A few years ago, four young people were thrown into each other's company while working together at a non-profit organisation. The four were tasked with running infrastructure projects like gravity-fed water systems in rural areas in Sabah and Sarawak, an undertaking that soon led to an awakening of sorts.

“Along the way, we realised we were solving one problem at a time, like building water sources to these villages, for instance. But beyond that, what was going to happen? The people there would still be in a very difficult situation.