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Malaysia
Malaysia occupies the Southeastern Asia Peninsula south of Thailand. Skip across the South China Sea and you will find East Malaysia on the northern one-third of the island of Borneo. Lying between the two Malaysias is the Strait of Malacca, an important trade route for centuries. This strategic location has ensured Malaysia a diverse and colorful culture.
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Millennium Returns to Malaysia
December 2012
In October 2012, Daniel Huegel became the Millennium Relief & Development Program Director in Malaysia. Daniel first joined Millennium in 2007, when he was awarded the Millennium Latino Scholar’s Grant, to study for his PhD in Anthropology at the National University of Malaysia. During 2008 and 2009, he worked as a volunteer for Millennium helping to establish and operate the successful Liga Bolasepak Junior Bangi (or LBJB) community soccer program. In 2010, while working part time with LBJB, Daniel was also exploring options for future Millennium projects.
During the past year, Daniel has been in Mexico and Texas developing and preparing for his new role in Asia. He and his family are scheduled to move back to Malaysia in early 2013, when Daniel will set up the new Millennium office. Daniel and his wife Sandra have been married for 17 years. Sandra has served as a clerical assistant for Millennium since 2008. They have four children.
Kicking off the New Year.
In one of our first new projec ts, Millennium will be partnering with NISD (Nusantara International Sports Development). Together, we want to develop sports clubs for children and youth in underprivileged communities.
With many of the world's most famous players coming out of Latin countries, our program will focus on the Latin American style of play. The clubs will be training and coaching soccer in the style of "futbol a la medida del niño" (soccer taught at the size of the boy), which adapts all aspects of training to the maturity level and size of the enthusiastic young players. This very effective system is used by Ajax of Holland, Barcelona and Real Madrid of Spain, and is also quite popular in Brazil.
We will have more information on this exciting project as it develops.
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Last Updated on Monday, 31 December 2012 19:30 |
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L-Mix ’09 ~~ Latino Youth Discover the Cultural Mysteries of Malaysia
February 2010
This cultural exchange program is directed by Millennium's Country Director who is Student at UKM, Director of Programs in SE Asia for FCI-Facilitating Cultural Interchange. 
Malaysia. The name brings to mind an exotic land with beautiful beaches, lush tropical forests and warm, welcoming people. This past summer, from July 12th to August 6th, a group of Latino young people went to Malaysia to participate in the Latin-Malay Intercultural Exchange 2009 (known simply as L-Mix ’09). This exchange is organized each year by the Institute of Occidental Studies (IKON) a research institute that is part of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM).
With participants from five countries, including Mexico, Costa Rica, Bolivia and the United States, this special month long course gave students the opportunity to get to know the life and culture of Malaysia. They saw things not as tourists observing from the outside, but as participants in the culture. Eyes were opened to the cultural “mysteries” that are a part of daily life for the locals, but which were unknown to the Latinos.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 29 March 2012 20:49 |
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Millennium Malaysia Helps Organize
2nd Year of Little League Soccer
June 20, 2009
The Liga Bola Sepak Junior of Bangi (LBJB), a little league soccer club for boys from 6 to 12 years of age, finished their official 2009 season with a special one day tournament. The event, held at the stadium of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, was a great success as some 80 local families turned out to cheer on their teams. It was a grand finale to a very successful year.
The LBJB community league was first started in 2008, when Millennium Relief & Development Services (MRDS) staff based in Malaysia discovered a similar league on the east side of town called the Subang Jaya Community Youth Football League. Daniel, a Millennium Latin Scholars Grant recipient, and his wife Sandra, a Millennium employee, joined with the local parent and teacher association to organize the league. That first year, the community signed up about 60 boys. They formed four teams divided by age group. The league was such a success, that they had to move out of the public school field to a larger community field. In 2009 all the season matches were held on fields at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. We are grateful to the university authorities who are such a great help to the league.
For 2009, LBJB had about 110 boys registered in three divisions. Each division with four teams. There was the Junior division for boys 6 and 7 years old; the Major division for boys 8 and 9 years; and the Senior division for boys ages 10 and 11. As school began in January 2009, according to the Malaysian school calendar, our soccer season began as well. After registration each boy was evaluated on his soccer skill. The teams were made up by the league staff with an eye to balancing the teams so each would have an equal share of experienced and inexperienced players. A very important league rule is that each boy who registers MUST play at least half of every scheduled match.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 18 February 2010 04:39 |
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