Happenings Around Us - 13 February 2014

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Saravanan Kandasamy

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Hi All,

Welcome to The Malaysian Indian's Bulletin Board (MIBB). If you are receiving this email, then your email ID is listed in our mailing list. 

Let's see what we have for you today,
 
From MIBB's Desk - Web Hosting Provider
Dear All -- If you have engaged a web hosting company for your company/organization and if you are satisfied with their package, price and services, could you share the name of the hosting company at svan...@gmail.com. I am looking for a hosting company to support MIBB that comes with low requirement i.e 5GB bandwidth/month with 2GB of webspace. Thanks

Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan
Deadline - 31 March 2014

Eligibility Criteria:
-Not be more than 45 years of age during application.
-Obtained a minimum of 2nd Class Upper (Honours) or a CGPA of 3.5/4.0 at Bachelor Degree Level for Masters Degree applicants and for PhD candidates must possess CGPA 3.5/4.0 or very good result at Masters degree level in a similar field of intended PhD study. In addition, for post-doctoral programme, the selection will be evaluated based on the number of books produced, refereed/non refereed journals, portfolio and patent copyright. The Post-Doctoral candidate must have excellent reputation in research and possesses knowledge related to the research to be carried out.
-Took one of the following English Language Proficiency Test not more than two years before the date of application. The list of tests and minimum scores required:
IELTS Academic Test with a score of at least 6.5; or
TOEFL paper-based test with a score of at least 580 or computer-based test with a score of at least 230 or internet-based test with a score at least 92.
-In excellent health condition and certified by a Certified Doctor/Medical Professional. The cost of medical examination is to be borne by the applicants
-Wrote a proposal that is relevant to field of studies.
-Has applied for and gained admission to postgraduate and post-doctoral studies in Malaysia (conditional letters of offer will be accepted at the time of application or has a confirmation of acceptance or affiliation with the universities in Malaysia).

ECMLibra Foundation's Study Loan Programme
The Foundation offers study loans to underprivileged and needy students undertaking tertiary education in any approved private or public university or college. The study loan which is interest and bond free will cover tuition fees which will be paid directly to the tertiary institutions and may include cost of living expenses
 
Eligibility Criteria:
-Be a Malaysian citizen
-Prove eligibility for financial assistance, as means testing will be strictly applied
-Have good academic record and be active in extracurricular activities
-Have gained admission into an approved local college or university for a professional or vocational course.
   
Distress Email - A Poor Family's House Burnt Down - Penang - Update
MIBB - We have published the below yesterday. Glad to announce within 8 hours we have sufficient donors to assist the family below. Those of you who had emailed Mogan, he will be getting in touch with you soonest. You guys are simply awesome! Let me tell you how awesome you guys are. I have been told the article about this family had been published on 30 Jan 2014 on front page of a Tamil Newspaper. I have been updated since the publication no political organization or individual have came forward to help them. But within 8 hours we managed to render sufficient help for the family to move forward. This is due to your active citizenship! You had made a difference in one's life. I am also aware there are several companies and groups of individuals whom had not communicated with us but are working out something to help the family. You are most welcome to help them, our scope is as stated below, you may choose to help in the items that has not covered below. We are aiding for 3 months, you may choose to aide them for the next 2 or 3 months as you wish.

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Mogan has updated regarding a poor family in Sungai Bakap that direly needs help.

Chandrasegaran and his family used to stay in wooden house which belongs to his mother (land belongs to a Chinese). On 28-1-2014 about 10.00 pm the house was completely burn down due to electrical short circuit. During that time the mother was at nearby shop but fortunately the neighbor able to save their children and mother in law. None of the belongings were able to be saved including the books and uniform of their school going children. Everything was gone in few minutes. Currently the family sheltering at relative house.

Report with pictures of the incidence

Chandrasegaran is a daily wage worker, doing cement work. Daily income of RM 30. Monthly he able to bring back salary around RM700 to RM800. His wife Chandraletchimi is a house wife. They have two children a) Divyasree is 5 years old. A kindergarden student at SJKT Sungai Bakap. Very jovial and talkative. She stopped going to kinder garden after the fire incident. b) Harvendran is 4 years old.

The help they have seeked thus far and its update
1. Welfare Department – The department have contributed RM500 as immediate assistance. Helped the family to process new ID card and birth certificate for the children and the mother.
2. Jawatankuasa Kampung – They have contributed RM1000.
3. Have contacted MIC but been updated help was not forthcoming due to not be their "area".

As the family is poor and urgently need some help, Mogan had devised a 3-6 months plan to assist the family. This is intended to be a jump start hoping they able to stand on their own feet at the end of the plan.

