MOST OUTSTANDING YOUTH OF 2008 NOMINEES

Nominee No. 1
Anisa Nishat bt Mohamed Ismail (Anisa)

Born and bred in Malaysia, she grew up with her eyes wide open to the polarization in the local community...
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Nominee No. 2
Dhinu Dhanveer Singh (Dhinu)

Brought up in a family that’s on-the-go, he has traveled to various countries which include Papua New Guinea and Cambodia...
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Nominee No. 3
Indrani a/p Kopal (Indrani)

Raised in the city of Kuala Lumpur and the eldest of four siblings, she has been afflicted with a hormonal imbalance in her system...
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Nominee No. 4
Michael Teoh Su Lim (Michael)

A small town boy from Penang who was ridiculed by and rejected in school for being ‘weak’, he persevered through the odds...
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Nominee No. 5
Nyanamambiga a/p Ugjayan (Abby)

The eldest of three children, she sought to help with the financial burden in her family by offering tuition classes, despite...
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Nominee No. 6
Prakash a/l Suriyamurthy (Prakash)

Coming from an average family background and suffering from visual impairment, he struggled to secure a job...
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Nominee No. 7
Ummul Khairiyah bt Abdul Rahman (Ummul)

Born and raised locally, she defied the norm by stepping out to work at the early age of 18....
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YOUTH FRIENDLY COMPANY OF THE YEAR NOMINEES
Nominee No. 1
ARTS-ED
ARTS-ED or better known as Anak Anak Kota, is a community-based arts and heritage program that seeks to explore and provides innovative and non- formal arts an heritage education for young people...
Nominee No. 2
Life College
This is a college not driven by profits, but was birthed out of the desire to see young people’s lives transformed through education...


Nominee No. 3
ReCom.Org
Founded by Syamsul Hasran together with Mohd.Yusuf Abdul Hamid in year 2003, Recom.org emerged out of a dream to contribute to Malaysian students...
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Nominee No. 4
SMASH
SMASH recognizes that not all youths are ‘gifted’ to excel academically and she seeks to provide an atmosphere that nurtures those who are more talented in physical arts  - of which Malaysia hardly hears of...
Nominee No. 5
SPICES
SPICES (Support for Parents, Infants & Children through Early Services) was founded by the late Mabel Tan in year 1997, convinced that the solution to help children effectively was by paying purposeful attention to children...
 
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Congratulations to our winners!

MOST OUTSTANDING YOUTH OF 2008:

Dhinu Dhanveer Singh (Dhinu)

YOUTH FRIENDLY COMPANY OF THE YEAR 2008:

 
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