The Honda Dreams Fund programme by Honda Malaysia Sdn Bhd is a scholarship that aims to give underprivileged young Malaysians who dare to dream, a chance to fulfill their dreams and achieve a better future through education.
It covers tertiary education fees and provides for allowances to meet living expenses for the duration of their courses in private institutions, and is open to Malaysians aged between 17 – 24 years of age who have at least completed and passed the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) or Sijil Tinggi Pelajaran Malaysia (STPM) examination. The candidate must come from a household with a combined income of less than RM1,500. This full scholarship is non-binding.
The first batch of 20 young Malaysians are already studying now. The 2008 batch will consist of another lucky 20 people, selected from the shortlisted list of 60 candidates. The selection process will be via an all expense-paid workshop. The selection process is done by an ndependent Advisory Panel which comprises members from Human Rights Commission (SUHAKAM), All Womens Action Society (AWAM), Malaysian Youth Council (MYC) as well as UNDP and Honda Malaysia.
To apply, candidates are required to write an essay on their aspirations in realizing their dreams on A4 size paper in not more than 500 words beginning with “Honda Dreams Fund is the opportunity I have been waiting for to realise my dreams. Since I was young, I have always aspired to be…“.
Attach a photocopy of the following documents: NRIC, Certified true copy of Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) and/or Sijil Tinggi Pelajaran Malaysia (STPM), School leaving certificate (if any), Testimonial / referees (from schools/NGOs/Homes), EA Form / J Form or any other form that verifies income (if any) and other qualifications if available.
Send applications to:
Honda Dreams Fund
“Human Resource Development through Education and
Training for Malaysian Youth” Project
P.O Box 12544
50782, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Or email to: [email protected]
The closing date for entries is tomorrow. It’s rather last minute now, but if you read this and know of anyone who might be in need of such a scholarship, please do let them know. It’s not very likely that someone who needs such a scholarship has the luxury of going online often and reading websites such as this one, so it’s very important for those who do have such luxuries to inform those who don’t via word of mouth and etc.
Of course, Honda Malaysia realises this and has brought the news of the programme’s availability to the public, including rurals in East Malaysia. A team from Honda Malaysia including CEO Atsushi Fujimoto visited Miri, Sarawak and Sabah. The team visited Miri and Bario on February 25–28, 2008, sharing the opportunities available through the HDF to 170 youths and representatives from the indigenous groups of Sarawak.
Talks in Sabah were held in Penampang, Tambunan and Sukau, Kinabatangan. More than 130 youths, parents, schoolteachers and representatives of villages from more than 14 districts in Sabah, some from as far as Kudat and Tawau, attended the talk in Penampang.
The talk in Tambunan drew about 70 students while the one in Sukau was attended by about 85 people from 7 villages. Sukau which is located about 150km from Sandakan is an area accessible by water transportation or a dusty ride in a hired van through stretches of paved road, pothole-filled semi-tarred road and gravel. Majority of the population are the Orang Sungai, who live below the poverty line in Sabah of about RM700.
Eduan Bah Chimpok, a pastor who gathered the Orang Asli for the talk in Gopeng said, “This is a golden opportunity for the Orang Asli. Most of them receive no education and for those who did, they cannot afford to further their studies. The way that Honda and UNDP have put together this scholarship and the campaign they undertook to inform these indigenous groups is refreshing. This is the first time a corporation had gone through such lengths to talk about a scholarship to the Orang Asli.”
These are the people we are talking about, who really need such a scholarship. Taking a look at the 2007 recipients list, there is a great mix of gender and race. This is one of the few scholarships in Malaysia which gives out funds based on need and merit rather than “other factors”.
And if you know someone who needs such a scholarship and will most likely miss the application this year, there’s always next year.
Related Links:
Honda Dream Funds Class of 2007
Honda Dream Funds – Application
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Good to see Honda doing something like this, way to go!! Good publicity too…heh heh…
thumbs up to Honda.
Hey Proton (the big brother here), when r u going to do something about giving scholarships? don’t la just think of making profit only….
ectually proton are doing scholarship to my college… TOC…… The Otomotif College…… I’m a student there and nearly a year there…
a good move, better than paying income tax
good effort…who knows in future these students will contibute to further motorcar development in our country…10x honda….
Roti Naan, proton has been giving scholarships for many years already, they also adopted schools that are in areas that need more help than others. maybe you should do some research first before you make comments like that.
http://www.proton.com/community/csr/index.php
http://careers.proton.com/scholarship.php
BanyakMasukWorkshop,
You have been most helping opening up my eyes. But then, is proton really all out helping the rakyat? I mean, if proton makes a couple hundred of million bucks, how much have they forked out for scholarships, as the name of National Car Maker? Are there some statistic that I can refer to?
Wow, I just noticed abt this scholarship is non-binding, that’s great!!
Most scholars are binded with their sponsor, and some are very ridiculous that it made me question the motion of giving scholarship. Being robbed off their time freedom, it is no wonder many, especially overseas scholars would choose to work there and pay back the money. There’s also many other factors like perhaps better salary and all, but I’m just highlighting another rarely known factor for scholars to not return here. I’m sure the scholars wouldn’t have mind coming back to serve the country for 4, 5 years, but 10, 12 years is just utterly ridiculous.
This Honda Dreams Fund scholarship puts the original intention of helping the less fortunate to achieve their dream back in place, without robbing off the most precious asset from an individual: time. Well done Honda, Soichiro-sama would be proud to see the company he founded still holds on to his principles.
How about Toyota? Or Perodua?
@Roti Naan
Come on, Proton has to take care of their own back too. As the saying goes, “you can’t help the others if you can’t help yourself first.” If all also wanna give to scholarship, mati la proton…
If want Proton to give more, then they have to be stronger first, which is what they’re doing right now, by expanding their overseas market. For now, I’d say, it’s noble of them to be able to sideline some of their profit to the community. Though, I hope they don’t put ridiculous conditions to their scholars…
Off topic, Azlan Othman, the Proton Design Manager has finally opened his blog!! yippi~!!
roti naan,
why dont you go do your own research and find out rather than talking off your head? im not defending proton or anything, i just like commenting and presenting a balanced view.. the facts are, proton does have a pretty impressive CSR programme thats been running for many years now which even surprised me.
A company’s CSR programme is not just about scholarships, its about the community as well. For reasons only known to you, you only seem hell bent on posting something negative.
Yea, Proton’s contribution to the recent flood victims really touched me, to see Syed Zainal himself helping a small child to wear the donated shirt (which has a Savvy picture) really makes me salute him.
wow..what a hot topic here..
yeah!! this is great!!! i must apply now… hahaha
How about PhD?
all the best to all candidates…hoooondaaaaa
will help us..vote 4 honda life,,,,,,
i applied for the honda dreams fund last year and there was no reply from the authority..
And there is one malay guy in my college who is under the honda scholarship who barely can speak english and his academic achievement is just moderate level..
i doubt how did he write an essay and with what qualification he was awarded the scholarship…?
evening sir,
i heard about this sponsorship from one of my friend’s instructor. I want to ask u if i can get this sponsorship for my cadet pilot programme .I really need it for my further studies.