We have formulated a fifteen-year plan to uplift the Indian community and we have various projects in the pipeline to meet our vision. 

1. ‘Capture the Voice’ Project 

• Home visits to low – income and remote households weekly. 
• Our staff and volunteers visit homes of low income families in each State in our Pilot Project. These home visits are conducted to find out the actual needs of the families. 
• There families are referred to us by schools, government organization MPs or those who call us directly for assistance. 

• Connecting to these families directly will enable our volunteers to identify which reform program would be most suitable for them. This is the bottom up procedure that we will be using in all our projects. 
  

2. Workshops on Public Education 

• Public education workshops will be organized for parents and      students with schools and Indian organization. There include workshop a parenting skills, time management, motivation and study skill. MIYDF will work closely with teachers and government officials.  
• Trained leaders shall assess the needs of the relevant target groups and recommend suitable workshops.
• All parents work hard to provide the best for their children. We want our children to do well academically, be creative in music and arts, be multi-talented and much more.  In short, we want our children to study well and excel in life.
• There is a huge difference between providing the best for our children and equipping our children to bring out the best in them.  It takes hard work to provide our children with material things, good education and comforts in life.  However, bringing the best in your children requires sacrifices and dedication on the part of parents.
• The best thing a parent can do for his children is to develop strong character in them. A child with character is a child who knows how to make more right choices than bad choices. We aspire to have children who know how to choose the right friends, have strong ethical values in life and live a purpose-driven life. Thus, parenting has to be proactive and intentional.
• Our greatest challenge in parenting is how much influence we have over our Indian children, and for how long.

• In upholding the above spirit, MIYDF conducts public education workshops in schools and in youth communities for present and future parents. 

3. Workshop on Health and Hygiene

• This workshop strives to instill the values of healthy lifestyle within the hearts, mind, body and soul of every Indian child.
• On successful completion of the workshop, a student will be able to:-
• Understand the theoretical foundation and develop the required knowledge and skills to effectively manage health issues;
• Acquire an in-depth understanding and competence in health practices.
• Children attending the workshop will be exposed to healthy food and pyramid building, learn the importance of personal hygiene, correct way of brushing teeth, learn how to make their own sandwiches, tidy up their things, visit a dental clinic and participate in team projects.

4. Positive Package Project

• It has always been relatively easy to obtain information about the victims of crime from hospitals and police records. However, the experiences, views and motives of perpetrators are less well-documented.
• Thus this project aims to extract testimonies from ex criminals and thugs on why they chose to lead a life in the unlawful way.
• Through this we aim to obtain information about young criminals and what motivates them to commit crime.  
  Our findings thus far have revealed that a person's decision to commit crime is based on a range of complex and intersecting social, personal, and environmental factors.
• For an Indian youth, the boundary between being a victim and a perpetrator is seems blurred - young criminals have themselves often been exposed to high levels of victimization and have lived under severely adverse social and environmental conditions.
• It is these social and environmental causes of crime that need to be identified and tackled if youth crime is to be successfully reduced.
• Our findings have helped us become familiar with these social and environmental causes, and in seeking ways to address them.

5. Crime prevention Workshop

• We will focus on only one aspect of crime prevention – 'criminality prevention' – efforts to ensure that young people do not become involved in delinquent or criminal behaviour.
• This type of prevention addresses the social and environmental factors that determine the choices individuals make.
• Young people who get involved in petty acts of delinquency (minor crimes) at a very young age are likely to continue committing crime.
• It is vital that the prevention of youth violence begins at an early age, as it is more difficult to intervene once a pattern of offending has begun.  
• The role of peers in encouraging or discouraging crime becomes more important as the child gets older.  
• A person’s level of emotional strength will influence the methods, intensity, frequency and focus of their anger expressions.  
• Our findings confirm emotionally fragile youths are compensating for their weakness by taking the offensive and becoming hyper-vigilant and aggressive in response to emotional insult.
• This programme is designed to bring out the leader in the youth by exposing them to a whole array of leadership skills and management development, pitting them with youths of different gender, ethnic origin and religious background.
• This fully residential 3 day programme aspires to make them tolerant and appreciative of people of diverse backgrounds.
• Upon completion of the programme, the participants are expected to be strongly aware of the existence of the environment and issues of leadership, and the importance of being able to deal with the changing environment in leadership demands and the challenging workplace in terms of managerial expectations.  
• Our programmes focuses on esteem building, supporting them through their painful struggles instead of rescuing them, eliminating alcohol and other drug use as best we can, and holding them accountable for their behavior.  
• As youths learn to endure the pain and discomfort of life, they naturally build resiliency that lessens the pain and discomfort which, when coupled with problem-solving skills, gives them the competence they need for success.
• As a result of their common experiences shared throughout and beyond the programme, the participants are expected to be a coherent group with a strong commitment towards ethical values and society, ready to take on the challenges of leadership and play an active role in helping Malaysia attain Vision 2020. 

