Asia · South-Eastern Asia
6 projects · 6 organizations
Trains volunteer divers and island communities to survey, restore, and defend Malaysia's coral reefs.
Staff stationed inside Kuala Lumpur's wholesale market pull perfectly edible vegetables and fruit off the discard line, and in 2025 The Lost Food Project turned 2.9 million kg of it into 8.5 million meals.
In Selangor, women's craft groups wash, crush and cast used wine and beer bottles into glass-sand planters, trays and coasters, in a country where glass recycling sits near 10%.
Volunteers who have been sorting Malaysia's recyclables since 1995 marked 30 years with a 2025 plogging drive across the country.
A grassroots NGO run largely by the local Orang Sungai community has replanted over 246,000 trees to stitch Borneo's fragmented rainforest back together for wild orangutans.
When Malaysia dropped its proposed transboundary haze law, an anti-haze coalition filed a human-rights complaint that ended up as a national commission report titled Silent Enemy.