page_title: Maya Karin
section_title: Activism
hierarchical_section_title: Maya Karin / Activism
caption_attribution_description: Interview + Photo Shoot with Maya Karin, on her role as an environmental ambassador.
context_page_description: Maya Karin Roelcke is a Malaysian and Germans film actress, television host, and singer. Now one of the leading and established actresses in Malaysia's local film industry, she garnered wide recognition from the critics and public for her award-winning and memorable performances in movies such as Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam, Anak Halal, Ombak Rindu and Munafik 2. Her movies have grossed over RM85m so far.
  Maya holds the record in the history of the Malaysia Film Festival for an actress with most nominations in the category of Best Actress Award and she's among few actresses to have won the award twice. Maya is also the first of only two Malaysian actresses to have won the prestigious Best Actress Award at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival.
context_section_description: Having been influenced by her father, Maya has been very passionate about the environment from a young age. Maya is actively involved in various campaigns for environmental and animal protection and often works with the Malaysian Nature Society and World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
  She also has her own campaign drive MayaLovesNature, the first two of which involved working with 22000 schoolchildren from 14 different primary schools targeting awareness of excessive use and waste of plastic bags. 2012 sees her as ambassador for the governments new recycling initiative and as spokesperson for the Geological Institute of Malaysia.
   In January 2019, Maya has been appointed as the ambassador for River of Life, a River of Life - a public outreach programme initiated by Malaysia's Ministry of Federal Territories which aims to transform the Klang River into a vibrant and livable waterfront with high economic value. Maya is chosen based on her continuous efforts in promoting the need to preserve and conserve the environment. One of her successful endeavors as the River of Live ambassador, is when her awareness campaign on clean rivers has turned into internet phenomena known as #MayaRiverChallenge. The trend started when Maya uploaded a photo of herself dipping her head in a cool stream on Instagram since then Malaysian netizens have uploaded their own versions of it on various social media platforms.
  In September 2019, Maya tweets “shall we let greed prevail?” to Indonesian President Joko Widodo.
caption: Maya Karin, environmental ambassador
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