About MySkills Foundation
Below is an overview of the projects we are supporting on the platform, their status as well status updates for projects that have been funded
our Team
Devasharma Gangadaran
HQ Manager/Project Leader
Our Values
MySkills campus is a sanctuary for youth at risk and allows them to become responsible citizens via our Holistic Transformation Skills Training. We use a holistic approach that has impacted more than 800 youth over the past 9 years. The training model comprises of Emotional Skills, Life Management Skills, Social Skills and Vocational Skills. The full residential program focuses on 70% of character building and 30% on skills training. The campus location, daily schedule and staff provide an enabling environment for value-based education and market relevant skills training. MySkills students also participate in community work, enterprising for social needs, arts & culture, sports, parent engagement, goal setting and continuous monitoring. Our training program lasts about 2-3 years and we do keep track of our graduates for another year after arranging their job placement.
MySkills Foundation through past 8 years, had undergone critical development to serve the youth at risk community. 2 years of renting two blocks in Taman Tan Yew Lai, Puchong followed by 6 years of renting Kompleks Hentian Pelabuhan Klang (MPK), Port Klang were our learning milestones before stepping into our long-awaited campus. In the year 2014, we acquired 31 acres of building land in Kalumpang, Hulu Selangor from Danaharta to build a campus to foresee larger impact in the intervention for youth at risk.
MySkills Foundation is recognized for its intervention dedicated to youth at risk. In year 2015, World Bank Group together with Economic Planning Unit released a report named “Achieving a System of Competitive Cities in Malaysia- Main Report” in which MySkills Foundation’s work was cited and recommended to be upscaled by the Malaysian Government. In year 2016, Myskills Foundation was also incorporated in Malaysian Indian Blueprint and acknowledged for the campus building which serves a holistic intervention for 1,000 at-risk youths. Local News Media, The Star Newspaper under Star R.Age journalist team worked with MySKills for almost 3-4 years, covering topics on Dropout scenario, Indian Dilemma in Malaysia, and campaigns for anti-bullying with gangsterism. MySkills was recently awarded by Chinese philanthropic community to receive the prestigious Tan Kah Kee Award along with the late Tan Sri Yeoh Tiong Lay (YTL Corporation).
The strategic public-private partnership is our key to our next sustainable model for the campus. We set futuristic objectives to reduce operating cost and increase internal revenue generation to keep the campus self-sustaining. Zero rental, reduced utility expenses, self-cooking, farming and social enterprises will be the main components in the campus development. One of the social enterprise start-up (MyBakery) won “Entrepreneur For Good” award by Arthur Guinness and British Council which evolved to De’Divive Café that sustained more than 3 years now.
Therefore, by providing multiple facilities, the students are expected to experience diversified training days in the campus that adds value to the character re-engineering. The existing potential in each of the students are developed respectively to ensure holistic human values are formed.
MySkills is a Tax Exempt Charitable organization in Malaysia and also gained US Public Charity status via Equivalency Determination validated by NGO Source for a grant provided LinkedIn for Good and Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Vision : At-risk youth become economically independent and responsible citizens.
Mission : Provide second chance opportunity for at-risk youths to acquire fundamental social, living and workplace skills to ensure that they are integrated into mainstream society. We equip at-risk youths with market relevant skills training to open up windows of opportunity for them to be gainfully employed.
MySkills Foundation was established on 3rd March 2011 to manage Primus Institute of Technology; to carry out transformational activities and promote skills training pathway for youth at-risk. Every year almost 7,000 Indian students dropout from school system before reaching SPM and approximately another 2,000 Indian students fail their entire subject in SPM.
These at-risk population contribute to either constructive formation of structured gangsters and organized crime or bottom 40% of the Indian community deprived of socio-economic growth. (Based on Crime & Socio-Economic Index shared by Bukit Aman, Prison Department and Economic Planning Unit) MySkills Foundation governs Holistic Transformation approach which majorly focuses on character re-engineering (Social Skills, Emotional Skills and Life Management Skills) that complements with Vocational skills training competency.
MySkills Foundation started its operation in Taman Tan Yew Lai in the year 2010, and later moved to Kompleks Hentian Pelabuhan Klang in September 2012 until December 2018. Currently, the Foundation operates in its own campus (35 acres) located at Kalumpang, Hulu Selangor. MySkills Youth Transformation Campus campus caters specially for teenagers (from 13 years upto 19 years old) whom are the potential dropouts in secondary school system. The campus is also missioned to be self-sustaining and enterprising medium for youth at-risk.
In year 2015, Prime Minister’s Department had approved RM 10 Million for the building cost for this project (Total cost is RM 20 Million). MySkills new campus measuring for 35 acres can accommodate 400 students with full-fledge facilities for Administration, Skills Training Workshops, Accommodation (Student & Staff), Cafeteria, Toilet Complex, Surau, Indoor Sports Centre, 2 Football Fields, and Basketball Court. Schools (both Primary and Secondary) and local communities in Hulu Selangor district are actively being engaged to collaborate with MySkills for skills training and character development programs since year 2018.
More than 1,000 students have graduated from MySkills are engaged by SMEs, Multi-national companies and local firms (close to 100 over Employers) for the past 10 years of MySkills Foundation’s existence.
MySkills Foundation also received tax-exempt organization status accredited by Ministry of Finance and US Public Charity Status by Council On Foundations, USA. World Bank, Economy Planning Unit (EPU) and Khazanah Nasional had visited MySkills Foundation in year 2015 to prepare the Main Report on “Achieving a System of Competitive Cities in Malaysia” in which MySkills intervention model was recommended to be upscaled and replicated in other segments of critical at risk youth population.
MySkills partnered with Economic Planning Unit, MITRA (earlier known as SEDIC), Human Resource Development Fund, JP Morgan Chase Foundation, HSBC, Yayasan Hasanah, Credit Suisse, LinkedIn for Good, Junior Achievement, Genting Malaysia, 3M, NLFCS and KLK for operational grants.
MySkills Foundation was honoured with “Tan Kah Kee Award” in 2018 by Chinese philanthropic community alongside with late Tan Sri Yeoh Tiong Lay (YTL Corporation) and another recognition of “Entrepreneur For Good” award in 2015 by Arthur Guinness Projects and British Council evolved our social enterprise De’ Divine Café that sustained for more than 3 years.
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