Gnanam's Blog

Aug 2010 Fund Flow Stmt

For the month of August 2010, Gnanam did a bit more travelling to college to attend more classes, so he is being given a total of RM280.00.

21 July 2010 Flow Stmt

Welfare aid seems slow in coming!

Letter – JKM Dated 19 April 2010

Thanks to YB Lim’s assistance, hope JKM will expedite the processing of this application. The family is in need of welfare assistance.
If anyone would like to make a personal donation, please call Paul at +6012-3799248 or email to lucifer_butler@yahoo.com

Date: 17 January 2010

Dear readers,

There has not been further pledges since the last posting.
Hope some of you can help.
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Hi readers, i got round to start the donations pool rolling.
We already have 3 pledges since 12 December 2009.

Do remember that the cashflow analysis is basically a projection of contingency funds which I would like to garner for Gnanam and his siblings. There is no fixed quantum to donate. Do donate from the heart. Many people do not have the financial means to make donations…its okay… if they want to put in a small lumpsum amount too, that’s fine. ANY AMOUNT …CAN DO. No frills.

Perhaps what everyone can do is to create awareness on the plight of people like Gnanam, through word of mouth or their blogs. If any of you are aware of organizations willing to help out please contact paul wong at 012-3799248 or email to lucifer_butler@yahoo.com or pwto23@yahoo.com

I started out with a micro issue…as an initial platform to see through to solutions towards helping Gnanam in particular to get out of the poverty trap and marginalized society. YB Elizabeth Wong’s office has given assurance to arrange study loan scholarships for Gnanam to get better education. From society’s part, we try to ease his financial burden and provide him with a conducive environment to study, pick up his life, get a good job in the future after graduation, fend for his family and give back to society by being involved in community service. Every micro issue tackled with a similar modus operandi goes a long way to a proven track record of problem solving issues at a macro-level.

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Education is the key to building a better society and we, as individuals, have an obligation to help with the education of the less fortunate.

Would you, if you could help underprivileged children?

Here’s a micro issue which I hope you readers could help out.
I am looking for caring civil society, at least 28 people, to co-sponsor Gnanam ( also a talented school soccer player) with a monthly donation of RM50.00 each for one year.
Gnanam completed his PMR (third level) and SPM (fifth level) examinations with commendable excellence whilst in a shelter home for the underprivileged in Melaka during 2000 to 2004. He left the Welfare Home to be with his parents and six other siblings in 2005 but his life was shattered by the recent tragedy which befall his family, his breadwinning father was found dead whilst in police detention. At the time, media was all hype over the cause of death, which till today YB Sivarasa has yet to revert to the family on the status of legal recourse of possible negligence on the part of the police in not according prompt medical attention to the deceased.

Media hype died down….public interest waned….family of deceased virtually “left in isolation” to brave the harshness reality of a cold world.
The burden of providing for his family compelled him to seek employment earning a meagre salary of RM800.00 though he has ambition to further his studies (A-Levels) given the opportunity. The inherent poverty circle marks a bleak future for Gnanam. He need help. Assistance from the welfare authorities has yet to be seen since the demise of his father in mid-June 2009. The underprivileged if not helped are going to fall on to the wrong path and which is not their fault because they have not selected to be poor and bad.
Because society make or breaks as person. Come lets make this world a better place to live in. If any of you – individual or body corporate – can lend a helping hand, financially, on a group effort basis, perhaps we can help Gnanam to have a better tomorrow. By helping Gnanam, he will be able to fend for his family too.

You may contact Paul Wong at 012-3799248 or email to lucifer_butler@yahoo.com for further details.

Gnanam would like to pursue his A-Levels. I have done a simplified cashflow projection of the investment in Gnanam’s A-Levels one-year program with a local college.

YB Elizabeth Wong has kindly looked into procuring a studyloan/scholarship for Gnanam. He is sheduled for the January 2010 intake with a local college in Kuala Lumpur.

I would like to call on members of the public to assist in making some donations for this cause. Please feel free to contact me at +6012-3799248 or email to lucifer_butler@yahoo.com for more details.

Quite simply on behalf of some NGIs, we would like to help this boy for a better future. He has alot on his shoulder to handle. His PMR and SPM results provides a good indicator of his strive for excellence despite all the setbacks of his family life. A small gesture on our part could perhaps give him that chance for a new lease of life.

His stint in the welfare home was primarily due to the parents’ inability to take care of their siblings. Gnanam’s personal attributes/attitudes is vouchable.

Apparently, Gnanam’s mother informed Sekarn that Gnanaprakasam had a motorbike which was detained by the police when the later got arrested. She would have wanted to get the motorbike back but the police station personnel told her that the keys were missing. Till todate, they could not get the bike back.

Also the mother mentioned that when her husband was detained, he had informed the wife that he had with him some cash of about RM3,000 and had wanted to pass to his wife for contingency just in case they need to use money when he was not around. Apparently the cash was part of personal items parted from the detainee and kept under police custody and she could not have access to it. What became of the cash no one knows. Surely this cash would have come in handy to the family especially in hard times where the breadwinner was not around to fend for the family.