UPM SERDANG, May 16, 2024 - Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), through the Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication (FBMK), organised the "Prihatin Kasih OKU" program as an effort to champion the welfare of people with disabilities (OKU) at the Za'ba Hall on May 14, 2024.

The program director, Nursyafiqah Ahmad Tarmizi, a fourth-semester student of the Bachelor of Arts in Malay Language and Linguistics, stated that this program aims to create an inclusive and disability-friendly learning environment on campus.

"FBMK is a faculty with many disabled students at UPM, totaling 26 people. Therefore, we are running this program at FBMK as a step towards empowering the disabled community and ensuring they are not left behind in the educational mainstream," she said.

Among the activities conducted during this program were sharing sessions about the challenges faced by people with disabilities, performances by disabled students, and visual impairment simulations.

Meanwhile, the program advisor Dr. Mastura Mahamed said FBMK has taken proactive steps by enhancing disability-friendly facilities such as special pathways to lecture rooms and disability-friendly toilets. In addition, facilities like special parking spaces for the disabled and tactile pathways in academic blocks have been installed, and a touch system is being developed to facilitate learning for visually impaired students.

Date of Input: 16/05/2024 | Updated: 16/05/2024 | amira.rahim