Exhibition Highlights Role Of Malaysian Women In Sustainability Drive

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 11 (Bernama) -- A month-long exhibition to acknowledge female policy-makers and social entrepreneurs in Malaysia is currently held at the National Visual Arts Gallery here. The 'Female Faces and Malaysia Sustainable Cities' exhibition which was officially launched on Tuesday, features 21 women who are considered important players in defining and implementing sustainable development goals in the government, private sector and community level. Coming from various backgrounds, they include National Council of Women's Organisations Malaysia (NCWO) president Dr Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan Shahabudin; Mercy Malaysia founder Dr Jemilah Mahmood and public health educator and TV host June Low. The exhibition is a high impact, joint collaboration effort between Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM or Technology University of Malaysia) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. "This exhibition represents Malaysian women's efforts covering broad aspects of sustainability in Malaysian cities," UTM vice-chancellor Prof Dr Wahid Omar told reporters at the launch of the exhibition. It exhibits the outcome from MIT-UTM Malaysia Sustainable Cities Programme (MSCP) which studied sustainable city development efforts in Malaysia and in the process, captured the role of women as agents of change. The cities surveyed under the MSCP initiative were Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru, Putrajaya, Georgetown and Kuching. The exhibition from 10am to 5pm and ending on Nov 13, features, among others, 75 works of field photography, 21 video interviews and 19 video research documentaries. --BERNAMA