Thursday, June 7, 2012

Progression

Hierarchy based on our topic: Babies Dumping by using the Maslow's Hierarchy(problems) and Example Program(Solutions).



 Tutor are guiding our members on how to focus on the problems
and solve it based on the categories that provided as guidelines. 


The progression!

Babies Dumping in Malaysia

        Mostly,among teenagers always seen to be involved in this situation. Teenage parents give birth in a motel room and leave the child for dead in a dumpster. A girl gives birth in a school bathroom at night. throws the baby into the garbage or in the toilet.These stories relate to one of the most frightening realities of our culture today: some children are viewed as problems to be thrown away rather than gifts to be treasured. More recently, the tragedy of Baby Dumping has begun to be addressed by state legislatures throughout the nation. For example, a number of states have passed laws to provide funding, care, and services for dumped children. These legislative actions have also established 'safe houses' - public centers such as fire stations, police stations, and other public areas where women can bring unwanted children rather then leave them in trash receptacles. The hope is that, by offering an alternative to dumping, women might leave their children with people who can help the baby. Surprisingly, these cases have got a lot of attention from the community. So, what are the best opinions and ways that should be taken to prevent this scenario from spreading?

       The problems usually follow the flow, first is illegal racing, commonly it being held at night, and of course it gives troubles to other road users. Apart from that, it also can be deadly for that person. After having a race, usually they will headed to children activities including their children social life but nowadays parents are different, they trust their children can manage their life wisely. Parents should care about their children activities and friends. Parents must know what their children doing and with whom their children are friend withthe night club. This is the place where they start to take drugs and become addicted to alcohol. When they are under the influence of drugs and alcohol, it will lead them to have an unprotected sex, which means having sex without taking any prevention for pregnancy  The problems usually follow the flow, first is illegal racing, commonly it being held at night, and of course it gives troubles to other road users. Apart from that, it also can be deadly for that person. After having a race, usually they will headed to the night club. This is the place where they start to take drugs and become addicted to alcohol. When they are under the influence of drugs and alcohol, it will lead them to have an unprotected sex, which means having sex without taking any prevention for pregnancy.
       High school students are too immature to fully understand the effects of free sex could have on their lives. So there is no doubt that another problem will be created because of that. For sure the problem is abortion and baby dumping. Panic of being pregnant unexpectedly, they take a risk to abort the baby before their family aware of the physical changes later on. Abortion is a risky action which can be fatal to the mother. But being in desperate situation like this, they cannot think rationally anymore. But not all of them are having enough gut to take the risk for abortion. Some of them decided to give birth to the baby, but then at the end of it, because of some reasons, they dump the baby without hesitate. Dump the baby means that they throw away the babies at any places without taking care of it later. Usually the babies were dump just after they were born. In most of the cases, the babies were already dead when they were found by someone else.
          Sometimes, parents don’t give full attention to their children as today many parents are expect their children are good enough. Parents are also too busy with their jobs until they forget to give attention to their children. This is a serious problem among parents as they don’t know what their children are doing. According to Dr. Khaidzir Ismail, Psychologists of children and adolescents from University of Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2007, “Conflict in the family kicked out of youth to find a place and friends can help overcome life and at the same time meet the needs of finance, entertainment and emotional development”. If someone has poor parental modeling but still goes on to make fantastic life choices, in the same time, they not get attention from family; so very easy to son and daughter involved with social problem like baby dumping.
 
    The first reason is teenagers are lacking of sex education. Parents and schools do not inject sex education onto teenagers' mind since they were small. Parents always think that their children will understand everything about sex when they grow up. This is the natural ability that everybody has and they no need to talk to their children about sex. Most of the parents feel ashamed and uncomfortable everytime their children ask them questions about sex.They refuse to give a positive explanation and a clear view to their children and always claim that they are too small to know about sex. The same thing also happens in schools at where schools do not have sex education as one of their compulsory courses. Most of the schools also never hold any activity about sex education such as talks.They remain quiet and proclaim that these small children will get to know what is sex when they grow up.But, children still gain nothing when they grow up. They do not understand their bodies and some of them may not know what is the differences between boys and girls.Due to the lack of these basic knowledge, surely they do not know how and where a baby comes. So they start to involve with a sexual problem that brought to baby dumping.


OrphanCARE Baby Hatch


HRH Sultanah Pahang Sultanah Kalsom launched Malaysia’s first baby hatch and OrphanCARE’s operations centre on 29th May 2010. Dato’ Seri Shahrizat Jalil, Minister of Women, Family & Community Development and Dato’ Adnan Mohd Tahir, President of OrphanCARE were also present to officiate the launch.
It is heart-wrenching to read about and see pictures of abandoned babies, many of whom are left to die in places such as toilets and rubbish bins. In Malaysia, the incidence of abandoned babies is reported to be about 100 cases per year. However the actual number of babies that are abandoned is not really known and is estimated to be higher than that. Reported cases may be just the tip of the iceberg; with a large proportion of “hidden” cases whereby the babies are given up for adoption and managed in a private and illegal manner by those who offer refuge.
With the establishment of the Baby Hatch at OrphanCARE’s premises, it is hoped that there will be a reduction in the number of babies abandoned in unsafe places. Our aim is to discourage women, especially young unwed mothers who have nowhere to turn to for help, from abandoning their babies by providing the assurance that their babies would be placed with caring parents.

How the Baby Hatch works

An online demonstration of the state-of-art baby hatch can be viewed from the following blog link: Baby Hatch demonstration

Goverment Support

OrphanCARE has the support of the Ministry of Women, Family & Community Development and is in fact working closely with the Ministry. The Ministry is establishing a task force to review and update the Adoption Acts, Registration Act etc and has invited OrphanCARE to be part of the task force. OrphanCARE also intends to work with other Government departments, NGOs, the media and members of the public to help reduce the number of orphans living in orphanages and abandoned babies in Malaysia.

Tackling baby-dumping in Malaysia

Friday, June 1, 2012

Who We Are?
Our group name is "Baby Rangers". 

We are a non-profit organization that aim to raise awareness and  help to overcome the issue of dumping babies.

We are student from Tunku Abdul Rahman College(TARC) and are currently taking Advanced Diploma In Multimedia Design.
Our organization is formed under the subject Entrepreneurship.We have 6 group members, group leader Liaw Zhong Fei, leading 5 of us, Ho Tai Liang, Lim Mun Yi, Liew Xue Yi, Lim Li Juan, and Leow Jee Hong.