Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education
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Journal

Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education


Volume
& Issue

Volume 12, Issue 2


Published
on

April 5, 2021


Pages

581-587


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Article

The Awareness and Implementation of Foodbank Program in Malaysian University


Authors

Khairunesa Isa* Affiliation:
Social Impact Focus Group, Centre for General Studies and Co-Curricular, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor
, Johanisma Jamin Affiliation:
Faculty of Technical and Vocational Education, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor
, Khairul Azman Suhaimy Affiliation:
Social Impact Focus Group, Centre for General Studies and Co-Curricular, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor
, Lutfan Jaes Affiliation:
Social Impact Focus Group, Centre for General Studies and Co-Curricular, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor
, Zahrul Akmal Damin Affiliation:
Social Impact Focus Group, Centre for General Studies and Co-Curricular, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor
, Muhaymin Hakim Abdullah Affiliation:
Social Impact Focus Group, Centre for General Studies and Co-Curricular, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor
, Nor Shela Saleh Affiliation:
Social Impact Focus Group, Centre for General Studies and Co-Curricular, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor
and Sarala Thulasi Palpanadan Affiliation:
Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia


Abstract

The Foodbank Malaysia Foundation (YFBM) is a foundation that has been established to introduce as one of the initiative to help the underprivileged to access food which indirectly reduces the issue of food waste among Malaysians. Foodbank Malaysia Program has been introduced as a program to help any one to make sure they can eat per day without any problem and this includes university students in Malaysia. Indeed, it is very important to distribute the food from the foodbank program to those university students who are in need to make sure all the underprivileged students get help from the university authorities. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to measure the level of awareness and to analyze the implementation of foodbank program among students. A total of 350 students were selected using simple random sampling method. The data were analyzed descriptively via Statistical Package for the Social Science Version 25.0 (SPSS version 25.0). Using descriptive statistics, the finding indicated that the university students had a high level of awareness about the foodbank program with a mean score value 3.61 and the result for the implementation of foodbank program among university students showed a high level with a mean score 3.99. Based on the Linear Regression Analysis results, the overall findings indicated that students’ foodbank awareness were closely related to the implementation of foodbank program in university with β=0.732.


Keywords

Foodbank, Students Awareness, University Students, Higher Education


Citation

Isa, K., Jamin, J., Suhaimy, K. A., Jaes, L., Damin, Z. A., Abdullah, M. H., Saleh, N. S., & Palpanadan, S. T. (2021). The awareness and implementation of foodbank program in malaysian university. Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education, 12(2), 581–587.

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