00:00Hi, I'm Johnson Lam from Kaki Repair.
00:02I'm the winner of the Star Golden Hearts Award 2025.
00:06Although this award, I'm the recipient.
00:08However, this award goes to everyone out there
00:11who does repair and fix it.
00:13Three things that we don't know how to repair,
00:31but each other we know how to repair and help out each other, okay?
00:34I'm a corporate leader by profession and a community leader by passion.
00:40So I grew up from a village
00:42and that time, it's not easy for us to just buy whatever we want, right?
00:46So first of it is affordability, second is availability.
00:50So even since young, usually I just gather resources around us
00:55and start to build stuff.
00:56I pick up like items, broken items from the neighborhood,
01:00repair it to become a usable stuff, right?
01:03So from there, I started to realize that
01:05actually in Malaysia, there's a lot of resources around us.
01:08We can actually gather and repair and fix stuff
01:11and then, you know, to prolong life span of stuff or to get items.
01:15But I also realized that today's education and society,
01:20we are very consumer society.
01:23We use, spoil already, we just throw away.
01:26So then, not a lot of people had this motivation or even the know-how to repair stuff.
01:33That actually motivated me to start Kaki Repair.
01:35I started Kaki Repair back in Juli 2017, okay.
01:43So during that time, my mission was very simple.
01:46I just want to encourage people to not throw broken things away,
01:51but at least try to come out and learn how to repair it first.
01:55So my mission and vision is for people to come out, collaborate,
01:59and then learn from each other how to repair stuff.
02:03So far, all this never changed since the inception.
02:06However, there's one focus that we actually sort of like move the direction towards.
02:12I realized that it is not just about fixing things.
02:15It is also about fixing mindset.
02:18After I talked to many, many people on the question of why you don't repair things,
02:24people always come out with these three, I would say, reasons slash excuses.
02:29People will say there's no tools, there's no space to repair,
02:32and there's no expertise, I don't know how to repair.
02:35So a session of Kaki Repair has all these three,
02:38so there's no more excuses for people to not to repair.
02:41It was always self-funded since the inception back in 2017,
02:46but today, there's a lot of other brands, corporate and even community partners
02:51that realize that this is very important, so they help out.
02:54Okay, so sometimes they come, they sponsor some tools,
02:57they sponsor some parts, okay, and they fund the whole movement itself.
03:01And the rest of it, I self-funded using Kaki DIY's platform,
03:05because I host repair videos, okay, product videos on YouTube,
03:10and the monetization actually helps to keep all of this running.
03:13I've seen my video talking about the difference in Ender 3,
03:18Ender 3 Pro, and Ender 3 Version 2.
03:22So Kaki Repair is a totally free movement.
03:25I've been making sure that it's like that since the day of inception.
03:29So basically, everyone is a volunteer, including myself.
03:32However, when there's funding needed, for example, like this truck going around Malaysia,
03:37usually I self-funded myself, I will never take payment from participants,
03:44because the whole concept is around when we try to go out and do something,
03:50whenever there's a payment, usually there's a barrier of entry, right?
03:55So I wanted more impact rather than profitability,
03:58so that's why I kept it to be that way.
04:00Today, there's many Kaki Repair happening everywhere.
04:04They just go on and start their own community,
04:07and they start their own space.
04:08Everyone chip in, whether it's tools, whether it's manpower and all that,
04:13and it has been growing ever since like that.
04:16We have around 160 over 1,000 members.
04:19Everyone is just helping out each other,
04:21and hundreds of items have been fixed every other day.
04:25Basically, statistics that I kept was up until COVID,
04:28we fixed around 50,000 ringgit worth of products.
04:32During the whole COVID season, just online alone,
04:36we fixed like nearly 200,000, 300,000 ringgit worth of items,
04:41and then the best result that we got,
04:43it was after COVID, and there was this huge flood in Taman Serin Mode.
04:49So the Kaki Repair volunteers went out and helped to fix the flooded items,
04:54and in just that four days alone, we fixed 300,000 worth of items, okay?
05:00And that was really a very good validation,
05:02that not just communities learn how to repair their own stuff,
05:07but with the skills that they have,
05:09we all can go out and contribute to the society as well.
05:13Okay, but there's one more thing I need to show you.
05:15Okay.
05:16Okay, see if you wipe it clean.
05:20Tissue pepper.
05:21Yeah, they got a lot of tissue pepper.
05:22Okay.
05:23Yay!
05:24The Star Golden Hearts Award actually helped me a lot is because
05:28one, it really validated that this movement is showing impact,
05:33and I'm really grateful for that.
05:34It's because all this while,
05:36sometimes I felt that this movement is very small,
05:39sometimes I felt that,
05:41are we doing enough to move the community and the society?
05:46This is really a great validation,
05:48that is given to myself, my team,
05:50and everyone in Kaki Repair.
05:53And I hope that with this recognition and this publicity,
05:58more people will self-start and do repair in their own little community,
06:04group and villages.
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