English Enrichment Programme with YES

Dear all, oh what exciting news awaits you!

In an effort to foster relationships between the AFS Returnee and the YES Alumni, SK Taman Keramat, Gombak has invited us to conduct an English Enrichment Program at their school this 3rd of November (Wednesday).

So here's your chance to give back to the society!

Drop your names and contact numbers to Jim Chua (jim91_dc@yesalumni.afs.org.my) or contact him via FB. He'd be very happy to hear from you and share further details with you :)



Then you can be like,




Ok. Just kidding.

AYA Performance Updates!

Dear all,

Just a quick updates for those currently interested in participating in the AFS Malaysia performance for the upcoming AYA Awards Night.

Rehearsals will commence on 29th October until 4th November.

Time from 4pm till 7pm per rehearsal session.
Location is yet to be confirmed, but it will definitely be within Klang Valley/KL area.

The AYA Awards Night is on the 7th November 2010 at 7PM-11Pm at Panggung Bandaraya, DBKL. All rehearsal and sound check for the performance is on the same date (7th Nov) at 2PM at Panggung Bandaraya DBKL.

For those who are interested in participating in this exciting nationwide event can drop us an email at suyin.chia@volunteer.afs.org.my with your contact details!

See you there at the rehearsals!

p/s for more information check out the blog post below =D

AYA Awards Performance

Before you scroll down this post, there are some things you should probably know.

Firstly, what is the AYA?

AYA stands for the Asian Youth Ambassadors (AYA), a non-profit youth organization whose mission is to nurture young people to be the best that they can be and to be of service to others.

What about the Awards thingy?

The AYA Awards was set up back in 2005, to acknowledge, reward and further encourage good work and deeds by Malaysian Youth.

Okay...so what does it have to do with AFS Mas Alumni?

Wah! I can't believe you don't know this! Last year the AFS Antarabudaya Malaysia was awarded the Youth Friendly Company of 2009 by AYA.

Look look! That's us represented by Ms. Shazalyna (5th from right) and Kenneth Chin, founder of AYA (5th from left)

Why we won?

Because we're awesome-lah. What else?
(Okay so there IS much more depth to that answer, but it all boils down to because we're awesome to begin with :D)




Oraits! Now that we know what the background story is between AYA Awards and AFS Mas Alumni, lets talk about the important part of this blog-post. *drumroll please*


AFS Malaysia is invited to perform at the 6th AYA Awards Night at Malaysia's Heritage Building on the 7th November 2010 (Sunday)

Therefore, we are looking for YOU to be involved in the performances! The National Office would like to suggest that we returnees can collaborate with our hosted students to perform a combination of 5 Malaysian traditional dance: the Zapin Melayu, Indian Candle Dance, Chinese Fan Dance, Sabahan Bamboo Dance and the Sarawakian Ngajat Dance.

The Finale will be a sign language performance of the AFS Song.

Dance practice is scheduled to start on 24th October until 4th November 2010. So if you would like to be INVOLVED, please do send us a mail at suyin.chia@volunteer.afs.org.my


If you want to read more about the AYA Awards, log on to AYA Awards Website. And while you're there, browse around and send in your votes for THIS YEAR's 2010 finalist for all categories! Get involved today!

Annual General Meeting

The AFS Antarabudaya Malaysia Annual General Meeting was recently held at the Mandarin Court Hotel Kuala Lumpur on the 2nd October, 2010. The fruitful meeting saw the coming together of volunteers, returnees and staff of various ages, racial, ethnic and even religious background in the united vision of voting for the future of AFS Malaysia. As such, AFS Malaysia Alumni would like to congratulate the four dedicated and visionary volunteers re-elected to serve for the next two terms as AFS board member:

Dr. Yahya Mat Hassan

Mrs. Khalilah 'Kelly' Dato Mohd Talha

Mr. Bernard Poobalan

Mr. Thiruchelvam

We would like to thank all who took the time and effort to exercise participate in this year's AGM and have exercised your right to vote as an AFS member. For *those who were unable to make it this time around, there is always next year so make sure you come!

On another joyous note, 2010's AGM is particularly memorable and significant for us here in the AFS Malaysia Alumni because, for the first time ever, the AFS Malaysia Alumni was invited to take part and participate in the Chapters Presidents’ meetings held alongside the AGM. The leaders of our Alumni were given the privileged platform to address, understand, and help give solutions to current and potential problems arising in all AFS related programs.

The AFS Alumni President Chong Cheng Yee and Vice-President Suraya Zainuddin both expressed their heartfelt appreciations to the National Office for including the Alumni within their ranks of discussions. The AFS Alumni is looking forward to continuing our strive in doing our very best in helping to anticipate the needs of AFS Chapters as well as provide help in volunteer support as needed. We hope to serve well in our goal to develop a reserve of well-informed, all rounded volunteers in the future.

Till then,

We'll see you again next year at the 2011 AFS Antarabudaya Malaysia Annual General Meeting!


* voting privileges only comes with the official AFS membership (RM20 for 2 years or RM300 for lifetime). Please call the national office @ 03 77224866 / 77254966 for more details.