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R.E.A.C.H. was one of thesuccessful eighty-four applicants

who received a conservation andenvironmental grant from the Ford Motor Company totaling RM7,500.

The Ford Grants presentation Ceremony7 October 2004 at Hyatt Regency

Saujana, Subang.

Naga DDB Sdn. Bhd. a majornational advertising agency recentlywon two bronze awards for itssubmissions in the Outdoorphotography campaign and thePrint campaign in MalaysiasIndustry Wide AdvertisingAwards 2004. Both photographswere taken pro bono to supportR.E.A.C.H. in its environmentalconservation efforts.

One of the two bronze awards won by Naga DDB Sdn. Bhd in the Malaysian

Industry-Wide Advertising Awards 2004competition.

R.E.A.C.H. would like totake this opportunity tothank the Ford MotorCompany and DDB Naga

Sdn. Bhd. for theiruntiring efforts and supportfor R.E.A.C.H. and theenvironment of CameronHighlands. We would alsolike to thank our newParliamentaryRepresentative, YB S.K.Devamany who also gaveus a generous donation of RM4000 and Tengku

Datuk (Dr.) Zainal Adlin ,Chairman of WWF, andthe WWF trustees whodonated RM3500.

REFORESTATION AT G. BRINCHANG

This ongoing project washeld several times duringthe past nine months. Thedenudated, illegitimatelycleared virgin jungle is

being replanted with Medang, Eugenia, and Rhodendronsaplings.

An enthusiastic group of volunteers from NEWCO a health

food and cosmetic company

participated in the reforestation project last June.

A new Medang sampling.

The results of thesereforestation exercises areencouraging. Despite the hard,barren nature of the soil,R.E.A.C.H. has recorded asuccess rate of over 80% fortransplanted samplings.

CAMPING TRIP TO SG.WI WATERFALL

About 10 men, women andchildren went on a two km hiketo the Sg. Wi waterfalls (locatedabout 20 km from Kg. Raja) n

the 22-23 May.

R.E.A.C.H. AGM

Members of R.E.A.C.H.are hereby informedthat our AGM will beon:

SATURDAY

15 JANUARY 2005

HERITAGE HOTEL3 PM

AWARDS

COMMUNITY

EVENTS

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NIGHT SAFARI

Seventeen people ranging

in age from 10 74, wenton this moonlight jungletrek along Sg. Jasar. Theprimary aim of this tripwas to gather pertinentinformation regardingfrogs in their naturalhabitat. The trek was ledby our very own, capableMr. Kali.

COMMUNITY GOTONG-ROYONG

R.E.A.C.H. was invited toparticipate in a communitygotong-royong on the 11October, to clean up thearea around Parit Falls.This event involved alllocal governmentdepartments and wasorganized by theDepartment of theEnvironment.

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R.E.A.C.H. started itsrecycling project in 2002.When it was firstimplemented, it was solely amember and volunteer project.However, in the past year, aconcerted effort was also madeto include the community inthis noble task.

The first stage involvedinteractive talks in schools,hotels and local residentialapartments. Schools involvedthus far are SRJK(C ) TanahRata, SRJK(T ) Tanah Rata,SRJK (T ) Blue Valley andSRJK ( C ) Brinchang. Hotelsparticipating in the projectinclude The Heritage,Strawberry Park Hotel,Kowloon Hotel, ParklandHotel and The Star RegencyHotel.

The apartments involved wereDesa Anthurium, Park Viewand Oly. The only bank thathas invited R.E.A.C.H. to talk about recycling and has carriedout active recycling isMaybank.

The restaurants taking part areKowloon Restaurant, T- Cafand DChennai Curry House inTanah Rata. There are also afew bungalows like the SungaiRuil Shell bungalows, theNippon Paint Bungalow andthe OMF Bungalow that arealso actively participating in

recycling. Many volunteersfrom all over the district arealso involved, for without theirco-operation the project wouldnot have been a success.

Our project can be consideredfairly successful, as we havehad two other community-based organizations namelythe Community Eco-TourismAssociation (CETA) fromKuala Gula, and the FrasersHill EnvironmentallySustainable Heritage (FRESH)visiting us to see and learnhow our project is beingimplemented. We were alsoinvited to Kula Gula to give atalk on community recycling.

To date, we havetransported about twenty tonsof recyclables to the recyclingplants in Ipoh and Penang. Ourproject has progressed to theextent where the recyclablesare stored at participating sites

and the vendors collect themand pay the participantsdirectly. With this monetaryincentive we hope moreestablishments will beinvolved in recycling.

Our next step is toinclude the new villages in thedistrict. With the co-operationof the local authority this willdefinitely be possible andsuccessful.

Clothes, shoes and toys.

Besides recycling, we have alsoset up a centre where clothes,shoes and toys are collected anddonated through NGOs workingwith the Orang Asli . To this dateabout a ton has been collected.

REPORT FROMRECYCLING

TEAM

Do we have to reach thisstage before we care for the

environment?