Lions Club of Damansara Kuala Lumpur: 2010

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Official Launching of “Education & Welfare Fund”

Lions Club of Damansara Kuala Lumpur officially launched its “Education & Welfare Fund” on Sunday, 5 December 2010 at HGH Convention Centre (SJKC Sentul KL). It was launched by our District Governor Dato’ Yeow Wah Chin.

The auspicious occasion was organized and served with Luncheon of 105 tables and attended by more than 1,000 guests that included eleven folks & orphanage homes, teachers & student from three primary schools (of which their selected students are recipients of our education fund), friends of Lions, our regular sponsors and others to this luncheon. Besides that there were also many great performances by volunteer individual and group performers from schools and organizations during the Luncheon that lasted from 11 am to 3pm.

During the Luncheon, the Organizing Chairperson Mr Tay Ah Kam thanked everyone who were present especially all regular sponsors and volunteer performers that made the Launching a very successful one. President of Lions Club of Damansara Kuala Lumpur Mr Tan Sooi Ann emphasized that the objective if the Launching was to create awareness among the general public on serving the needy community. It is our club’s hope that more people will join hands and provide support by spending time with the less fortunate and also financially. Any individual that is interested can always join us as sponsorship member from as low as RM100 per sponsorship member.

Lions Club of Damansara Kuala Lumpur had collected fund exceeding RM200,000.00 from the Luncheon. During the Luncheon we also took the opportunity to present donation to the following:

LCI District “Lions Education Assistance for the Needy” project: RM75,000.00

Kuala Lumpur Lions Renal Centre: RM30,000.00
Three Chinese primary schools (SJKC Mun Yee, Setapak, SJKC Kheow Bin, Batu Caves & SJKC Desa Jaya, Kepong): Total RM22,000.00

Eleven old folks & children homes: Total RM16,500.00

Total donations: RM143,500.00

“Education Fund” project is one of the many projects carried out by our club for the past few years. The objective is to assist students from lower income groups by providing some financial assistance during their preparation for school re-opening. We provide school bags, uniforms and cash to the selected deserving students. We also conduct eye-screening and give away free spectacles to the selected deserving students from lower income group.

Now our club has decided to enlarge the scope of this fund in order to benefit more people who are less fortunate and we also wish to re-name our fund to be called “Education & Welfare Fund“. The objective of the above luncheon function is to officially launch the new fund and kick-off an aggressive fund raising campaign for this project.

Attached here few photos for your consideration (website & bulletin):

President Tan Sooi Ann (right) presented a mock cheque of RM70,000.00 to DC for “Lions Education Assistance for the Needy” project DC Elaine Tan, witnessed by District Governor Dato’ Yeow Wah Chin

Education Fund Chairman Lion Dato Robert Lim (right) presented a mock cheque of RM30,000 to Lion Uma Pushpanathan witnessed by President Tan Sooi Ann and District Governor Dato’ Yeow Wah Chin

(starts 2nd from right) Education & Welfare Fund Chairperson Dato Robert Lim, President Tan Sooi Ann & District Governor Dato’ Yeow Wah Chin together with representatives from three schools SJKC Mun Yee, Setapak, SJKC Kheow Bin, Batu Caves & SJKC Desa Jaya, Kepong after receiving the mock cheques.

(starts 6th from right) Luncheon Organizing Chairperson Lion Tay Ah Kam, President Tan Sooi Ann & District Governor Dato’ Yeow Wah Chin, Co- Organizing Chairperson Lion Steven Chew together with representatives from eleven homes after receiving the mock cheques.

Famous SS2 Maggie’s Line Dance Group Pom Xi Pom led by OC’s wife JM Chong

Great performance by Lion Gho Tian Sia

Special appearance by Astro celebrities led by our MC Cleo Tay (3rd from left)

Luncheon ended with group singing “We Are the World”

Thank You.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Mobile sightfirst

On Friday, 15 October 2010, 50 students of SJKC Desa Jaya, Kepong were given free spectacles by Lions Club of Damansara. This is our annual project to provide some assistance to selected students from lower income group. We hope that our assistance will help to relieve financial burden of these students.

50 free spectacles to be given free of charge fully sponsored by Lions Club of Damansara

Our optician inspecting a short-sighted student

A smiling student with her new spec

Group photo with all recipients, representatives from Lions Club of Damansara and school teachers

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Peace poster contest

This is an annual event organized by lions clubs world-wide with the objective to instill love for peace among all children. Lions Club of Damansara had selected SJKC Kheow Bin, Batu Caves, KL, and it was held on Saturday, 9 October 2010. It was participated by 150 primary students and the each participant was given a goodies and top three winners were also rewarded with cash prize of RM200, RM150 and RM100. The event was reported in the local Chinese Newspaper – Sin Chew Daily.

Group photo with Top three and 10 consolations prize winners

HM Mr Tan presented a certificate of appreciation to OC Lion SS Ong

A winner with our president Lion Tan (left),HM Mr Tan (center) and oC Lion SS Ong (right)

Best 4 drawings

A winner receiving prize from Lion Justin Low

A winner receiving prize from Lion Richard Ong

One of the drawings

Monday, August 9, 2010

SJKC Yuk Chai Charity Sale 育才华小义买会

We participated in the Chinese school charity sale project on Sunday 18 July 2010. Named “The PJ Carnival”, with the objective of raising school building fund, it was a very successful event with more than 100 volunteer stalls owners participated by selling food, games, and many other stuff. Lions Club of Damansara participated by selling e-books and old story books. We were assisted by leos from Omega Leo Club of Damansara.

In summary what we had done for the Chinese school building fund was:
1. Sale of e-books & story books : paid by coupons (estimated to be ~RM500 to 700)
2. Cash donation: RM1,000

International Relationship - Built a centre for Jakarta down syndrome children （与印尼狮子会联办福利活动）

This was a joint project with our sister club – Lions club of Jakarta Mutiara Prima, Indonesia, to build a three storey school building named “Yayasan Kasih Bunda” for ninety disabled students who used to sit on the floor to study. The cost of building was >USD50,000. We had made four visits to Jakarta for the purpose of site visits/fund raising event/others. This project was reported in a few Indonesian local newspapers and other media.

Mobile Sight First （免费提供視力檢查、眼鏡给贫穷学生）

This is another project which helps selected students from the lower income group. There are many students who do not even realize they are shortsighted until we screen their eye-sight. Their parents cannot afford to buy glasses for them and these students are disadvantaged in their study. We provide free eye-screening and free spectacles for the selected students.

Education Fund Project - Annual Scholarship for Students (常年学生助学金)

The objective is to assist students from lower income group by providing some financial assistance during their preparation for school re-opening. Applicants must be a primary school student and those selected must achieve good academic study and also must have good record of discipline and behavior. We had selected two schools so far, i.e. 1. SJK Kheow Bin, Batu Caves, KL and 2. SJK Mun Yee, KL whereby we provide school bags & uniform worth RM150.00 per student and cash scholarship of RM200.00 per student.