Back in 2019, just a couple of months before the emergence of Covid-19, ROS approached us on the possibility of doing an environmental activity with REACH under their ROS-Care programme. Their reconnaissance team met up with our late president Mr Ramakrishnan and a site was eventually readied for them up at our biodiversity center in Gunung Brinchang.
Then in early 2020 the pandemic came and “All hell broke loose”. Our country was not spared and under the various lockdowns , outdoor activities came to a complete halt. As the ferocity of the Covid 19 pandemic diminished so did the movement control order. Countrywide lockdowns were eased and gradually some form of normalcy returned.
We began to do more work at our research center but activities with schools were still non-existent. It was only in late 2021 that our reforestation programme restarted with the assistance of ROS.
On the 26th of October 2021, the ROS team of 35 participants headed by Tuan Haji Mohd Nawardi Bin Saad, The Director General of the Registrar of Societies Malaysia came to our centre and planted trees.
They also did more than that. They advised us to apply for their MyICE grant which provides assistance to community based societies such as ours.
Our current president Mr Dilip Martin facilitated the event. He briefed ROS on our society’s objectives, achievements and unending struggles given the magnitude of the environmental problems here. The following year, which is this year 2022, we did as ROS advised. We applied for the MyICE grant and are pleased to inform that we were successful in obtaining the grant.
We the committee of REACH cannot thank the Registrar of Societies enough for lending us a helping hand just when we needed it most.