Makrab Malam Keakraban

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(Makrab) Malam Keakraban

• PPIA RMIT
• Prepared by Astrid Paramita, Ketua PPIA RMIT

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BACKGROUND

• Has been run 3 times in RMIT (2006-2008)
• Leadership camp
• 3 days 2 nights activities

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OBJECTIVES

• Recruit new members
• Tighten the friendship and bonding between
  members (existing or new members)
• Organizational and leadership activities
• Retreat from everyday routines

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PREPARATION

• Done by PPIA general committees.
• 3 major things to organized
• Facilities
• Publication
• Activities
• Facility accommodation, meals, and
  transportation.
• Activities schedule/rundown, games, session, and
  equipments needed.
• Publication promotion and registration.

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FACILITIES

• Accommodation
• Research with keywords camp, youth camp.
• Things to be considered price, capacity, meals,
  facility, and location.
• These things above will affect the cost/person,
  number of participants, equipments and
  activities.
• Meals
• Provided by camps/catering order/prepare your
  own.
• Important things food safety hazard.
• Transportation
• Research.
• Set your target number of participants before
  booking.

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PUBLICATION

• Printer materials
• Brochure/posters/flyers.
• Registration stands/booths on open day.
• Electronic
• Friendster/Facebook.
• Mailing list.
• Mouth-to-mouth

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ACTIVITIES

• Set your concept, what is going to be emphasized
  in general (e.g. teamwork/commitments/responsibili
  ty, etc).
• Each activities will be summarized at the end, to
  get the moral of the story.
• Games
• Anything basically.
• Indoor and outdoor.
• Night trail.
• Session
• Sharing session.
• Talk by PPIA committees.
• Fire camps if possible.

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FUTURE IMPROVEMENT

• Until this stage, the right and suitable time to
  run Makrab is not yet determined.
• It is found that running Makrab on semester one
  is not efficient as most new students coming to
  Australia are not comfortable enough to go to
  camps yet.
• It could be better if Makrab is run on the
  semester two where new students already adapt and
  get used to living in Australia and University
  life.
• Mouth-to-mouth or friends of friends is the most
  effective way of publication and recruiting new
  members.

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IMPACT ON PPIA RMIT

• New members recruited.
• Mindsets adjustment.
• Members are ready to involve in organizations.
• Members are ready to run small and big projects,
  e.g. Kafe Art.

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GENERAL APPLICATION

• To apply Makrab on your own branch, please note
  that
• Who are your target participants?
• (foundation studies/undergrad/postgraduate)
• What do you target participants want?
• (personal developments/fun/career advice)
• Where does the fund comes from? Is there any
  subsidy or grants from unions?