Project Sapulot
Providing Lifelong Health Care Education, Safeguarding Futures
Project Sapulot is an Overseas Community Involvement Project (OCIP) that is based in Sabah, East Malaysia. Our project’s mission is to provide accessible and lifelong healthcare awareness and knowledge to both students and villagers in disadvantaged regions all around Sabah.
We believe that the youth will grow to be leaders of the next generation, and are of the view that education is the key to overcoming challenges. Hence our huge focus on student’s health education. Due to our niche in education, our team consists of both healthcare and non-healthcare students.
History and Evolution
Founded in 2017, Project Sapulot was initiated by a small group of NUS Nursing students at the Alice Lee School of Nursing Centre (NUS Nursing). Sapulot is a rural town situated 217km away from the city, with limited access to healthcare knowledge outside of their village. Fun fact, Sapulot means ‘Sticky’ in the Murut language (their ethnic language).
Every year since the project’s conception, our team has provided annual health screenings, educational lessons and home visits to less-privileged students and villagers. In Sapulot, we serve around 400 students, ranging from Primary 1 to Secondary 4 levels. Our target groups are three schools in the Sapulot area, 2 primary and 1 secondary school, namely SK and SMK Sapulot, as well as SK Lotong.
Through our project’s outreach efforts over the years, the students have benefited as evidenced through their improved academic performance and personal development.
In recent years, we have also expanded our outreach efforts to other parts of Sabah, such as Sikuati village in Kudat (2024), Kota Kinabalu (2023) as well as the Melangkap Kampungs in Kota Belud in the upcoming year.
How we do it
The education lessons that are prepared are geared towards providing our beneficiary students with information about a selection of subjects that are important for their assimilation into modern society, as well as motivating them to pursue further studies. Additionally, Project Sapulot also helps students to identify their strengths and weaknesses in order to help them improve. The knowledge gained will allow them to develop as better students and citizens, thus contributing to the development of the community.
Each year, we would conduct an initial survey during the reconnaissance trip in January to find out about the unique challenges each village faces. Subsequently, our Education team and Medical team would curate and refine the lesson content according to the needs assessed so as to ensure our content is modern, relevant and tailored to address their unique health challenges, so as to ensure sustainable adaptation of our lessons.
For the AY23/24, our Education team created a holistic lesson plan with various topics such as English, Women and Men’s Health, Personal Hygiene, Food and Nutrition, as well as Motivation lesson. As these were topics not covered in depth in the students’ syllabus, our lessons helped to equip our beneficiaries with knowledge essential to their assimilation into today’s society and expand their worldviews. The lessons also guided the students in the exploration of their knowledge of themselves to assist their development into better students and individuals.
We also developed a lesson plan on Basic First Aid as it is crucial knowledge for all individuals in society as it prepares one for emergency medical situations. In the villages that we have visited, the nearest clinic for the beneficiaries was an hour away. General hospitals can be even further. Thus, our Medical team took on the task of preparing lessons containing important Basic First Aid skills and simplified the know-how for the children to learn and understand. The lessons included Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), Bandaging, Choking Rescue Procedure as well as learning how to pack a First Aid Kit. The students found the contents new and interesting and were very focused on learning how to help themselves and their community in case of emergencies.
If providing and equipping young minds with lifelong knowledge of health care and self-care resonate with you, learn more about Project Sapulot through our social media channels and connect with us.
Mail: projectsapulot2223@gmail.com
Instagram: @projectsapulot (https://www.instagram.com/projectsapulot/)
Tiktok: @projectsapulot (https://www.tiktok.com/@projectsapulot)
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I was deeply satisfied to see the children actively engaged in the lessons. The time spent with them will always be a cherished memory. I am truly grateful for having had this experience!
– Nur Adila Binte Saifuddin, Project Director AY2024/2025
