Monica Bay Clean-Up Camp Proposal

Overview: This camp will be a joint activity between KVK and SMK Bukit Kuang, in order to
build cross-school connections and increase community stewardship. As ETAs, we hope doing
this English camp early in the semester will help us get to know students more intimately and
communicate to them what the ETA’s role in their schools is by making learning English more
fun and accessible. We hope to make environmental awareness and community stewardship a
theme for our work this year, and see this beach clean-up English camp as a way to begin this
theme on a strong note, where the students can see the discernable difference in the positive
effects of their impact at the end of the camp day.

Objectives:
1. Have students gain English environmental vocabulary and general ecological knowledge.
2. Help instill a sense of environmental awareness, stewardship and civil service in students.
3. Provide an informal and fun environment for students to employ their English
conversational skills, particularly in practicing their new environmental vocabulary
during the beach clean-up and engaging in English during team-building “beach
Olympics” activities later in the day .
4. Create an opportunity for students to see the human impact of littering as well as the
positive effects that their actions can have in terms of environmental activism (pictures of
the beach before and after).
5. Have students meet and interact (potentially) with students from SMK Bukit Kuang to
help build cross-school relationships and practice social and networking skills.
6. Help develop a desire in students to continue environmental activism, which can be
expressed throughout my year with them in further environmental lessons, trips and
workshops.

Initial Work: Leading up to the beach clean-up, I will focus my English lessons on
environmental issues, both building awareness as well as a sense of responsibility and
stewardship. Students will learn the repercussions for littering/pollution (habitat destruction,
species endangerment, etc.) before seeing firsthand the human impact of littering at Monica Bay.
They will build an English environmental vocabulary as well as general ecological knowledge
that will be applied on the day of the camp at Monica Bay.

Target Groups: Year 1 from KVK and Forms 4 and 5 from SMK Bukit Kuang, about 30-40
students from each school

Proposed Camp Schedule: Beach clean-up in morning followed by lunch and “beach
Olympics” style activities in the afternoon
● 8:30-9:00- Volunteers arrive
● 9:00-9:30- Students arrive
● 9:30-10:00- Short welcome and overview of the day
 ● 10:00-12:00- Beach clean-up
● 12:00-2:00- Lunch and prayer
● 2:00-4:00- Beach Olympics, craft activities, etc.
● 4:00- Students leave, volunteers leave after everyone else is gone

Budget for Bukit Kuang:

No. Items Quantity Price per Total Price Subtotal
Unit

1 Food- lunches 40 RM5 RM200 RM200

2 Food- breakfast 40 RM .80 RM32 RM232

3 Food- drinking water 40 RM2 RM80 RM312

4 Transportation 1bus RM100 RM100 RM412

5 Stationery for 1/2 page 1 ream of RM20 RM20 RM432

fliers paper

6 “No Entry” tape 1 roll RM10 RM10 RM442

7 Garbage bags 10 packs RM8 RM80 RM522

of 50
bags

8 Supplies/Prizes for Beach RM300 RM300 RM300 RM822

Olympics
Grand total: RM822

Logistics:
Transportation:
● SMK Bukit Kuang will use an outside bus company to transport students from SMKBK
to Marina Bay and back
● KVK will use the school's bus to transport students
Trash Disposal:
● The Municipal trash district will be contacted about their assistance in disposing of trash
collected by students; Mickey and Alix volunteer to take the recyclables to Pahang
Facilities:
● INTAN has agreed to let our camp use their prayer room during lunch; the opening
introductions and lunch will be held on the beach
Sponsorship:
● Several local businesses have agreed to contribute to funding the camp
Public Awareness:
 ● Mickey and Alix will create a flier with information about SMKBK and KVK's clean-up
efforts, as well as general information about the beach and trash disposal, to be
distributed by students in order to spread awareness about the cleanup and hopefully
increase community involvement going forward.

Potential additional activities:

1. Use some of the trash collected (after being cleaned) for a recycled art project (potentially
take pictures of these art pieces for a KVK Review workshop/submissions).
2. Use some of the trash collected (after being cleaned) to help teach students recycling
differentiation as well as trash disposal methodology.
3. Depending on the success of and student interest in the program, plan additional beach
clean-up trips with students.
4. If students are interested, continue with efforts in Environmental Activism Club: school
mural focused on environment, workshops & continued lessons on ecological issues,
camping and hiking activities, films about climate change/environmental issues, trip to
Turtle Sanctuary or Mini Zoo (of particular interest around hatching season).