Desperate needs of the family.
1. House for rental : Need help on the deposit. Estimated rental RM250/month x 3 months deposit = RM750. Exact amount to be confirmed once the rental house is found.
2. Milk powder (Dutch Lady) for her children. RM 36/month x 6 months= RM216
3. School/kindergarden uniform, shoe, beg, books and other clothings for Divyasree. Budget around RM400
4. Clothings for Harvendran and the mother. Budget around RM400
5. Diapers for two children. RM66/month x 3 months = RM198
6. Grocery items – flour, rice etc – RM200 x 3 months = RM 600
7. Other household utensils when the family move to new house. Budget around RM500
Total Estimation : RM 3064

If you are able to help in any way you can do contact Mogan at <snipped>
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Community Driven Initiative - The Right to Sight
MIBB - For The Right to Sight Penang, we are estimating to need around than 150 spectacles, we already have pledges for 110 of them. If you like to assist, you may write to me at svan...@gmail.com and share with me your pledge. If you are free to assist on the program on 20th February 2014 at SJKT Ladang Changkat and SJKT Ladang Byram, do write to me at the same email address, you are most welcome to join us. I have also updated the receipt for Right to Sight(Penang).

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The Right to Sight is a community driven activity where an eye examination program will be done for under enrolled Tamil School students.  Many studies worldwide have pointed the vision and academic performances of students are inter-related.
 
Thus it’s important to ensure that all the students have good vision in order for them to excel well academically. In this program, students whom had been screened to have vision problem will receive a pair of spectacles for free courtesy of the community. Our pilot program in Selangor was successful then we explored Kedah where it has been successfully completed and now we have stepped to Penang, our final state for this program.

Objectives
-To do eye examination for all students from Tamil School that has 100 or less students at their school’s premise.
-To assist poor Tamil School student whom had been prescribed to wear spectacles by optometrist by donating a pair spectacles, reducing the financial burden of the poor family.
-Motivating the students to do better academically with their improved vision.
-To exhibit the caring nature of the community and corporate assisting the less fortunate.

1) The Right to Sight (Selangor) - Status - COMPLETED

List of 13 Participating Schools
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SJKT Ladang Hopeful -1/15
SJKT Ladang Sungai Rambai -1/28
SJKT Ladang Nigel Gardner -5/46
SJKT Ladang Mary -0/15
SJKT Ladang Sungai Tinggi -2/55
SJKT Ladang Ampar Tenang -7/85
SJKT Ladang Bute -5/31
SJKT Ladang Dominion -4/29
SJKT Ladang West Country Barat -15/69
SJKT Sungai Sedu -6/68
SJKT Ladang Limabelas -1/13
SJKT Ladang Kerling -2/50
SJKT Ladang Sungai Bernam -0/29

Total No.Spectacles/Total No.Students  = 49/533 (9.2%)
Partners: Tun Hussein Onn Eye Hospital (THONEH) and Apex Club of Kuala Lumpur 
Cost of Program: RM3675 

2) The Right to Sight (Kedah) - Status - COMPLETED

List of 22 Participating Schools
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SJKT Ladang Scarboro Bhg. 2 -4/24
SJKT Ladang Binjol -6/31
SJKT Ladang Bukit Sembilan -5/49
SJKT Ladang Kuala Ketil -2/24
SJKT Ladang Kim Seng -12/35
SJKT Ladang Malakoff -5/19
SJKT Ladang Patano Para -4/23
SJKT Ladang Sungai Puntar -4/23
SJKT Ladang Harvard Bhg.3 -9/23
SJKT Ladang Kupang -4/16
SJKT Ladang Pelam -9/16
SJKT Ladang Buntar -4/16
SJKT Ladang Sungai Dingin -5/15
SJKT Ganesar -15/96
SJKT Ladang Dublin Bhg.7 -0/7
SJKT Ladang Harvard Bhg.2 -1/18
SJKT Ladang Sungai Bongkok -3/27
SJKT Ladang Sungkap Para -4/30
SJKT Ladang Tupah -4/26
SJKT Ladang Bukit Jenun -4/28
SJKT Changlun -17/65
SJKT Thiruvalluvar -25/68
 
Total No.Spectacles/Total No.Students = 146/679 (21.5%)
Partners: Bee Kong Optical, Buntar Optical, Pelangi Optical and Eyedea Optometry
Cost of Program: RM9675
The Proof of Payment: Awaiting from the Team

3) The Right to Sight (Penang)  - Status - Just started

List of 8 Participating Schools
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SJKT Rajaji -21/80
SJKT Ladang Changkat - to be screened on 20 Feb 2014
SJKT Ladang Byram - to be screened 20 Feb 2014
SJKT Ladang Mayfield 
SJKT Ladang Transkrian
SJKT Ladang Sempah
SJKT Sungai Bakap
SJKT Ladang Batu Kawan

Partner: London Eye Optometry
Cost of Program: RM1470 (till date)

We like to thank all the donors and team members for The Right to Sight Selangor and Kedah for the kind help. With their help we managed to screen 1212 poor students from 35 under enrolled schools and assisted 195 of them to obtain better vision. Am sure they will have a better quality education after this.

