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All the participants were excited and eager to join the activity. In the Day Two of UNI Apro Youth Workshop, all participants got to know each other well with more solidarity, despite of their different countries and cultures. 

Yesterday's, team activities, included a ; “Discovery @ UNI Apro you(TH)’s, were carried out to visit some symbolic places in Kuala Lumpur by using the public transportation. In addition, each group was assigned to get the information the extent to people's knowledge about trade unions and how globalization has been affecting them.

Each team visited tourism attractions and historical and religious sites in the city, such as the KLCC Twin Towers, the General Post Office, the Art Market, Petaling Street, the Indian Town, the Dataran Merdeka (Merdeka Square) and places of worships as well as multinational companies and bank offices.

Participants found many things from this activity. They interviewed many people and found out that majority of them did not know about the unions and did not furthermore know how to join the unions. This is reinforced by the fact that only some companies in Malaysia have unions. That's because most of the workers do not understand their rights as workers and the importance of association.

At the end of the event, each team came back to the workshop venue in the late afternoon and prepared for their presentation on what they did in the whole day. Each team will report it in front of all participants in the Day Three.

This activity was introduced to train communication skills and disciplines among youth as well as to build leadership and teamwork. In addition, the activity also helped them to understand how to carry out field research in the real ground.