Hamemayu Kolektif is a Malaysian social enterprise bringing affordable, on-site eye care directly to factory workers, foreign workers, B40 communities, and students — wherever they are.
Approximately 5–8 million Malaysians currently need but lack access to affordable prescription glasses. This is not merely a health statistic — it is an education, productivity, and economic emergency.
Workers with poor vision experience more accidents and errors, earn less, and are unable to afford healthcare, creating a downward spiral. Students with uncorrected vision fall behind in class, limiting their life chances from the very start.
Traditional optical retail was never designed for them. Shops are expensive, inaccessible by location, and require people to take time off work — losing wages they cannot afford to lose.
Traditional optical care is out of reach for B40 and foreign worker households on tight incomes.
Optical shops are concentrated in urban centres, far from factories, rural schools, and B40 neighbourhoods.
Taking time off work for a clinic visit — and a second trip to collect glasses — means lost income many can't afford.
Foreign workers face language barriers and mobility restrictions that make navigating retail care nearly impossible.
These groups need reliable vision for their livelihoods and safety — yet traditional optical models consistently fail to reach them.
Operating heavy machinery with poor vision creates serious safety risks. Language barriers make standard retail inaccessible.
Driving long hours with uncorrected vision endangers passengers, cargo, and public safety on Malaysian roads.
Elderly Malaysians in the B40 segment depend on their vision for independence and daily life — and often cannot afford retail glasses.
A child who cannot see the board cannot learn. Vision access in school is one of the highest-leverage education interventions possible.
A fundamentally simple, scalable, and fully mobile operational model. We bring eye care directly to the people — instead of waiting for people to visit optical shops.
Company, NGO, or School
We come to you
Individual prescription
Quality lens production
7–10 days to your site
Ongoing care relationship
Three pillars delivering end-to-end vision care — products, services, and programs.
Hamemayu is a purpose-driven social enterprise with a fundamentally different model — mobile, affordable, and built for communities traditional optical shops ignore.
| Disruption Matrix | Traditional Optical Shops | Hamemayu Kolektif |
|---|---|---|
| Delivery Model | Customers visit retail shop | Mobile model goes directly to customers |
| Core Priority | Focus on fashion & luxury | Focus on affordability & utility |
| Target Audience | Urban consumer market | Underserved B40 / industrial communities |
| Client Base | Purely individual B2C | Corporate B2B & NGO program partnerships |
| Business DNA | Pure retail business | Purpose-driven Social Enterprise |
Measurable improvements in student learning, worker safety & productivity, elderly independence, and foreign worker welfare.
Immediate improvement in workplace safety and error reduction.
A night and day difference in classroom engagement.
Hamemayu has established a growing network of NGO, corporate B2B, and government agency partners — creating scalable, recurring channels to deliver vision care at community and industrial scale.
A staged expansion from our Klang Valley basecamp to a full Southeast Asian presence — building communities, partnerships, and mobile fleet capacity at every phase.
Focus on local factories, schools, and NGOs. Proving the model and building operational excellence.
Expanding corporate and NGO footprint across Malaysia's key industrial hubs.
Full national deployment with a complete mobile fleet serving communities across all states.
Targeting Indonesia, Bangladesh worker programs, and rural Southeast Asian communities.
10 years of entrepreneurship in the medical and F&B sectors. Brings deep operational experience in building and scaling purpose-driven businesses in Malaysia.
12 years in O&G retail services and logistics. Drives Hamemayu's supply chain, operations, and field service delivery across Malaysia.
Whether you're an employer, NGO, school, or community partner — we'd love to work with you.
✉️ hello@hamemayu.org