Service to others: How inculcating volunteerism sets kids on a better path

Izzat Nuruddin (right) followed his mother Nurmazilah for a post-flood clean-up work in Shah Alam in Dec 2021. — Photos: NURMAZILAH MAHZAN

IN LATE 2021, when some parts of Peninsular Malaysia were hit by a big flood that displaced more than 71,000 people and affected over 125,000, unaffected Malaysians were quick to band together and organise volunteer works and fundraisers to ease the natural disaster’s impact.

Some went on their own with no link to any group like Azwan Omar, popularly known as Abang Viva (the car he drove) who travelled all the way from Melaka to help flood victims in Shah Alam, Selangor.