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Discover the transformative impact we've made in rural Sabah through our sustainable initiatives

View a brief of our charitable work impact and project footprint, showcasing our rural project beneficiaries, initiative progress, and key impact data across our various sustainable efforts.

A Summary of Our Community Impact Since 2016

Click on the button below to view a map of our NGO’s footprint, highlighting the locations of our projects, beneficiaries, and a gallery of our completed sustainable community work in rural Sabah.

>40

Total Villages

>50,000

Total Population

>50

Projects Executed

villagers working together to carry pipes during gravity water project execution

Key Impact Highlights

To provide deeper insights, we have gathered detailed data and summarized descriptions to better visualize our impact and the goals achieved through each initiative since 2016.

>200 KM

We have successfully installed 100 km of gravity water systems in 30 villages, providing clean water access and solving water supply issues for over 20,000 rural residents.

>50,000 KG

With villages possessing reliable gravity water access, we have empowered over 900 rural families through sustainable farming initiatives, boosting food security and self-sufficiency. Each family now harvests an average of 15kg of vegetables each crop bedding, promoting long-term economic and nutritional sustainability.

+40%

Farming families are able to increase their supplementary household income by an average of 40% per month by selling their extra produce locally. This has also reduced their monthly fresh food expenses by at least 40%.

>7,500 M

Our team has worked with rural communities in repairing and rebuilding over 5 suspension bridges (over 7,500 meters) to enhance the safety and accessibility for rural villages and schoolchildren. This significantly reduces travel time by up to 60 minutes and eliminates safety risks - ensuring secure and efficient connectivity.

+75%

Hopes Malaysia launched a 20-week English reading program for 20 rural students in 2024. By the end of the tutelage program, all students advanced their English proficiency year-level by 75%, with over 25% of the students improving key skills, including word recognition. 

100 kg

Collecting 100 kg of waste monthly from local urban stores to create sustainable livestock feed, which has reduced our rural farmers' feeding costs by up to 50% compared to usage of commercial feeds. This enables farmers to raise more fish fry with lower expenses, ensuring a sufficient long-term protein source to meet their families’ dietary needs.

GRAVITY WATER SYSTEM IMPACT FOR CLEAN WATER

GRAVITY WATER SYSTEM IMPACT FOR CLEAN WATER

More than 200 km of HDPE pipeline installed

Solved water issues for 50,000 population since 2016

Families in rural Sabah highly rely on natural hill water sources due to limited public water access. In Kadamaian, Kota Belud, 74 poverty-stricken villages face growing populations and worsening water scarcity.

An average family of four needs 3,000 gallons of water monthly for basic needs. During droughts, families must buy mineral water from distant towns, spending up to 50% of their savings. This financial strain deepens poverty, making improved water access crucial to easing economic hardship and enhancing rural livelihoods.

Water project execution
villagers un-rollling the pipes together

GRAVITY WATER SYSTEM IMPACT FOR CLEAN WATER

Installed more than

200 KM

of HDPE Pipeline

Solved water issues for

50,000 population

since 2016

Families in rural Sabah highly rely on natural hill water sources due to limited public water access. In Kadamaian, Kota Belud, 74 poverty-stricken villages face growing populations and worsening water scarcity.

An average family of four needs 3,000 gallons of water monthly for basic needs. During droughts, families must buy mineral water from distant towns, spending up to 50% of their savings. This financial strain deepens poverty, making improved water access crucial to easing economic hardship and enhancing rural livelihoods.

rural farmer and her self grown brinjal

SUSTAINABLE FARMING IMPACT FOR FOOD SECURITY AND SOCIOECONOMIC

Empowered over

900 families

to begin farming

Harvested over

50,000kg of crops

for self-consumption and sale for income

With reliable water access, our charity empowers rural families to start sustainable farming, cultivating high-yield leafy greens, longer-term fruit crops, and tilapia fish. These fresh food sources became vital during the pandemic, as families faced severe food and income crises, heavily relying on unsustainable aid.

To tackle this, we launched community farming workshops to equip families with the materials, skills, and guidance for sustainable farming. By growing food for their needs and selling surplus harvest, families can break the cycle of dependency and build lasting resilience. This initiative fosters self-reliance, sustainability, and transforms rural livelihoods.

villagers working together in unity to fix their community suspension bridge

REBUILDING RURAL INFASTRACTURE (BRIDGES) IMPACT

Rebuilt and Upgraded

75,000 Meters

of total bridge length

Resolved

4,500 villagers

accessibility and safety issues

For years, poor rural infrastructure (suspension bridges) has been a concern for families, especially when their children rely on these bridges every day to get across rivers and dangerous terrain.

Many rural bridges are decades-old and are constructed from aging wooden planks and weak, basic materials. Over time, severe weather deteriorates these simple structures to become safety hazards for their users. This poses great risks to the daily users’ lives, especially for children walking to-and-fro school and farmers traveling to their fields.

Our NGO identifies unsafe rural bridges and restores their safety with the communities, having improved accessibility for 4,500 rural Sabahans. Using recycled tires as a sustainable alternative to wooden planks, we reinforce the structures for greater durability and long-term reliability, ensuring safer access for villagers while promoting lasting sustainability and reducing waste.

rural children with their English books for Hopes Malaysia's English literacy program

RURAL EDUCATION IMPACT

Improved English

Reading Proficiency in

20 Rural Children

75% Improved

proficiency in 20-weeks of tutelage

Hopes Malaysia launched a 20-week English reading program for 20 rural students in 2024, pairing each child with a trained tutor for weekly lessons of at least an hour. Our pre-program diagnostics showed all students were below their proficiency year-level and struggled to communicate in English, a widespread issue for children in Sabah’s rural community.

