Tandemic recognized as Malaysia’s most youth-friendly company
- Hope Awards honor people and groups in Malaysia that promote state-building in addition to the businesses that aid them
Youth-Friendly Company of the Year selected for making long-term commitment to enhancing the lives of others and empowering kids
THE Youth Trust Foundation (myHarapan) has recognized Tandemic for its successes in selling innovation with the aid of children in addition to volunteering at the 2012 Hope Awards, held in conjunction with the Youth Social Business Summit in Kuala Lumpur.
Attendees of the summit covered Nobel Peace Prize Winner Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Jürgen Hammer, chief investment officer of Grameen Credit Agricole, and some of Malaysian children corporations.
"The Youth-Friendly Company of the Year is a business enterprise we selected for making a long-time period dedication to improving the lives of others and empowering young people," stated Nurfarini Daing, CEO of the Youth Trust Foundation. "We selected Tandemic due to the fact we've got seen how pushing children to innovate and acquire extra is a huge part of its fabric.”
The Hope Awards honor people and companies in Malaysia that promote nation-building as well as the organizations that guide them. The nominated initiatives must be championed through youths elderly 15-29 years antique, non-partisan, and non-spiritual.
Tandemic turned into recognized for its paintings on Makeweekend, Do Something Good and the Social Innovation Lab, it stated in a assertion.
- Makeweekend is a country wide programme in which youth brainstorm and construct prototypes to solutions to regular troubles. The programme has reached over 1,000 teens nationwide.
- Do Something Good is Malaysia’s volunteering platform, wherein nearly 3,000 adolescents locate volunteering opportunities and advantage digital factors and badges for taking part.
- Social Innovation Lab is an accelerator for social organizations, presenting software program generation to help start-up and electricity era-based social businesses.
“Many humans assume -- which includes teenagers themselves -- that teenagers can’t obtain as lots as individuals who are older and extra skilled,” said Kal Joffres (pictured on the far right, along with his group), director at Tandemic.
“I think that the Tandemic version proves that wrong. The crew is sort of completely in its 20s and it has done a few awesome effects with a totally excessive degree of professionalism. We’re grateful to myHarapan for the popularity.”
The 2012 Hope Awards were hung on Dec 9. Other tasks diagnosed for their efforts include Teach for Malaysia, which won the Who’s Who award. Green initiatives were also diagnosed, as EcoKnights became presented the Environmental Conservation & Sustainability Award for its KL Eco Film Fest assignment.
Tandemic facilitates construct communities and social moves for manufacturers, non-income and authorities groups, F&N, Firefly Airlines, Microsoft, and Kakiseni.
Picture from Tandemic’s internet site
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