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Projek Afiat: ARBA Foundation | Hospital Labuan | PERKIM
Our recent work in Labuan with the team! Through our partnership with Unit Kerja Sosial Perubatan Klinik Kesihatan, Projek Afiat provides essential support and cash relief to vulnerable patients struggling with illness, financial hardship, and the responsibility of raising school-going children. The initiative ensures they receive necessary equipment support, and assistance. To reach more families in need, the Projek Afiat is actively expanding to the Central, Northern, South
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Hebatnya Lelaki, Hebatnya Generasi
“A good man builds more than a home, he builds a generation.” Sempena Sambutan November Bulan Keluarga Kebangsaan Peringkat Negeri Selangor.
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Festival Idea Putrajaya 2025
It’s been an honour for ARBA Foundation to stand among dreamers, doers, and changemakers across ASEAN as part of this national movement that celebrates ideas, innovation, and humanity. When knowledge meets compassion, we move one step closer to a world shaped by empathy, ethics, and purpose. Thank you KPT Malaysia and everyone behind Festival Idea Putrajaya 2025 for creating a space where knowledge truly comes alive. Together, let’s keep nurturing ideas that lift lives and bu
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Redefining Poverty Eradication in ASEAN: Multidimensional Perspectives, Evidence and Pathways for Inclusive Development
Redefining poverty is more than providing aid. It’s rebuilding pathways, dignity and opportunity. Here in PICC, thought leaders across ASEAN come together to chart a new, inclusive future because every family deserves the chance to thrive.
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Ungku Aziz Memorial Forum 2.0: The Hidden Dimensions of Poverty
Beyond numbers lie stories. Stories of struggle, resilience, and unseen barriers. This forum explores The Hidden Dimensions of Poverty. What we don’t see and what we must understand to end poverty.
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Making Occupational Therapy Accessible for Low-income Families with Autistic Children
The collaborative framework between ARBA Foundation, Ungku Aziz Centre, and Universiti Malaya researchers is underway to co-develop low-cost, community-based occupational therapy models. The goal is to build a sustainable system that allows every child regardless of income to access the support they deserve. We’ll be sharing updates soon as this partnership takes shape from pilot sites to parent training modules and research findings that guide better inclusion for all. Your
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Money Reveals What is Inside a Person
When blessings grow, let our heart grow too.
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From 60% to 5%: Malaysia's Journey out of Poverty
While we’re still in the spirit of Merdeka, remembering the courage that built our nation. Let’s not forget the remarkable achievements over the years. A historic progress worth celebrating, yet the journey isn’t over. Source: Mr Apurva Sanghi and World Bank Malaysia calculations based on DOSM for various years.
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Miskin Bandar: Dari Zakat ke Keberdayaan
From Zakat to Empowerment 💪 Although zakat and empowerment are two different approaches, both can complement each other. Zakat provides assistance to meet basic needs while empowerment aims to overcome poverty through skill development, job opportunities, and economic strengthening. Through this live session with invited panels, this issue will be discussed in more depth. Watch online on sinarharian.com.my this Friday, 15 November!
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ARBA Foundation Participation in Malaysia's FATF Mutual Evaluation (ME)
Malaysia is currently undergoing the ME exercise under the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and ARBA Foundation is one of the chosen Non-Profit Organization (NPO) to represent Malaysia. On Monday, our team has attended workshop provided by The Bank Negara that was conducted by trained ME assessors from Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Australia, that aims to provide familiarity on the actual ME on-site interview processes. One of the scopes of the ME process is the on-sit
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3 Main Challenges in Philanthropic Work
Solving poverty is a complex issue with no easy solutions. It's a multifaceted problem influenced by variety of factors and addressing poverty requires a comprehensive approach that tackles these underlying issues. As one of the invited panelist, our CEO discussed the three main challenges in philanthropic work : 1. The simplistic judgement or understanding of what works and what doesn't work for social projects. 2. The counterproductive nature of business entities in philant
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Majlis Anugerah Kecemerlangan & Apresiasi 2024 SMK Pendidikan Khas Setapak
“We may be blind, but we can see dreams.” Baru-baru ini kami dijemput untuk meraikan kecemerlangan beberapa anak-anak istimewa yang kami bantu di SMK Pendidikan Khas Setapak dalam bidang akademik, sukan, kokurikulum dan sahsiah. Anak-anak ini datang dari semua negeri, bukan dari Lembah Klang sahaja. Majoriti mereka adalah dari kalangan keluarga B40. Ada yang nampak macam normal tapi sebenarnya dia tak nampak, ada yang nampak macam buta tapi sebenarnya dia masih boleh nampak w
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Invitation from Zurich Malaysia's Team
An invitation from Zurich Malaysia's team. We had previously collaborated in the recent year and today we're humbled by both CEOs, Tn Shamsul and Pn Fatihah interest in our "Projek Adiwira". A program to unleash hidden potentials for children from low income families in an out-of-school enrichment program. They believe that sport is an effective path out of poverty for youth. While working on the existing material poverty initiatives, our team is also currently in developing
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We're Top 12 Most Transparent!
We are so happy to receive this amazing news! Charity giving is all about trust and our team have worked our best to be as transparent we can. We believe that, when everyone is informed accurately, generosity grows. Thank you so much for all the support given in ARBA Foundation. We could not be more grateful 🙏
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How One Teacher Taught The Class: A Powerful Lesson About Privilege
What we think about least may be the place from which we can do the most good. Each of us has some form of ordinary privilege or even...
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From Vision to Action: The Framework Proposal for The National Poverty Policy
Here today to share our thoughts and suggestions to the policy-drafting process based on Ungku Aziz Centre (UAC) study's final findings....
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Financial Action Task Force Assessed Country Training
ARBA Foundation is selected to represent Malaysia for the Anti Money Laundering and Terrorism screening by The Financial Action Task...
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Lembaga Zakat Selangor Round Table Discussion: Aspiration to Eradicate The Urban Poor
In support of Lembaga Zakat Selangor (LZS) round table discussion on the Aspiration to Eradicate The Urban Poor, with the theme...
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Dialog Poket Rakyat: Realiti Kemiskinan Multi Dimensi
Kami telah menerima jemputan untuk membincangkan tentang Laporan Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan atau "Living on the edge" oleh UNICEF yang baru...
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A Day with Khazanah Research Institute
The opportunity that our team has been looking forward to! The Khazanah Research Institute (KRI) carries out research on the pressing...
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