What is Best Buddies International ?

Mission statement

To establish a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Vision statement

To put Best Buddies out of business.


Thursday, September 4, 2008

Who we are?

What is Best Buddies?
Best Buddies International is an Non profit Organization which it aims to enhance an one to one friendship with learning difficulties people and provide integrated employment. It has 6 programs proposed, which are Best Buddies Middle Schools, BB High Schools, BB Colleges, BB Citizens, BB Jobs, and e-Buddies.

Best Buddies, its headquarter is in Miami, Florida, founded by Anthory K.Shriver in 1989. Best Buddies is not only developed in US, however it spreads their services to other country as well successfully. The countries involve such as Singapore, Australia, Egypt, Hong Kong, Philippines, Spain, Ireland and etc.

For Further explanation, you may click on www.bestbuddies.org

Best Buddies Malaysia
UCSI is the first chapter of Best Buddies in Malaysia. Best Buddies is formally formed on May 2008. We introduces the program of Best Buddies Colleges.

Best Buddies Colleges - Forming a one to one friendship between college students and learning difficulties people in at least one academic year.

We, as college students called as college buddy, however learning difficulties people called as buddy.

Currently, we have 11 members to join our program. In order to join our program, you have to sign up membership application and matching survey. Later on, an interview is conducted to ensure the quality of our members.

Why Best Buddies is important?
Learning difficulties people are always social excluded and being discriminated by the society. They have no friends except friends who also learning disabled like them. Best Buddies, give us, youngsters have a chance to become friend with them. We give them a new experience and new opportunity to have friend likes us. We are not only be their model, their mentor, their friend, thus they also can become our close friend, our inspirator, our motivator as well. We are making a difference in their life, and they do the same as well.

Commitment in Best Buddies
a) Contact your buddy in a weekly basic such as sms, email, call and etc
b) One to one outings twice a month
c) Maintain the friendship at least 1 academic year
d) Actively involve in Best Buddies activities

So, what are you waiting for? Don't be hesistate to contact us and know more about Best Buddies. Our email address: bestbuddies.ucsi@gmail.com or you may call 012-2993593 (Hui Ru)

1 comments:

Unknown said...

Hey this is my mail yb175554@gmail.com i would like to join could assist me further.