Sekitar Kita, or just SEKITAR. According to Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, the definition for the word alam sekitar is "keadaan alam sekeliling" (the environment around us).

Living in urban areas, the environment might feel like places that is far from us, when in reality, it is much closer. Places like our own backyard, the drain or the taman that our parents used to walk us to in our childhood years is our first point of entry into nature and where we could benefit most from experiential learning. The environment around us tend to be overlook and might seem mundane, but we believe that you can rediscover the novelty of places where you live by really looking at what’s around you #sekitarkita

Sekitar Kita Enterprise is registered under the Companies Commission of Malaysia.

“As a Living Lab initiative, we dream of transforming the campus environment into an ‘open classroom’ where researchers and students can conduct exciting field study and the public can benefit from our environmental education programme.”

Our origin

Sekitar Kita is a university-linked social enterprise as a spin-off from Water Warriors. We began our journey back in 2013 as volunteers and helped to grow Water Warriors as a Living Lab project in Universiti Malayaby providing ideas and solution for campus sustainability, especially on water bodies conservation and water consumption reduction. Some of notable work includes Varsity Lake revival, the revitalization of Sungai Mustafa and UM Green Belt wetland and many others.

What we can offer

Environmental education

Our niche area is water-related education, but we also love to learn, experiment and share more about other topics related to biodiversity, waste management and others.

Citizen science

We design place-based citizen science approaches and organise programs which allows community to contribute in scientific work while understanding environmental problems that matter in each place.

Interpretation & communication

We develop toolkits, guide books, interpretive signage, posters and others to make learning about the environment around us easy, relevant, fun and purposeful.

Research & innovation

We are interested in action-oriented research grounded in particular places and participatory to help build knowledge on what we’ve learned and solve real-world problems.

Our team & associates

Affan Nasaruddin

He is the co-founder of Water Warriors; a living lab programme in Universiti Malaya leading action-oriented and translational research to provide sustainable water management solutions to the campus. He also co-founded Inspirasi Kawa, an environmental youth group in Kuala Selangor focusing on river conservation. His areas of expertise are water conservation, especially on restoration of rivers and lakes, citizen science, environmental education and sustainable innovation. He is also interested in other fields such as urban biodiversity and waste management.

affan1990@hotmail.com

Siti Norasiah Abd. Kadir

Specialises in sustainability communication, with special interest in how symbolic meanings people ascribe to places can be used in communication. She is also interested in the field of interpretation and environmental education. She is the Programme Manager of Sekitar Kita and Project Officer for Water Warriors, Universiti Malaya.

asiahabdkadir@gmail.com

Dr. Zeeda Fatimah Mohamad

Department of Science and Technology Studies, Faculty of Science
Universiti Malaya

An Associate Professor at the Department of Science and Technology Studies, Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya. She works in the interdisciplinary fields of environmental management and science, technology and innovation (STI) studies – with specific interest in understanding the relationship between the development of STI and environmental protection, particularly within the context of sustainable development and associated challenges to late-industrialising countries. She also applies her interdisciplinary perspectives into the emerging field of Sustainability Science.

zeeda21@um.edu.my

Our collaborators & supporting partners