Our journey · 2015 – 2025
LIFE Malaysia began in 2015 with a few friends handing out food to people sleeping rough in Kuala Lumpur. Ten years on, we are a registered society running school programmes, flood and pandemic relief, youth sport and community projects across the Klang Valley. This is how we got here.
Then and now
Ten years separate these two photos. The idea behind them has not changed: show up for people who need it, and bring others along.
2015
Packed meals handed to people sleeping rough in Kuala Lumpur. No name, no registration, just a group of friends who kept coming back.
10 years
2025
Kasih 100 Deepam 300 set out to support 300 underprivileged families for Deepavali, delivered with corporate and community partners beside us.
10+
years of community service
30
programmes in our recorded history
6
charity futsal tournaments since 2017
300
families in one Deepavali drive (2025)
Ten years, five chapters
Every entry below comes from our own programme records. Scroll down and watch the decade unfold, or jump to a chapter.
1 Humble beginnings2 Becoming official3 Growing reach and recognition4 Standing with families through the pandemic5 Building lasting change
Chapter 1 · 2015 – 2016
It started with food. In mid-2015 a few friends packed meals and walked the streets of Kuala Lumpur after dark, handing them to people sleeping rough. They came back that November, and when floods hit Chennai in December they turned the same goodwill into a relief drive. By 2016 the group was taking Tamil school pupils on their first trip to the city and stepping in when families hit a crisis.
2015
Street feeding and a first relief drive
Mid-2015
Our first street-feeding run for people experiencing homelessness in Kuala Lumpur.
2 November 2015
Back on the streets of Kuala Lumpur for a second night of street feeding.
4–18 December 2015
Collected funds and goods for the Chennai Flood Relief Team (CRFT).
2016
Opening doors for schoolchildren and families
26 June 2016
Organised and sponsored a study tour to Kuala Lumpur and Selangor for SJKT Ladang Escot, Tanjung Malim: the National Museum, National Monument, Planetarium, KLCC Park, Petrosains and Batu Caves.
13 September 2016
Raised financial aid towards treatment for a man left paralysed.
3 October 2016
Provided financial aid and a new home for a family of five from Setiawan, Perak.
Chapter 2 · 2017 – 2018
In April 2017 the group registered with the Registrar of Societies as Persatuan Kebajikan Insan Penyayang Kuala Lumpur dan Selangor, keeping the name everyone already knew: LIFE Malaysia. The same year brought the idea that became our signature fundraiser, a charity futsal tournament, and with it a way to rally whole communities behind a school.
2017
Registered, and the first Charity Futsal
4 April 2017
Sponsored two futsal teams of 16 students from HELP Community Learning Centre for the Faisal Cup, with full jerseys, football boots and seven coaching sessions from a FAM-certified committee member.
12 April 2017
Officially registered with the Registrar of Societies (ROS) as Persatuan Kebajikan Insan Penyayang Kuala Lumpur dan Selangor. The name LIFE Malaysia stays.
24 September 2017
Our 1st Charity Futsal Tournament at Sports Planet Subang, raising funds to upgrade SJK(T) Pulau Carey Selatan.
2018
Working alongside other NGOs
24 August 2018
Visited Rumah Pengajian Xavier in Petaling Jaya and sponsored a brand-new printer.
25 August 2018
Joined eight other NGOs supporting the Kerala Flood Relief Team (KRFT).
20 October 2018
Our 2nd Charity Futsal Tournament at tSamba Futsal Court, Petaling Jaya.
2 December 2018
Our first Charity Car Wash, raising support for 100 underprivileged school students.
Chapter 3 · 2019
2019 was the year the work scaled up and people noticed. One programme now meant 100 students ready for school. Our chairman was honoured for social activism, the futsal tournament opened to women’s teams for the first time, and we planted trees with new partners.
2019
100 students, a women’s tournament and an award
5 January 2019
Back2School at SK Seri Suria for 100 underprivileged students: school bags, a set of uniforms, shoes, socks and stationery.
7 June 2019
LIFE Malaysia Chairman Mr Diccam Lourdes was named Social Activist of the Year at the Asia Pacific Business Award, an initiative of the Global Entrepreneur Council.