Upon completion, all students demonstrated reading growth; 75% advancing their English proficiency year-level (such as from Year 1 to Year 3) and 25% improving essential skills, such as word recognition and fluency. We aim to expand this program promptly as many rural students still struggle in learning English.

villager feeding fishes

REPURPOSING ORGANIC WASTE FOR SUSTAINABLE FEED IMPACT

Repurposing

100 KG of waste

monthly from local urban stores

Reducing farming costs by

50% monthly

from sustainable feed

Expired dry food waste is often discarded commercially, contributing to greater wastage and higher local landfill levels. Rising inflation has also limited rural families in accessing consistent protein sources for their daily dietary needs.

Our in-house initiative focuses on collecting over 100 kg of dry food waste from urban Sabah stores and repurposing it to benefit the rural communities. The collected expired food waste is sustainably transformed into supplementary feed pellets for livestock, used by our rural project farmers to nutritiously feed their fish and chickens with reduced farming costs.  

This proves to be a sustainable solution for both rural villagers and the local environment.

EXPLORE OUR IMPACTFUL CAMPAIGN 

Our impactful campaigns addresses pressing community and societal issues while delivering lasting benefits to Sabah's rural communities. These empowerment initiatives focus on addressing urgent basic needs, including access to clean water, sustainable farming for food security, and environmental sustainability — all of which need your support to thrive. Together, we can create lasting change and improve the lives of those who need it most.

Hopes Malaysia's campaigns

GRAVITY WATER SYSTEM IMPACT FOR CLEAN WATER

SUSTAINABLE FARMING IMPACT FOR FOOD SECURITY AND SOCIOECONOMIC

Empowered over 900 families to begin farming

Harvested over 50,000 kg for self consumption and sale for income

With reliable water access, our charity empowers rural families to start sustainable farming, cultivating high-yield leafy greens, longer-term fruit crops, and tilapia fish. These fresh food sources became vital during the pandemic, as families faced severe food and income crises, heavily relying on unsustainable aid.

To tackle this, we launched community farming workshops to equip families with the materials, skills, and guidance for sustainable farming. By growing food for their needs and selling surplus harvest, families can break the cycle of dependency and build lasting resilience. This initiative fosters self-reliance, sustainability, and transforms rural livelihoods.

Rural farmer and her farm

GRAVITY WATER SYSTEM IMPACT FOR CLEAN WATER

REBUILDING RURAL BRIDGE IMPACT

Rebuilt 75,000 meters of total bridge length

Resolved 4,500 villagers accessibility and safety issues

For years, poor rural infrastructure (suspension bridges) has been a concern for families, especially when their children rely on these bridges every day to get across rivers and dangerous terrain.

Many rural bridges are decades-old and are constructed from aging wooden planks and weak, basic materials. Over time, severe weather deteriorates these simple structures to become safety hazards for their users. This poses great risks to the daily users’ lives, especially for children walking to-and-fro school and farmers traveling to their fields.

Our NGO identifies unsafe rural bridges and restores their safety with the communities, having improved accessibility for 4,500 rural Sabahans. Using recycled tires as a sustainable alternative to wooden planks, we reinforce the structures for greater durability and long-term reliability, ensuring safer access for villagers while promoting lasting sustainability and reducing waste.

Rural villagers working together to repair their community's bridge

GRAVITY WATER SYSTEM IMPACT FOR CLEAN WATER

RURAL EDUCATION IMPACT

Improved English reading proficency in 20 rural children

75% improved proficiency in 20 weeks of tuition

Hopes Malaysia launched a 20-week English reading program for 20 rural students in 2024, pairing each child with a trained tutor for weekly lessons of at least an hour. Our pre-program diagnostics showed all students were below their proficiency year-level and struggled to communicate in English, a widespread issue for children in Sabah’s rural community.

Upon completion, all students demonstrated reading growth; 75% advancing their English proficiency year-level (such as from Year 1 to Year 3) and 25% improving essential skills, such as word recognition and fluency. We aim to expand this program promptly as many rural students still struggle in learning English.

June giving guidance to rural students for their English education program

GRAVITY WATER SYSTEM IMPACT FOR CLEAN WATER

REPURPOSING ORGANIC WASTE FOR SUSTAINABLE FEED IMPACT

Repurposing 100kg of organic waste monthly from urban stores

Reducing farming cost by 50% monthly from sustainable feed

Expired dry food waste is often discarded commercially, contributing to greater wastage and higher local landfill levels. Rising inflation has also limited rural families in accessing consistent protein sources for their daily dietary needs.

Our in-house initiative focuses on collecting over 100 kg of dry food waste from urban Sabah stores and repurposing it to benefit the rural communities. The collected expired food waste is sustainably transformed into supplementary feed pellets for livestock, used by our rural project farmers to nutritiously feed their fish and chickens with reduced farming costs.  

This proves to be a sustainable solution for both rural villagers and the local environment.

Harvested reared fish by villager
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