The Asli Program
13 Days. One Objective. Countless Experiences.
The Asli Program
A 13-day outreach program consisting of using raised funds to build homes for the Orang Asli peoples in respected villages around the urban and rural areas of Malaysia.
Other activities include visiting the partner work site for an exclusive look at hand-crafted products and an educational eco-tour to understand the Orang Asli way of life.
Who are the Orang Asli?
The Orang Asli are the Indigenous Peoples of Peninsular Malaysia and they numbered 206,277 in 2020. There are various subgroups of Orang Asli, each having their connection to different homelands that have helped to shape their individual, unique identities and ways of life.
However, The Orang Asli are often marginalized, discriminated against, and neglected in socio-economic considerations, especially when developing the quality of life within Malaysia. This endangers them to be regularly impoverished and manipulated to suit the agenda of others. It results in poverty, questionable living conditions, and lack of social support access.
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Meet Our Partners
The Asli Co. trains and works with Orang Asli mothers to produce quality handmade products. Starter kits and materials are provided so that mothers can easily begin working from home.
Native Discovery co-creates community-based tourism ventures with indigenous communities in Peninsular Malaysia to boost livelihoods while enabling respectful cultural discovery.
Epic Homes aims to build relationships between the urban and rural divide through the act of building homes for underprivileged communities, currently focusing on the indigenous people of Peninsular Malaysia, the Orang Asli.
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