Our tropical rainforest are believed to be the homes of half the world’s flora and fauna. Many unique spesies found here provide food , medicine  and other resources for humans. According to the National Cancer Institute, 70% of the plants which are useful in the treatment of cancer can only be found in the tropical rainforest.

Herbal medicine has been very popular in our local community. For generations, our fore fathers have been using a mixture of herbal roots, stem and leaves which are dried, pounded and mixed to cure many types of diseases We should value and continue to keep this knowledge on tradisional medicine handed down by our fore fathers.

We students of SMK Menglembu, Ipoh , Perak hope to create a herbal garden to bridge  the students, teachers and the local community in sharing our time to plant together and to gather knowledge on the uses of  the herbal plants in a herbal garden.

With a herbal garden , we hope to instill student awareness on preserving and concerving various living things. We want to inculcate the love for nature among students and the local community. With these activities, we want to instill some scientific attitudes and noble values as listed below:

·        Students will have an inquiring mind and a keen interest in nature and the environment.

·        Students will be cooperative and be considerate towards others and the environment.

·        Students will have a sense of responsibility and accountability to the community as a whole.

The creation of the herbal garden is also in line with our objective to create an exciting, active, meaningful and condusive environment for the teaching and learning of science and co-curricular activities. Indirectly, all these will help to improve our students’ learning skills in English and their love for nature.