Happenings Around Us - 31 May 2015

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Saravanan Kandasamy

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Hi All,

Welcome to My Malaysian Indian Bulletin Board (myMIBB). 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 myMIBB's Table -- Tamil Schools
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Venkata Chellam posed me this pertinent question -- A lot of Tamil schools are in well established estates. Don't they get support from them ? 

I honestly don't know the answer. If you do, please share it with me at svan...@gmail.com and Venkata Chellam  at venchel...@gmail.com

Japanesee Government (Monbukagakusho: MEXT) Scholarship 2017
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Scholarship - Adelaide Scholarships International (ASI)
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Deadline: 31 August 2016

Community Driven Initiative - Wheels That Help (WTH) 
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Kana is leading the "Wheels That Help" program where the aim is to deliver wheelchairs to any needy family/individual who can't afford for one. Homes/shelter etc not entitled.

The process
1. Requestor/recommender to forward brief background, justification and photo.
2. It will be reviewed to see if the identified benefactor is poor and fulfills the criteria. 
3. A new wheelchair will be delivered to the successful applicant's door step.

How one can join
1. Assist to identify if anyone around you who can make use of this help
2. Compile the needed information and send it to svan...@gmail.com

Community Driven Initiative - The Right to Sight - A Plan for 2016 - Update
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We have published the below in our bulletin dated 28 May 2015. Some updates:
a) Glad to announce around RM12,000 worth of pledges have been obtained. This is sufficient to support 160 pairs of spectacles for poor Tamil school students! Thank you very much to those whom came forward to assist. If you are interested to help you may join us by sponsoring the spectacles. It is estimated to cost RM75 per pair. There is plenty of room for all to be involved. 
b) Currently we are trying to get in touch with The Tun Hussein Onn National Eye Hospital (THONEH) to work together with us for Selangor. Learnt the CEO whom have worked with us in 2014 no longer heading THONEH. 
c) We are in discussion with a couple of NGOs that came forward with the intention to assist the program. They are most welcome. Will inform as when as we finalize the discussion.
d) Do inform me if you know any goverment institution or non profit organization or a group of voluntary medical experts able to work together with us to do the eye examination in the under-enrolled Tamil Schools in states outside Selangor. In 2014, we worked with private optometrists for states outside Selangor as we were not aware of any goverment institution who able to help us. The statistics for 2014 is provided as below. We like to compare if the percentage of students who received the spectacles in 2014 is indeed the same in 2016. 

Total Spectacles Prescribed/Total Students Screened
Selangor -- 49/533 (9.2%), Partner: Tun Hussein Onn Eye Hospital (THONEH) 
Kedah --  146/679 (21.5%), Partners: Bee Kong Optical, Buntar Optical, Pelangi Optical and Eyedea Optometry
Penang  -- 176/1006 (17.5%), Partner: London Eye Optometry, Eagle Eye, and Hong Kong Eye

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When I came back to Malaysia on last December 2015, we held several meetings with the members of myMIBB in Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Negeri Sembilan. In the meetings several activities were proposed and one of them was The Right to Sight - An Eye Examination Program for Under-enrolled Tamil School Students. It was suggested for the program to be done again for year 2016 due i) to the academic improvements it brought to the students whom received the spectacles in year 2014, ii) students who received the spectacles in 2014 would require a recheck to ensure if the lens power need to be re-adjusted, iii) two new batch of students would need to be screened in each of the school particated in 2014. 

Let's start our activity in myMIBB for this year by organizing this pertinent project - The Right to Sight.

