACTION
PLAN
Social Mission - Sustainable Community
Development (SCD)
1. Facilitate sustainable socio-economic
development for underprivileged communities in Malaysia.
·
RECON - Identify underprivileged
communities that urgently need assistance in issues related to basic amenities,
healthcare, child education, the environment and socio-economy through field agents
or volunteers. Conduct detailed study on the field and document the needs as
every community will have different needs. This process will require multiple visits to
the selected communities.
·
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
(R&D) - Perform R&D to discover sustainable solutions and technologies
to solve the issues identified in the RECON process or apply solutions that
have been already developed in previous project areas.
·
FUNDRAISING - Initiate
fundraising programmes through website, social media and also directly approach
corporate sponsors to fund the development projects.
·
IMPLEMENTATION - Implement the
desired solutions with cooperation and active involvement from the local
community, relevant authorities and experts.
·
TRAINING - Develop local human
resource and empower them to manage & maintain the solutions in a
sustainable manner.
·
ASSESSMENT - Perform evaluation
on the effectiveness and sustainability of the completed projects.
·
REPLICATION - Replicate the
successful solutions in other communities with similar needs.
2.
Develop a pool of human resource with capability in undertaking SCD
programmes.
·
Recruit fulltime SCD project
coordinators & assistants and provide the necessary training.
·
Create short-term internship
programme for tertiary students to gain experience in SCD work.
·
Create a volunteer support
group to assist with SCD projects and awareness programmes. Includes
encouraging tertiary students to start-up social enterprise clubs in their
schools.
·
Network with other social
entrepreneurs, social organizations and people who are interested in order to
share knowledge and resources through monthly workshops.
3. Create opportunities for
corporate/private sponsors to get directly involved in SCD programmes.
·
Publish online reports on
on-going SCD projects and list down specific sponsorship opportunities.
·
Provide online payment
facilities for sponsors to easily contribute.
Commercial Mission -
Socially-Conscious Business Development
1. Establish
socially-conscious business activities to generate revenue for the organization.
Some of the suggested business activities:
·
CSR Consultancy & Training
i. Assist business organizations to implement in-house CSR programs
using their own workforce and spend their CSR funds efficiently.
ii. Organize training programmes on CSR and “social enterprise”.
·
Social Agenda Web TV
i. Launch a Web TV to promote social ideas and organizations.
ii. Produce documentaries on in-house social projects and other social
enterprises & organizations in Malaysia in order to spread their work to
the public.
iii. Generate ad revenue.
2. Initiate community-based
business ventures to generate revenue, develop the local economy of
underprivileged communities and create job opportunities for its members.
·
Homestay Eco-Tourism
·
Sustainable Farming
·
Local Logistics Service
