If you’ve read about my posts on Eden Handicap Service Centre, you will know that it takes a lot of passion for somebody to provide a home for the under-privileged. It is true that such centres do not normally receive a lot of donations, and that donations from the public aren’t always consistent.
As such, a handicap centre in Melaka is appealing to the general public for donations to run the home:
The Malacca Handicapped and Mentality Disabled Children Centre needs an average of RM14,000 a month for maintenance, utilities, household items and staff salary.
The centre was founded by local resident V. Rajamanikam seven years ago to give special children the best facilities in education and health so that they can support themselves one day. The centre takes in handicapped, blind, deaf, dumb, mentally retarded, Down Syndrome and cerebral palsy children. It can accommodate 50 children and currently has 46 Malays, Chinese and Indians aged seven to 57 years.
Its chairman R. Farimanalan, 33, said the centre was in need of financial support and items like cooking oil, Milo, Dettol, garbage bags, milk powder and sugar.
Nurse Amy Ng, who has worked at the centre for seven years, said most of the children’s parents were unable to provide adequate funds for their daily expenses and medical bills.
The centre hopes to buy equipment to provide physiotherapy instead of sending those in need of the service to the hospital daily.
For more information, call 06-232 2530.
Source: Children’s home appeals for support, The Star, 26 September 2007
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Sometimes we get so lost in the comfort of our lives that we forget there are people around us who don’t even have proper shelter and food; the very basic necessities of life.
I really can’t bear having to see so many little children living in such abject conditions while I enjoy all the privileges. But there is so little I can do as an individual.
There is an organization here in Pakistan called “Edhi foundation” that provides shelter to such children and gets hefty amounts of donations. I wouldn’t trust giving my money to such foundations who take money in the name of poor children and use it to buy more luxuries for their wives, but the guy who founded Edhi foundation is a very humble and down-to-earth person, so I am confident that my donations are spent on the right cause :)
Yeap, Mohsin, if you have read my posts on Eden Handicap, I’m sure you’d agree that Eden and Edhi are similar in terms of providing shelter to children :)