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Table of contents..1 Introduction..2 Objective..2 Activity2 Observation and Reflection Gan Jin Wei.3 Observation and Reflection Choo Yih Lin...4 Observation and Reflection Eugene Yow.....5 Observation and Reflection Wong Jun Kit...6 Conclusion.. 7 Appendices.... 8-12 References... 13

Introduction The world today is complex and sophisticated. Malaysia being a developing country has undergone rapid changes. The task of higher education is made more challenging with its needs to impart and retain traditional values, while at the same time moving towards knowledge based society. As the youngsters are to be the future leaders of the country, it is vital to prepare us with the necessary social skills and moral strengths that can help guide us in decision making behaviours. A community service project has been shown to have a powerful influence on the students learning.Charity work benefits the students in a number of ways acquisitions of new learning skills, improvement of social skills, and improvedconfidence and self-esteem (Voluntary work, 2005). Lamsam, De Young, and Piper (2000) who investigated nursing students experience s in service learning reported many benefits from a service learning approach. They found that these students learned to respect other individuals, enhance their understanding on the needs of others, improve their confidence in interacting with others, and increase their communication skills. All these values correspond with the moral values that Moral Studies is trying to instilin its students. The students participation in the experiential learning will develop a sense of patriotism and communal values befitting a civil and caring society (Yaacob & Quek, 2005). Similarly, McKenna & Rizzo (1999) examined the impact of service learning on the students and found that it gave a positive impact on the students. The learning increased the students understanding of the course concepts, able to relate to the differences in others, and nurtured their self-confidence. (Azlin HJ Alwi, 2006). Objective The following are the objectives of the community project: To help promote both intellectual and civic engagement by linking the work they do in the classroom to real-community needs; To encourage them to explore their own values through working with the charity organization; and To experience the joy of giving; To foster a caring and compassionate behaviour; To create an experience for students to be an involved citizens; and To provide valuable opportunities for them to enrich learning through hands-on activities. (Azlin HJ Alwi, 2006). Activity We have visited the SPCA Selangor on 13th April 2013, Saturday. Our team, as funding committee, planned to raise fund by selling cupcakes and souvenirs to the visitors. From the fund obtained, we could buy foods and shampoo for the dogs and cats as our little contribution.

Observation and Reflection- Gan Jin Wei (22546804) First, I would like to express my gratitude towards my lecturer, Regina Chan, for giving us an opportunity to pay a visit to SPCA Selangor on 13th April 2013, Saturday. It was my very first time visit to SPCA and I gained a lot of precious experiences through this anticipation. When we reached SPCA Selangor in the morning, we were given some short briefing by the personin-charged. From the briefing given, I got to know some of the people in charged are volunteers and they get no pay. This shows that they are care and compassion towards stray dogs and cats. After that, we volunteered ourselves to change the newspapers on the base of the cage. I feel that cooperation in between us has made the work easier and faster. Besides, by changing the newspaper, we can ensure that their cages are in a more hygiene condition and prevent the bacteria from spreading to the surrounding. I feel sympathy towards the stray cats and dogs as some of them are very sick and paralyze. Besides, I got to know that some stray dogs and cats are ready to be adopted by kind people. After completing our first task, we, as funding committee, plan to sell some cupcakes and souvenirs to the visitors to raise fund for SPCA. Unfortunately, due to time constraint, we got not enough time to set up the booth and sell things to visitors. Thus, we changed our plan and collect donations among ourselves. I am glad that all of us are generous enough and make the funding committee a great success. From the donations obtained, we bought ten packs of 10kg rice and some shampoo for the stray dogs and cats. SPCA shows their appreciation towards our donation as we did contribute a little towards SPCA. From this visit, I feel that our society should create more awareness towards homeless dogs and cats. For example, campaign like adoption for stray dogs and cats should be held more frequently. Besides, we should educate and inculcate our future generation to love animals more.

