Malaysia

Harvest Centre
Since 2003, the Nu Skin Force for Good Foundation has dedicated part of its force for good efforts to Harvest Centre, an organization that provides care and education to disadvantaged youth in poor urban communities in Malaysia. In 2007, the Foundation provided funding to facilitate Harvest Centre's initiatives for computer-aided learning to children and women. Nu Skin Malaysia employees also spread festive cheer for the children by donating more than 100 baskets of food.

World Vision Malaysia-New Covenant Community Center
In 2004, Nu Skin's Force for Good Foundation provided funds to build a classroom and to purchase educational books, supplies and science laboratory equipment for a Children's Learning Center in Malaysia. The donation was given through the New Covenant Community which focuses on ministering to the urban poor in Sentul by providing non-formal education to needy children and on helping babies develop mentally.

Previous projects include:

• Donation made in April 2003 to help provide a mini library, including books and other educational supplies, baby cribs, bottles, diapers, first aid kits, cognitive development materials and a new children's learning center. Until the donation, 45-70 children learned English and mathematics each day. The new Children's Learning Center will double the number of children that can be accommodated.

Integrated watershed management and community micro-hydro system (Terian, Sabah, 2004)
The Crocker Range National Park, also called "The Spine of Sabah," covers 540 square miles of remote forest in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo and is one of the most important sanctuaries of biodiversity left in the heavily logged state. Terian Village has agreed to protect a 1,000-acre watershed area in exchange for a micro-hydro energy system, which creates power by harnessing the vertical drop of a stream within the watershed. Seacology is working with PACOS Trust , the Borneo Project, Green Empowerment and Tinimungan Popoburu Tulun (TINIPOT or the Community Development Action Group of Terian) to complete this system.

Micro-hydro energy system (July 2001)
The village of Long Lawen is located in Sarawak, Malaysia on the island of Borneo. Borneo, the third largest island in the world, is home to the oldest, most biologically diverse tropical rainforests on earth. Like many remote island villages, Long Lawen is primarily dependent on diesel generators to provide electricity. Diesel fuel is very expensive, noisy, pollutes the air and is extremely inconvenient to obtain. Seacology has provided funding to The Borneo Project to enable Long Lawen to utilize micro-hydro technology. This technology harnesses the power of small streams that have significant vertical drop to generate electricity. Because the equipment is small scale, electricity is produced with benign environmental impacts. The micro-hydro project at Long Lawen is providing 12 kilowatts of electricity 24 hours a day for lighting a school, a local clinic and the refrigeration of medicines. It will save the community thousands of dollars annually in diesel fuel costs and will serve as a model for many other island villages.