We will start with Selangor first and expand to other states as when as our resources permits. You may join us to sponsor a pair of spectacles to the poor students. Each spectacles is estimated to cost RM75. If you are interested to sponsor do email me at svan...@gmail.com

Background
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In 2014, myMIBB members took the lead to organize “The Right to Sight – An Eye Examination Program for Under-enrolled Tamil School Students” as a community driven initiative partnering with various organizations such as The Tun Hussein Onn National Eye Hospital (THONEH) and APEX Club of Kuala Lumpur. myMIBB members with their family and friends planned, raised funds and executed the whole program as a unit of community. The mailing list was merely a facilitator encouraging active citizenship among the members. The Right of Sight was a successful program where it managed to screen 2218 poor Tamil School students and assisted 371 of them from 45 under-enrolled Tamil schools (consisting <100 students) from Selangor, Penang and Kedah to obtain spectacles. Several students whom were suspected having pathological eye problems due to glaucoma, cataract and etc. were referred for further treatment.

Photos:

Plan for 2016
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Our above data raises a pertinent point --- More than 16% of students (371/2218) from the participating Tamil schools would have had vision problem without our intervention. This is worrisome as studies worldwide have pointed that the vision and the academic performance of students are inter-related. 


Thus it is important to ensure all students have good vision in order for them to excel well academically. A comprehensive eye examination program is needed for all Tamil School students, especially when we don’t have a national eye examination program in schools as we have the national dental program.

Due to the need, we plan to organize “The Right to Sight – An Eye Examination Program for Under-enrolled Tamil School Students” again for 2016. As our aim is for the community to sponsor spectacles only for the needy, often students in under-enrolled school come from financially strained family. Thus, as rule of thumb, any students prescribed to wear spectacles from these schools would be sponsored one pair of spectacles for free, contributed by the community. There are possibilities some of the target schools had already done an eye examination program organized by other good hearted organization, in such cases these schools will not be included in our list so we need not reinvent the wheel and can focus our resources holistically in schools that had not been covered. 

Objectives
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-To do eye examination for all students from Tamil School that has <100 students at their school’s premise.
-To assist poor Tamil School students 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 assisting the less fortunate.

Target Group: Under-enrolled Tamil Schools that has <100 students in the participating states.

Target States:  Selangor (and other states depending on the resource availability)

Potential Partner: The Tun Hussein Onn National Eye Hospital (THONEH), Apex Club of Kuala Lumpur, Subspecialist Eye Associates

Eye Examination: To be done at the school premise and the type of tests will be decided by the participating certified optometrist. 

Estimated Cost:  Average RM75 per spectacles

List of Under-enrolled Schools in Selangor
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SJK(T) Ladang Brafferton 
SJK(T) Pulau Carey Selatan 
SJK(T) Pulau Carey Timur 
SJK(T) Ladang Braunston 
SJK(T) Ladang Bukit Ijok 
SJK(T) Ladang Hopeful 
SJK(T) Ladang Kampung Baru 
SJK(T) Bukit Rotan Baru 
SJK(T) Ladang Sungai Rambai 
SJK(T) Ladang Tuan Mee 
SJK(T) Ladang Dominion 
SJK(T) Ladang Lima Belas 
SJK(T) Ladang Minyak 
SJK(T) Ladang Mary 
SJK(T) Ladang Sungai Bernam 
SJK(T) Ladang Bute 
SJK(T) Jalan Tepi Sungai 
SJK(T) Sungai Sedu 
SJK(T) Pulau Carey Barat 
SJK(T) Ladang Coalfields 
SJK(T) Ghandiji 
SJK(T) Ladang Sungai Terap 
SJK(T) Ladang Kuala Selangor 
SJK(T) Ladang Raja Musa 
SJK(T) Ladang Riverside 
SJK(T) Ladang Selangor River 
SJK(T) Ladang Sungai Buloh 
SJK(T) Ladang Changkat Asa 
SJK(T) Ladang Escot 
SJK(T) Ladang Kerling
SJK(T) Ladang Nigel Gardner 
SJK(T) Ladang Sungai Tinggi 
SJK(T) Ladang Glenmarie 
SJK(T) Ladang Seafield 
SJK(T) Ladang Ampar Tenang 
SJK(T) Ladang West Country Barat

Do inform if you happen to know any of the above listed schools had done an eye examination program for 2016 organized other noble organizations.
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Ok that's all from me.

Let's Shine.

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Saravanan Kandasamy
myMIBB
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