        

          Among Indian Youths in Malaysia 

• Integrated substance abuse and HIV education will be made available for youth and their families through this initiative. Services will be age appropriates, involve families, and allow youth to remain in the least restrictive setting so they can be served within the context of their families, their classroom and their community. 
• Instead of the traditional deficit-based approach to treatment planning and counseling (looking for and focusing on what is wrong), we start with what is right, uncover what is unique, and build opportunities for youth to express themselves and contribute to, and be part of, a group.   

• Youth Immersion Workshop is a programme dedicated to involving today’s youth in today’s problems.
• Poverty and inadequate housing remains one of these problems and this programme is an opportunity to see first hand some of the social issues that create situations where families are without safe, decent and affordable housing, while also getting to impact the lives of families by helping to build a home. 
• The objective of this workshop is to; Ensure the most basic needs of the poor, for life and livelihoods, are met. This is more than just food for health and dignity: it must also include water for food security and adequate nutrition and water as an input into sustaining livelihoods.
• We focus on opportunities rather than problems created by poverty. Food should be seen as a positive contribution to poverty reduction rather than just the source of ill-health and social alienation that are key parts of poverty.
• This programme aims to demonstrate that the youth of today are the change of tomorrow and that their commitment to social problems will be the sustaining from in the fight against issues like poverty.    

• This training envisions preparing needy Indian youth candidates for new jobs in a demand-driven economy. 
• This training has taken on new importance for workforce system efforts to create a skilled, well trained and demand-driven workforce. 
• MIYDF’s economic network will serve as a catalyst to connect youth with quality secondary and post secondary educational opportunities and high growth and other employment opportunities. 

       Objective

• To help students gain self-awareness, where the students learn their interests, values, skills, and personal preferences
• To link students’ self-awareness to available opportunities—to suitable careers, and their occupational possibilities.
• To help students make decisions, develop action plans and set goals to achieve their chosen careers.
• To help students to plan their job search.    

        

        WORKSHOP  Self Managing Leadership

• For anyone who have the responsibility for leading others through a period of chaos, the demands can be unbearable unless they have exceptional self management” skills. 
• These necessary skills include integrating priorities, clarifying purpose and values, learning to focus mental energy and the development of authentic communication skills.

Objective 

• Facilitators are the most essential asset of this organization because they are the critical influencing factor that spearheads the organization's success or failure. 

Benefits of Attending  

• Understand the comprehensive role played by human resource management in people management. 
• Examine the attendant disciplinary problems associated with behavioural problems and de-motivation and consequent actions to be initiated. 

The broad range of activities is designed to address the whole student: 

• They encourage the development of both cognitive and effective skills
• They build intrapersonal and interpersonal social and emotional skills and value-based perspectives and behaviors

They will be engaged in the following: 

• Conflict-resolution exercises
• Discussions
• Games
• Communication exercises
• Role-playing
• Mind-mapping
• Creative writing
• Imagining and relaxation/focusing exercises
• Story telling/singing/cultural activities

The most effective way of conducting this Weekend Camp is by having a maximum of 100 students from the four schools in the constituency at a centre every weekend for 12 weeks. The approaches are as follows: 

• Child-centered
• Flexible and interactive
• Adults act as facilitators

There will be four experienced educators to conduct the program.  
 

The students will be divided into four groups.  
 

This Weekend Camp Program will be unusually comprehensive. It will offer both methodology and content. Facilitators teach values through modeling and facilitating a values-exploration process. 
 

Facilitators will reinforce positive character traits and emotional intelligence in all students. One key to its effectiveness is the lack of moralizing. “Resistant” students or marginalized youth turn away form a moralizing approach to character education.  
 

In this camp, facilitators will assist and help students explore the effects of values while respecting their right to judge for themselves. 

• The Indian Youth Leadership Programme is specifically designed to develop young Indian men and women between the ages of 21 and 35, who have leadership potential and to prepare them for the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead of the nation as it aspires to attain Vision 2020. It also develops qualities of leadership skills and managerial talent among the Indian youths of the nation.
• This programme is designed to bring out the leader in the youth by exposing them to a whole array of leadership skills and management development, pitting them with youths of different gender, ethnic origin and religious background.
• This fully residential programme aspires to make them tolerant and appreciative of people of diverse backgrounds in a series of outdoor activities, lively and thought-provoking classroom discussions, and community services. 
• Upon completion of the programme, the participants are expected to be strongly aware of the existence of the environment and issues of leadership, and the importance of being able to deal with the changing environment in leadership demands and the challenging workplace in terms of managerial expectations.

• As a result of their common experiences shared throughout and beyond the programme, the participants are expected to become a coherent group with a strong commitment towards ethical values and society, ready to take on the challenges of leadership and play an active role in helping Malaysia attain Vision 2020.