6 October 2019
Our 3rd Charity Futsal Tournament at Sports Planet Subang, with a women’s futsal tournament held on the same day for the first time.
22 November 2019
Joined Dato’ Suriya Prakash at the launch of the VYNO Tree Planting Project.
Chapter 4 · 2020 – 2021
When COVID-19 closed the country, the needs at our doorstep changed overnight. We moved from events to emergency response: fresh food for PPR flats, groceries and bills for families who had lost their income, and, when flash floods hit Taman Sri Muda in December 2021, volunteers on the ground helping with rescue and relief.
2020
Fresh food in lockdown
7 February 2020
Raised funds on two occasions for a child who needed open-heart surgery at the National Heart Institute (IJN). Both surgeries were reported successful.
1 April 2020
Worked with the Seputeh parliamentary office to support the Taman Desa community during the lockdown. Our “Charity Vege Sale” funded free vegetables for the PPR community.
21 April 2020
Distributed 600 boxes of fresh vegetables from Cameron Highlands with the Seputeh Parliament Service Centre and Tamil Expats Mandram.
20 December 2020
Covered rent, electricity and water bills and groceries for a woman severely affected by the pandemic.
2021
From 30 families to 187 in two weeks
3 April 2021
Donated 10 boxes of A4 paper to SJKT Vivekananda, Petaling Jaya.
29 June 2021
Provided groceries to 30 families as hardship grew among B40 households.
3 July 2021
Groceries for 47 families across PPR Muhibbah Blocks J and B, Sri Petaling Endah Flats, PPR Bandar Tun Razak, Bandar Kinrara, Pangsapuri Ria, PPR Pantai, Setapak and Baiduri.
10 July 2021
Mobilised 20 volunteers to deliver groceries to 187 families, from Dengkil to Kuala Selangor.
17 December 2021
Our members joined rescue and relief work in Taman Sri Muda during severe flash flooding.
Chapter 5 · 2022 – today
Out of the emergency years came a clearer focus: help families stand on their own feet, and keep children learning. Entrepreneurship training for B40 households, sponsorship for university students, the Tree House Project and the largest festive drive in our history.
2022
The tournament returns
25 October 2022
Our 4th Charity Futsal Tournament at ROF Subang Elite.
2023
Skills for B40 families
30 September 2023
With MPP Subzone 6 Seputeh, helped MITRA organise and run a Kursus Usahawan (entrepreneurship course) for the B40 community.
3 December 2023
Our 5th Charity Futsal Tournament.
2025
Students, the Tree House Project and 300 families
16 June 2025
Sponsored a group of students taking part in “Vizhiyin Velicham”, a programme by the UNISEL Indian Cultural Society.
21 September 2025
Our 6th Charity Futsal Tournament at Republic of Futsal, Petaling Jaya, and the inauguration of the Tree House Project on the same day.
15 October 2025
“Kasih 100 Deepam 300”, our Deepavali initiative to support 300 underprivileged families.
2026
Coming up: LiFE Anbu Deepam
Deepavali 2026
LiFE Anbu Deepam 2026: RM100 grocery boxes for 100 underprivileged families, with a goal of RM10,000. Sponsor a family.
How our reach grew
A few of the numbers from our records. Each step is a single programme, and each one was bigger than the last.
16
students sponsored to play in the Faisal Cup
2017
100
students kitted out for school at SK Seri Suria
2019
600
boxes of fresh vegetables during lockdown
2020
187
families reached by 20 volunteers in one day
2021
300
families supported for Deepavali
2025
Five threads through ten years
The programmes changed with the times. These five commitments ran through all of them.
Street feeding, financial assistance, housing support, groceries and essential household aid.
Study tours, school supplies, Back2School, student sponsorship and futsal development.
The charity car wash and our charity futsal tournaments, with women’s futsal added in 2019.
Chennai and Kerala flood relief, COVID-19 food assistance and flood rescue in Taman Sri Muda.
Entrepreneurship training, tree planting and the Tree House Project.
Every chapter so far was written by people who simply showed up. Volunteer, sponsor a student or give to a cause, and help us write the next ten years.
