HELP Community Learning Centre (Myanmar Refugees)

Date: 12/12/2010 Sunday

Time: 4pm - 5pm
Venue: Help Education Center (Myanmar Refugee)

Caretaker: Chris Jong

Contact: 012 873 0380

Profile: Myanmar Refugee

Total: 95 kids age 4-17.

Upon finishing lunch, we proceed to the HELP Community Center in Kepong. The school is normally not open on Sunday, but the centre has gracefully accommodate to change Monday's schedule to Sunday. When we reach there, the kids were in class. Not many students came over as its a Sunday.

Class in Progress

Stair case mural

Lovely wall mural

 
Chris was there to greet us and ushered us to his office, explained to us how the refugees make their way to Malaysia. All of them are currently in transition to English speaking country such as US, Australia, etc. The objective of this school is to provide basic education to the kids, so that they are able to have a better life when they are relocated. 

Briefing by Chris on the center's core mission

We were told that the refugees paid to come to Malaysia and have to travel through the jungles for 2 weeks to reach Malaysia, and during the time, their safety is at risk. You would have to hear the story right from Chris to know how bad the situation is. We should be lucky that we have our country, compared to them where they are prosecuted by their own government and face all the danger traveling through the jungle to reach here.

The center consist of 2 floors, which can accommodates 95 students. Currently, total students increase about 5 each month, and they are looking to expand to another floor in the next building.

The corridor between the offices and the class room. Reminds me of those tuition days!

Seems that everyone here loves to smile!

Class room for the 15-17yrs old students

Upper floor class for the younger children

Guess the kids love the attention given for the day.

Photos with the pretty ladies .. ;) 

Happy faces.. Remember, happiness is in the state of your mind.

Our deliveries this round is mostly stationary 

Great gift for the kids from Melinda & team.

Stationary purchased from Tesco..all comes up to nearly RM400!!!

Our deliveries which are all stationary and 2 tins of biscuits

Teacher (L) with Melinda (R)

Students with our Singaporean guest

The team with Chris

Class in action. Used tables from kindergarden.

 

Again, thank you to all the donors again for making this visit a success. We hope to see more of you all soon. Special thanks for Melinda & team for joining us again and with all the gifts.

Rumah Kanak-kanak Angels

Rumah Kanak-Kanak Angel

Date: 12/12/2010 Sun

Time: 12pm - 2pm

Address : 126 Jln Hujan Gerimis 2,

Tmn Overseas Union, Bt.5 Jln Klang Lama, 58200 KL

Caretaker: Ms Belinda Chew

Home Profile: 5 boys + 9 girls, Age: 5 - 13 years old, Race: Chinese & Indian.

Lovely ANGELS posting after they had their McDonald's lunch..followed by Twisty snack...

"A picture tells a thousand words", so hopefully those who see this will be able to help to reduce Belinda's burden to run and manage the Angels in the house. (Dont ask us what is Wet Marketing.. we also dont know...)

Look at those trophies in the cabinet.....these are really achievers club. With their current situation their spirit to strike for the best in study & sports has never stop the ANGELS to perform in life.

SPECIAL THANKS TO

1. Visitors from Singapore (Melinda - Blessing In A Bag)

2. Camera Girls (Ms Chan & Ms Lai - you cant see them cause they are holding the camera la)

3. All 13 donors / volunteers (most of us choose to be low profile and dont want to be seen)

The team of 5, from Blessings In A Bag had earlier found our blog, and contacted us to join in our monthly event. After almost 2 months of planning & logistics discussion, here we are today, making all the planning a reality! We picked the Singapore team from church in Subang, and proceed to the home. They come with 2 large bags with full of stuffs!!!

(L) Melinda + (R) Belinda = LindaS power!

Melinda with ANGELS...

Both Lindas are busy unloading the clothings, dresses, puzzles, dictionary & stationery.

(Boy in pic) Harry Lee is looking and envying the items....i told him that he need to train hard in his badminton training inorder for me to award him the thingsss....

We appreciate the kind heart of Melinda and team, taking the efforts to carry 20kgs bag, flying cross border to do this charity with us. Make us proud of them! Bah kata pepatah, "Nak Seribu Daya, Tak Nak seribu dalih" and i always belief that: If you think you can, YOU CAN!


Photos Of our delivery for this December 2010 for ANGEL.

The final 3 tins of biscuits to be delivered today (purchased earlier, receipt in earlier posting), of which 1 for Angel & 2 for HELP Education Center (Myanmar Refugee) in the 4pm visit.

We also bought Milo, cooking oil, Rice, Frozen foods (Hotdogs, burgers, crab sticks, nuggets, french fries), jam, butter, eggs, biscuits & etc.... hmm..now I am hungry....

Overall Cost

Econ Save list - RM 388.07

McDonald's Lunch RM 180.40

Grand total: 568.47

As we are still updating the donor listing, the name list will be published within this week to update every one. This issue arise from delay of Interbank GIRO Funds transfer into our account, and sometimes the funds is deposited without notification. So, we really appreciate if you can send a note if you are doing a online transfer. Hence, i lost quite a lot off hairsssss to reconcile and perform tracking.

Looking at these happy faces, I can feel their happiness under Belinda in Rumah Kanak-kanak Angels - a well manage & maintain orphanage. 

While we were there, someone are providing the home with party and was arranging the food at the open space area. Perhaps its a good day today, as there was about 6 different teams visiting the home! From cash, food & even a party! :) Feels good to know there are many caring people out there.

Belinda also informed us that there are volunteers bringing the kids for movie outing, KLCC jalan-jalan & etc. Which we think is a thumbs up idea to ensure the kids is exposed to the surrounding and keep up to date info. I notice the house do have ASTRO TV Channel - a good learning tools. 

