STORY PREVIEW

2023

HEALTH & WELL BEING: A TRIP TO BE-WELL WITH RATNA PAKAJA (TMx I CAN: Superheroes for change)

SMK SAUJANA UTAMA

SELANGOR

MENTOR

SALWANI SALLEH

Step 1 FEEL

List the challenges or problems in your surroundings (school,neighbourhood etc.) that bothered you.

We discovered that school pupils have been struggling to maintain their lifestyles, especially teenagers who tend to face more challenges during adolescence. We observed this and recognized the need for a positive change in the future.

State the problem chosen to work and why.

We decided to create an environment where students can feel safe and comfortable sharing their lifestyle journey, and where everyone has access to a strong support system and educational resources to help them achieve their ideal lifestyle at their own pace.

Who were the people affected by the problem? What were their primary concerns?

As students, we recognized that the majority of our peers have difficulty being confident in their image, whether it's related to their lifestyle, abilities, or even their body image. We are aware that they are highly self-conscious about their appearance, and this has become a significant concern among teenagers. Given that some of us also grapple with self-esteem issues, we saw this as the perfect opportunity to launch this project, where we can guide our friends to be more compassionate towards themselves.

Step 2 IMAGINE

List ALL the different solutions you came up with.

We have sat together and unanimously agreed as a team on various absurd and out of the box solutions and here they are: 1. Weight loss challenge among students, teachers and school staff 2. Cultural festival involving traditional cuisines, sports and even health talks. 3. Creating an E-booklet to share healthy traditional recipes to everyone. 4. Coming up with a culinary forum. 5. Creating a website that comes with many assets such as a bmi calculator, calorie counter, traditional recipes from different cultures and many more. 6. Preparing a market visit campaign

Which solution from those listed above did you choose to implement and why?

After analyzing each and every solution whilst also considering our total donation from our school's Parents Teacher Association, we decided to carry on with building our very own website and hosting a weight loss program. I) Website building- We decided to build our very own website to give a more personalised andcustomized solution for those out there who are undergoing difficulties with their weight loss journey. As we all know losing or gaining weight to become healthier can be extremely difficult especially for students, teachers and staff members who can't find the time for it in their daily lives. Therefore, we have prepared a site where these Individuals can easily calculate their bmi, proper calorie intake and also be recommended with many traditional yet healthy Malaysian cuisines. Our website brings our users on a personalised journey in maintaining a healthy lifestyle all by keeping it original.

Step 3DO

Describe very briefly the process of implementing your solution(s).

First and foremost, we as a group sat together and discussed the various ways we could carry out our solutions. For instance, we discussed the layout of our website, the assets that will be involved in our website, programs that we are willing to prepare using the donation prepared for us by the Parents Teacher's Association and many more. Moreover, we even interviewed many students and school staff members on their daily diet and soon released that most of the school's population were victims of unhealthy food consumption. From this, we submitted our findings to a professional dietitian and a specialist in Obesity to help us gather and widen our knowledge on this topic. Finally with the help of our technology teachers we were able to build our website seccuesfully. Furthermore, we even hosyed our weight loss challenge which all ended amazingly. We were able to share the word of our solution to this issue with the help of social media. Social media platforms such as Tiktok. Instagram and so on really were our lifesavers as the saying goes not all heroes, wear capes. In conclusion, our solutions really were able to solve the daily world problem that we first realised which was the concern of Malaysians when it came to Obesity.

What was the result or impact of your project?

Many people supported our project. Some website users even complimented on how our website is easy to use Our website has been used by more than 1000 students and teachers in such a short period of time. Moreover, by using our website participants of our weight loss challenge have been able to reach their dream by achieving their desired weight. Among the winners for this challenge the student has lost up to 8.2 kg in total whereas a teacher lost up to a total of 6kg which is just magnificent to say the least.

How many people were impacted by your solution(s)?

1000

What did the impacted people have to say about your project? Provide 2 quotes or testimonials:

They said that they would heavily recommend the website since it is really easy to use. Another quoted how our website was truly a lifesaver during their weight loss journey Our websites received many amazing and positive reviews which suprised us quite a bit and here a few of those quotes from our users: Wieght loss journey winner (syahirah) : The Web really helped me to track my calories during my hogging and running hours which realky helped me. Moreover, not only are the recipes extremely mouth watering but still so healthy which is such a catch. Reviews left by our users on our website: 5 star review- This website really helped me during my weight loss journey. Highly recommend it. Reviews like these were the ones that really pushed us to break through our limits and soar higher to success.

What challenges did you encounter while implementing your project, and how did you overcome them?

limited time. Everyone had different ideas so we had to learn to compromise a few things in order to produce an end product. We drafted a product built with sub-ideas and finally pieced the building blocks together to produce our website. We went through many failed attempts and trials before finally coming up with a functional website.

How long did it take to implement your solution?

MORE THAN 30 DAYS

Which global goals does your story align with?

Good health and well being

Please explain briefly why do you think so?

In our opinion, this issue should be taken seriously as Malaysian despite being a rather small nation our name has been spread amongst other countries for a rather bad reputation. Malaysia has the highest prevalence of obesity among adults in South East Asia. In the 2019 National Health and Morbidity Survey, 50.1% of our adult population were reported to be overweight (30.4%) or obese (19.7%). This is seriously unfortunate and we as students decided to play a role to improve this situation in the future

Step 4 SHARE

How did you share your project with your school and community? Who did you share your project with? What was their response?

we created a website and launched a programme in support of this plan, which we had shared with among students and teachers along with the public through multiple ways such as giving a pep talk during our morning assembly,sharing session with sksu students,giving out bookmarks that can access our site and spreading awareness through social media.The overall responses were positive and the community highly praised our website.

Approximately how many people did you share your story of change with?

More than 100

Briefly share your plan to sustain the impact of your project?

We continuously kept up with our social media posts daily.Other than that we have been upgrading and innovating our current website to reach worldwide influence. As a result, we are trying to help more people implement healthier eating habits in their daily life for them to stay in shape.

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