Salt Exhibition at Church of Divine Mercy

The purpose of the exhibition is to share our experiences in joining SALT III in hope that we can create awareness on the realities faced by the Indigenous Peoples particularly the Kayan and Kenyah community in Sarawak, thus creating a platform for people to help the marginalized and getting involve in Human Rights works.

We also hope that through this exhibition, we are able to generate some funds for the Mini Library Project at Long Lawen, Ulu Bakun, Sarawak that we are working on.

The Mini Library Project is initiated and jointly-organized by the participants from SALT III of various coordinating councils, namely Penang Coordinating Council (PCC), Melaka-Johor Coordinating Council (MJCC), Kuala Lumpur Coordinating Council (KLCC) and Kuching Campus Ministry (KCM). It is inspired during SALT III and is recognized by the Malaysian Catholic Students’ Council (MCSC). We, also the members of CSS+SA are the participants of SALT III are representing KLCC.

SALT is an acronym for School of Acting Justly, Loving Tenderly and Treading Humbly with God, organized by Campus Ministry, Roman Catholic, Diocese of Melaka-Johor. It is a school with a space and time for effective bonding amongst the participants, fostering a sense of teamship, partnership and communion among themselves.


The programme is aimed at:
1. Cultivating a growing sense of solidarity with the marginalized in our society.
2. Equipping each participant with the spiral pedagogy of experience and reflection in the light of faith.
3. Enabling participants to understand God’s perennial calling humankind to promote human rights, justice, gender sensitivity in relation to refugees, Indigenous People, women and environment.
4. Empowering them to become committed agents of social transformation.

SALT is held once a year in hope to reach out to the marginalized and the oppressed. SALT I was held at Malacca with an objective to extend their compassions as well as discovering the realities faced by the marginalized immigrants in Malaysia. While, SALT II was held at Ulu Belaga, Sarawak aimed to take participants to explore and discover the social economic impact Bakun Dam construction inflicts on the indigenous community it displaced. Taking the programme to the next level, SALT III was once again held in response to the realities faced by the indigenous people in Bakun. Only this time we discovered the issue was more serious as we got to experience living with the indigenous community at Long Lawen. The people of Long Lawen chose not to be moved to Sg. Asap-Koyan resettlement area. We saw the spirit in them fighting to keep what is left from their real identity, which is the forest.

Calling all interested university student in Kuala Lumpur area to join SALT 4, place are limited.

Next SALT will be held in Sabah on Kaiduan Dam. Please contact Amanda for more info.

Coffee Morning at Church of Divine Mercy

Pada 31 Januari 2010 (Ahad), CSS UiTM Shah Alam telah membuat satu “Coffee Morning” yang bertempat di kafeteria CDM (Church of Devine Mercy Shah Alam). Tujuan utama “coffee morning” ini dibuat adalah untuk menjana dana tabung CSS UiTM. Di samping itu, aktiviti ini juga secara langsung dapat mengeratkan lagi hubungan dan komunikasi di antara exco CSS dan ahli CSS. Kami juga ada mempamerkan gambar aktiviti-aktiviti CSS UiTM yang juga bertujuan untuk memperkenalkan warga CDM dan lebih jelas mengenai CSS UiTM yang sebenarnya telah ditubuhkan sejak 1980-an lagi.

Antara menu utama yang menjadi pilihan sewaktu “coffee morning” tersebut adalah nasi lemak, karipap, “sandwich”, nasi ayam, loklok, kordial oren, teh, dan juga kopi panas. “Coffee morning” ini juga mendapat sambutan daripada warga CDM sendiri dan hampir semua jualan pada masa itu habis dijual. Kami menyarankan 1000 orang yang menghadiri tiga misa waktu pagi datang membeli makanan dan minuman.

Para exco memulakan penyediaan makanan dan minuman ini seawal jam 9pm(Sabtu) dan berakhir pada jam 6.00am(Ahad). Kami juga mendapat pertolongan daripada ahli CSS sendiri. Walaupun berasa penat tetapi kepenatan kami itu dibalas dengan Berjaya menyediakan semua makanan pada masa yang ditetapkan.

Di kesempatan ini juga kami mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih dan memberikan penghargaan kepada penasihat CSS UiTM iaitu Ms. Monica Ch’ng, dan sesiapa sahaja yang terlibat secara langsung ataupun tidak langsung untuk sama-sama menjayakan aktiviti ini. Aktiviti ini juga serba sedikit menyumbangkan keserasian CSS UiTM dan CDM dalam merancang aktiviti untuk kebaikan komuniti dan gereja.

Sekian, terima kasih.

Disediakan oleh,

Decimus Balangkit

(Program Director of Coffee Morning 2010)

That drawing stand it cost RM 175.00 at Kedai Maria, but we manage to 'tukang' less than RM 15.00.

Voila! A new CSS asset!! Kira macam notice board bergerak lah.

Jackson & Recca learn a new technique of slicing egg. Pakai benang saja, telur pun licin.

Edna, the head of Chicken Rice Department and her konco-konco.

Loklok department.

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Sandwich department. Thank to the tenants of Melina Home for the place and the hand.

Chicken Rice Department a success!

Faces of 2 in the A.M

Seminar Dasar Kitab Suci

Shalom my brothers and sisters in Christ,

Pada 16 dan 17 Ogos lalu, Komuniti Umat Bahasa Melayu, Church of Divine Mecy telah menganjurkan Seminar Dasar Kitab Suci. CSS UiTM SA telah menghantar sebanyak kira-kira 30 orang untuk menyertai seminar tersebut. Seminar ini berlangsung selama 2 hari 1 malam, tempat tidur juga disediakan. Dalam seminar tersebut, oh, ada juga si Father Valentine, untuk kasih siok keadaan.

Kongres Ekaristi at CDM

It is agreed that there will be no mass on every first Saturday of the month because we will be joining Church of Divine Mercy (CDM) for BM mass which starts at 9.45am. So, on 3rd of August, Sunday, after attend the BM mass, we joined them for “Kongres Ekaristi” which start at 12pm until 5pm. The event begin with welcome speech by Father Paulinho, and then praise and worship led by Ronnie. There are 6 session which lectured by Sisters, and the topics are, Misteri Iman, Ekaristi membangunkan gereja, sifat apostolic ekaristi dan gereja, ekaristi dan persekutuan gereja, perayaan ekaristi and Bonda Maria Ekaristi. The event was like a workshop, where after every session we were divided into groups and discuss or share about the question/statement given. The Congress ends at six in the evening.

Father Paulinho



Praise and Worhip




Sharing and discussion




Hmm.. now I know what is all this.



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