Observation and Reflection Choo Yih Lin (24253189) In the beginning, I would like to express my gratefulness to our Moral lecturer, Ms Regina Chan as she gave us a lot of kind support and wise advices in funding and making the whole activity worked out. It was a great experience of mine in the university, working together with fellow generous classmates to set up a booth, fund raising for the homeless animals in SPCA. When we were preparing for the fund raising activity, we faced a lot of challenges. It was the biggest challenge to decide which kind of way we should do to fund raise. After many consultations from our lecturer and numerous discussions being made, we finally decided to sell homemade cupcakes and small handmade souvenirs to fund raise for the animals in SPCA. Cupcakes were being provided by one of our thoughtful classmates, while our kind-hearted classmates were making the souvenirs. They took to heart while making the souvenirs and they all turned out to be very nice and cute. While selling the souvenirs, there were not very lots of people knew what we were doing and why were we doing this. After some explanations from our patient classmates, they finally understood our objectives and were willing to help us out, buying our products. We really appreciated their kindness. Finally, we were able to complete our fund raising activity and proceed to the next step, which was purchasing goods to donate to the SPCA. We searched from heaven to earth to look for the best goods to purchase. Finally, we were able to find some shops that were willing to support our project by selling us lower priced rice and animal shampoo. I am grateful to the providers who sympathise the homeless animals in SPCA. Thanks to their contributions, we were able to purchase 10 packets of 10kg rice and 6 bottles of shampoos to the helpless animals in SPCA. After the fund raising and goods purchasing, we finally able to go to the SPCA and started our main activity. I felt regret for unable to join the trip to SPCA due to some family matters. Fortunately, I heard my classmates were having valuable time there with the animals and volunteers. It was enjoyable to commit in the fun raising activity. I hope we can do it again in the near future, helping homeless animals or even children and old folks to make a better future.

Observations and Reflections Eugene Yow (23004118) As a funding committee member, when it was chosen that SPCA Animal Shelter was our destination for our community service, our main goal was to raise funds to provide for the volunteers and animals. Initially some of us did not have sympathy for the less fortunate animals. However, through our moral classes, we begin to assess the situation rationally and re-examine the inadequacy, inconsistency or bias for these animals. This moral development process that nurtured us for 3-4 weeks can be classified as the Personal Virtue Theory. Eventually we had the same Objective Values, where majority of the society agrees that cruelty to animals is wrong and something had to be done about that. When we reached SPCA, the amount of animals there were shocking. Dogs and cats were all around the place. There were workers and volunteers running the place. The place was pretty run down and could use some renovations for a bigger space to hold all the animals. However, the most reflective incident happened when the lady in charge of the SPCA showed us a video of the animals being treated cruelly and what SPCA does to make a difference. I noticed that there are cases where animals were brought in, but put to sleep because the inability of SPCA to adopt so many animals. There was also a statement which said that every month 300+ animals are brought to the SPCA, but only 130 are successful in finding a new home. I assume that the remainder may be put to sleep. I reflected on this action through the deontological theory and utilitarianism. Deontologists believe that consequences do not judge whether actions are moral or immoral. Thus an action is morally unacceptable regardless of the effects. In this case, by putting the animals to sleep, the action or murder is morally wrong to deontologist regardless the intention. However, utilitarianism means actions are right if they are useful for the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people. In this case, by letting the animals rest in peace, it is morally right because it reduces the suffering for the animals. This made me wonder, if theories of two extremes judge the same situation differently, which is the morally right judgment?

Observations and Reflections Wong Jun Kit (23907630)

What I felt when seeing the pitiful state of the animals is a desire to help. This is the moment I felt some truth in the intuitionism theory where it states that humans have an immediate sense of right or wrong. I can feel compassion and also the wrongness of the owners that abandoned their pets. We were adhering to the existentialism principle in which we carry out good deeds based on free will. This, in my opinion is the basis for voluntary work: free will. From another point of view, we were practicing egoism since we did the voluntary work to get marks for the moral studies assignment. I must stress that this is entirely voluntary and we chose to take care of animals. When our donated rice were being cooked and personally served by us to the animals, I was thinking about their happiness when being well fed and felt happy for them. This, I reflect is act utilitarianism. From playing with the animals and seeing the state where so many animals were being abandoned, I reflected that the animals need love and care. Seeing the video shown to us convinced me that the way to save them is by encouraging adoption.

Conclusion After completing the community project, we feel that we have obtained a precious experience, which is not inside the textbook, and we believe that we will volunteer to take part in more community projects in our future as our little contribution to the society and country.

Appendices Appendix 1 : Road map of SPCA Selangor.

Appendix 2: Signboard of the SPCA.

Appendix 3: 10kg x 10 packs rice.

Appendix 4: Shampoo for dogs and cats.

Appendix 5: Posters displayed.

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Appendix 6: Cash Flow of product purchased Particulars Cash Donations (These are the donations collected by the funding group) Shampoo from Jusco Cash (This is the amount used to buy shampoo for the animals) Promotional White Rice from Jusco Cash (This is the amount used to buy rice for the animals) Tools to clean cages Cash (This is the amount used to buy tools to clean up animal cages) 221.4 221.4 Dr. (RM) 531.05 Cr. (RM) 531.05

249.75 249.75

59.9 59.9 1062.1 1062.1

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Appendix 7: Receipts of product purchased

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References Azlin HJ Alwi (2006). Changing Students Valuing of Moral Education. Retrieved April 14th 2013, from http://ro.ecu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1060&context=ceducom

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