For The Right to Sight Penang, we are estimating to need around than 150 spectacles, we already have pledges for 110 of them. If you are keen to assist, kindly write to me at svan...@gmail.com sharing your pledge. We are just taking pledge for this moment so we will know when to stop once we have sufficient donors to cover the estimated spectacles.
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Community Driven Initiative - ICT and Preschool in Rural School Kedah
MIBB - For the wiring cost that is estimated at RM2000 we already have donors for RM1000, two donors whom had pledged to cover the balance RM1000 became incommunicado, thus we are welcoming anyone who like to be part of this acitivity. If you like to chip in do email me at svan...@gmail.com indicating your pledge. I have been updated the pre-school would require a hand rail for the children, it is estimated to cost RM2000, glad to say we have sufficient donor for this.

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In our Bulletin Board we have been promoting active citizenship to our members, where everyone are encouraged to plan, fund raise and execute projects for the development of our community.

Recently, our members from Kedah have done several interesting projects. SJKT Ladang Katumba is a rural school in Kuala Ketil,Kedah.

a) As ICT knowledge is important not just for its students but also for the surrounding community. They have setup an ICT Lab in the school so that the rural community is not left behind in this field. They aptly named the lab as "Sir CV Raman ICT Lab", recognizing the contribution of a Noble Prize winner in Physics. Hoping the students will be encouraged to reach greater height in ICT and Science. The album below will walk you through the journey the members of this Bulletin Board have gone through to setup the lab. They not only have planned and excuted the project but they also chipped in their money with other kind hearted donors for this purpose.


b) Statistics shows rural community often skip pre-school education i.e kindergarten. There are many reasons for this and one of it is lack of facility. The members of this Bulletin Board have spoken with the management of Ladang Katumba estate, where they have been given a shack in a temple compound to be used for this purpose. The famous poet Bharati had once wished to see temples to become schools. This team has realised it here. As the previous project, they chipped in their money with other kind hearted donors to make this happen. For the syllabus and teacher's salary I learn they are working with CHILD Association, an association specializes in pre-school education and its issues. They named this kindergarten as "Sri Ramalinga Swami Balar Palli". Do see how a ruined shack have been transformed into a beautiful kindergarten by the magical hands of these souls


The above two projects are not just successful projects but also pertinent ones for our community.

c) They are not done yet, they are working to setup another ICT lab which could accommodate 10 computers at SJKT Ladang Dublin Bhg. 5, a rural school in Mahang, Kedah. This lab will be used to expose ICT to the students, teachers and also to the surrounding community. The members from Kedah have chipped in their money to start the project, the construction has started and the building is in 60% progress


They were looking for further funds for the below, to assist them to move to the next phase of the development.

Estimation
a) Lab furniture - RM1,300
b) Workmanship   - RM4,600
c) Grill         - RM1,000
d) Sliding door  - RM  600
Total - RM7,500 

Glad to say we had 22 donors came forward to chip in the needed RM7,500. We later been updated this funds would not only would be enough to build the ICT lab but also to renovate a building meant to be used as a pre-school!

The next phase for the ICT Lab and Kindergarten is the installation of electrical wiring, lights and fan which is estimated to be RM2,000. Do inform me at svan...@gmail.com if you would be interested to chip in for the above. For now we are just collecting pledges so we would know when to stop collecting funds.
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Walk-In Interview - First Solar - Finance Shared Services
First Solar is a global provider of comprehensive PV solar energy solutions. In Malaysia it houses a large manufacturing site with six plants in Kulim Hi-Tech Park.
Date : 15 February 2014, Saturday
Time : 9.00 am - 3.00 pm
Venue : Gurney Paragon Office, 163E -12-01 (Level 12), Hunza Tower, Jalan Kelawei, 10250 Penang.

Please bring along latest resume, photograph, salary slip, original and photocopy academic certificates.

Positions
-Accounting Manager

-Financial Analyst

-AP Accountant

-Fixed Asset Accountants

-Costing Analysts

-GL Accountant

-Project Accountant

-Tax Accountant

Ok that's all from me.

Let's Shine.

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Saravanan Kandasamy
MIBB
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