We left the place about 230pm, headed for quick lunch ....and the next location is the HELP Community Learning Centre (Myanmar Refugees)

Look at their smile on their faces......really makes me so happy....

We hope the readers of this blog can spread the love and caring hearts to the others.Thank you for reading!

Pusat Jagaan Serasu (OKU & Anak Anak Yatim)

For this visit, we went down to Nilai this time. We selected this home as it was previously visited by some of our friends' friend. We gathered at Sg Besi toll at 1pm met up with some members in Tesco Semenyih and proceed with our required purchase. (You might be bored with the same old introduction every time..but this is what really happen la..)

The location of the home is located near Nilai Giant. We took about 45 minutes to reach there and waited for the caretaker for more than 30 minutes for him to guide us to the home. Journey was a bit long today with traffic jam and waiting time, which is why we will ensure we do a pre-visit so that we wont get lost.

View of the house

No budget for sign board

The home is a single storey terrace house and is in a bad condition. Based on the information provided from the caretaker, the place takes care of total of 13 tenants, which include handicapped children, orphans and a blind old lady. They moved from Rawang 3 months ago, as most of the tenants' family are staying nearby.
The house condition is very run down, with water leaking through the water tank and bare minimum kitche necessity. We were told that rental is RM480, which we think its bit expensive for a place like this. There is not even a dining table/chairs or sofa in the hall. Its bit sad to see them sitting on the floor, idling with their eyes looking at the wall. Seriously, the tenants really need some help in terms of physiotherapy and welfare.

Leaking ceiling

  

Store room on the left, toilet on the right without doors and water dripping down from ceiling

They also do not have a television, and while we were there, all of them are sitting there idle on the floor. The only thing we saw is the working refrigerator. There are also no proper mattresses, beside those worn out one in the photos.

Require mattress for replacement

Kitchen

If you have some items to contribute, the address of the home is 8235 Taman Desa Jasmin, Jln Bandar Baru Nilai 5/400, 71800 Bdr Baru Nilai.
Caretaker: Kasevan
Contact 016 370 1959

Our contributions this month:-

 Accounts details:-

For this visit, we spent RM798.35.

Purchased 4 tin of biscuits... 1 for this home, and 3 others for Dec visit.

 

Again, special thanks to all our donors again and we also have few new donors as well. We are hoping new people will join and let the 'old people' have break! ;)

Updates : Persatuan Rumah Caring Kajang

After our 1st visit to Kajang Caring Home, we acknowledge Ms Wendy's request on below items:

1. Walker with roller

2. pain killer medication

We bought the items from Maruzen Pharmacy located @ 12, Jln Medan Putra 6/42D, Medan Putra Business Center, Bdr Menajalara@ a discounted rates. Ms Teow - the business owner willingly gave us some discount after knowing our intention is to buy and send to Kajang Caring Homes. Thank you! :)

As we discussed with Ms Teow on the pain killer medicine, she did not recommend the senior citizen to consume pain killer without a doctor visit and only recommending us to send the Paracetamol as temporarily pain release while pending Doctor medication.

On top of that, it come to our mind instead of consuming the medicine, there are other alternative to release pain - Plaster, oil, and cream which can also temporarily release their pain. Hence, we bought the tiger balm, minyak angin, ubat batuk, vicks vaporubs, counterpain cream for the same purpose.

One of the tenants in also use lotion due to crack skin, bought additional bottle of lotion for him.

1M1C Logo

We are happy to share the new face of 1Month 1Charity logo. Since we started many months ago, we could not really figure out what to put as our logo or a logo that represent us. But I guess it was not important as the our main objectives are to do help people, and in a glimpse of an eye, we completed 11 months of activities.

Today, in remembrance of Lai, we think it is appropriate to remember him in this way. As we continue to do what we pledge to Lai, we know he will be watching us.. ;)

Persatuan Rumah Caring Kajang

We did not do any activity in September and took the month off. To continue the momentum, we decided to do at the last day of the month.. and we are very surprised that the number of donors reach up to 34 people. Thank you people!! :) It has exactly 2 months since our last activity, and in between, we mourned the losses of our dear friend.

 
For this event, we have choose Persatuan Rumah Caring Kajang. No specific reasons, but based on information on the web, we would do a first time visit to see how much we can help. Again, as a pre-requisites, we called up and ask what is required, and as usual, grouped at Tesco to purchase the groceries. With the large number of donors this time, the total collection is RM1700. We divided into 4 teams to speed up the purchases.

We arrived at the place around 230pm and was greeted by Ms Wendy. The home consists of 2 houses, with the front porch merged together. Both places are rented and its good to know that the home owners waived the rental.

The criteria for the admission is above 60 years old, single and no family members. The place is well managed, and most of the old people are above 80 years old and still in good health.


While we were there, Wendy also tell us about lives of of many unfortunates in the home, from single mothers, orphans, old folks, mentally-challenged and drug addicts. The government hospital does refers senior citizens here if they are unable to trace the family members. The current home accommodates old folks (male/female) and single mothers.

Main entrance

Female tenant accommodation

As we were about to leave, someone drop by to do a cash donation. Its a relief that there are many people are still willing to lend a hand for the home during this time of economy.





Again, special thanks for all the donors this round. As the total purchase for this round only came up to RM1045 + RM88.80 (Lap Cheong), the balance of RM566.20 will be used for 2 purposes
a) medication for the home
b) carry forward.

List of items donated

Kitchen

Male tenant accommodation

Daily food menu.....

Additional Request :-

1. request for rack to put tenants things, as the old cabinets tends to wear off after sometime.
2. railings on the wall for ease of movements in the ladies section.
3. walker with wheels.

Accounting Details :-

For more details about the home, check out the URL below. 
http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2008/12/16/central/2808150&sec=central

Location Map to the Home