The Youth Sarawak Social Challenge 2019 was a competition open to all secondary school students and young adults around Sarawak. There were 2 categories – The ‘Youth Sarawak Social Project Challenge’ - for secondary public and private school students. The other – ‘Youth Sarawak Social Business Challenge’ - for students, young working adults, youth between 18 and 35 years old.
The 2019 challenge required the teams to develop social business ideas to improve the socio-economic livelihoods of communities in Sarawak.
9 schools and 9 teams consisting of youths from a different background from around Sarawak participated in the challenge which began in August this year.
“Social Entrepreneurship is an area that the Sarawak Government, through SMA and its partners, aims to bolster and enhance further. It is in line with the Sarawak Digital Economy Strategy, where digitally-enabled entrepreneurship is focused on uplifting the community and creating positive change in Sarawak. We are inspired that so many youths and students had taken up the call to participate with their ideas on helping the state,” – Hazwan Razak, Head of Digital Village, SMA.
The students and youths attended a 3-day ‘boot camp’ held at the M Hotels, Kuching learnt problem-solving skills, pitching skills, financial management and more. All 9 teams from each category pitched their fine-tuned ideas to a panel of judges on the third day of the boot camp. Out of 9 teams from each category, 5 teams were selected to go to the next phase, the market validation phase.
The 5 teams from each category were given 7 weeks of market validation with a budget of RM 1, 000 for the secondary school category and RM1,500 for the young adults category to kick start their projects.
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