By YEONG XIU HUI
SUBANG JAYA: Students have been given a chance to share acts of kindness by taking part in the Pay It Forward initiative.
The student-run initiative started mid-October, in collaboration with Taylor’s University’s (TU) student-run restaurant Temptations and the TU branch of Deaf in Business (DIB) cafe.
According to one of the founders, Taylor’s Business School (TBS) student Raymond Thian Sie Yee, 22, the initiative was first conceived to help students who could not afford meals on campus.
The initiative aims to set up a food redemption system where students could purchase meals to be given out to others who needed them.
Thian said, “For now, we are working with Temptations and DIB so it is food-related, but we do not want it to end there.”
“This is still at its testing period and depending on the response, we may have different initiatives so that kindness as a lifestyle does not end there,” said Thian, adding that they hoped to encourage students on campus to make kindness a habit within their daily life.
Students could purchase a T-shirt and sponsor a meal at the same time for RM25, according to the Pay It Forward’s official Facebook announcement on 5 October.
Thian said proceeds from the T-shirt sales would be used as funding for any costs incurred by Pay It Forward’s projects.
Thian added that the initiative was set up to be sustainable and could be passed down to juniors in the future.
Pay It Forward organising chairperson Joel See Yue Jian said the initiative will create a sense of belonging among students by providing them with a platform to help others.
Pay It Forward is led by about 20 students from various schools such as TBS, School of Communication and School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts.
“At the moment, we are not recruiting anyone to help out with this initiative.”
“We will start recruiting from January to May next year,” See said.
For more information on Pay It Forward, visit their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/PIFtaylors.
The student-run initiative started mid-October, in collaboration with Taylor’s University’s (TU) student-run restaurant Temptations and the TU branch of Deaf in Business (DIB) cafe.
According to one of the founders, Taylor’s Business School (TBS) student Raymond Thian Sie Yee, 22, the initiative was first conceived to help students who could not afford meals on campus.
The initiative aims to set up a food redemption system where students could purchase meals to be given out to others who needed them.
Thian said, “For now, we are working with Temptations and DIB so it is food-related, but we do not want it to end there.”
“This is still at its testing period and depending on the response, we may have different initiatives so that kindness as a lifestyle does not end there,” said Thian, adding that they hoped to encourage students on campus to make kindness a habit within their daily life.
Students could purchase a T-shirt and sponsor a meal at the same time for RM25, according to the Pay It Forward’s official Facebook announcement on 5 October.
Thian said proceeds from the T-shirt sales would be used as funding for any costs incurred by Pay It Forward’s projects.
Thian added that the initiative was set up to be sustainable and could be passed down to juniors in the future.
Pay It Forward organising chairperson Joel See Yue Jian said the initiative will create a sense of belonging among students by providing them with a platform to help others.
Pay It Forward is led by about 20 students from various schools such as TBS, School of Communication and School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts.
“At the moment, we are not recruiting anyone to help out with this initiative.”
“We will start recruiting from January to May next year,” See said.
For more information on Pay It Forward, visit their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/PIFtaylors.