Who is Suriana?
We are urban-poor specialists
We enable, empower and transform communities
We educate children and their parents
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We protect abused children and women
Here is how...
Education
Education for children and continuous-education for parents is key to changing mindsets
Food & Supplies Aid
Before a person will listen, you need to ensure his or her most basic needs are first met
Interventive
If it's counselling or saving someone unfairly evicted, we will be there
Immersive Engagement
We have planted ourselves right in the heart of the urban-poor communities
Transformation
The only constant is change, and we hope our work and efforts help these communities for the better
Educate
Access to Quality Education
To ensure the children and their parents in the B40 communities have access to quality education resources by establishing learning centres equipped with modern technology. By way of curriculum development, we develop and implement a curriculum that addresses the unique needs of the communities by focusing on practical skills and knowledge that can directly impact the individual and the community. The centres are operated with trained teachers to better support the students, ensuring a high hold of education.
Elevate
Poverty Alleviation
Through education initiatives, we address the root causes of poverty by equipping individuals the skills and knowledge that can increase their employability and economic stability.
Eradicate
Empowerment through Knowledge
Our initiatives aim to elevate an entire community by creating a ripple effect of positive change. As children and adults succeed, they contribute to the overall betterment of their community.
Vision
Community Transformation Through Education
Goal
Mission
Through education we will empower children and families to elevate their livelihood, building their self-esteem and equipping them to eradicate the poverty mindset.
To empower the community to improve their living conditions, increase their standard of living, eradicate poverty and provide children with hope for the future. We strive for a community free from exploitation and poverty, where children can grow and develop in a secure environment.
In line with
“Our aim is to empower the community to improve their living conditions, increase their standard of living, eradicate poverty and provide children with hope for the future."
Dr. James Nayagam
The Founder Story
Suriana is the brainchild of Founder and Chairman Dr. James Nayagam, whose 40 plus years in the field of saving marginalized, disenfranchised and abused children have allowed him to see how society's ills were solved curatively more than preventively. A lot of charitable efforts out there have had no lasting impact and were mostly a little too late despite millions and millions of Ringgit spent. He saw that few had really gone upstream on a long-term basis to take the preventive route.
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In 2012, Dr. James founded Suriana Welfare Society Malaysia to create inroads that would go deep into the communities most affected by the ravages of poverty in the urban areas. A mandate was forged: to arrest society's problems (drug trafficking, child-abuse, women abuse) by going upstream right into the doorsteps of communities to address the root of the problems.
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Suriana's modus operandi would be preventive, timely and onsite using education as its main arsenal, with children, as the main focus, while engaging the adults within the communities as agents and partners of change.
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Thus, was birthed Suriana's charter - Transforming Communities Through Education
A fundamental concern for others
in our individual and community lives would go a long way
in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.
Nelson Mandela