$ AMOUNT ORGANIZATION $4,545 Breast Cancer Welfare Assoc. of Malaysia
AREA SERVED East Malaysia
PURPOSE breast cancer awareness • training equipment • paid tuition and travel expenses for two nurses to attend a training seminar • assist with expenses to organize a Pink Charity Run fundraiser
3000 The Borneo Project
Sarawak
Purchase small hydroelectric generators for a longhouse.
1300 National Cancer Society, Malaysia
West Malaysia
Provided free breast screening procedures to 29 low income women and assist with the organization's operational costs.
1000 Kadazan schools
Sabah
Purchased computers for rural schools.
500 Haemodialysis Assoc. of Klang
Klang, Selangor
500 World Wise Schools
USA
Assist with the purchase of equipment. Assist with a program to provide to American schoolchildren an understanding of the world's cultures.
305 Sending Aloha Abroad
USA
Assist in the funding of a documentary film on the preliminary training in Hawaii of Peace Corps Volunteers who went on to serve in Malaysia and other countries.
300 National Peace Corps Association
USA
Assist with the upgrade of NPCA membership software to help recruit more members.
278 Hospis Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur
Assist with palliative care training.
250 Heritage Foundation
Kuala Lumpur
Assist with the building of an example of a headman's house at the Cultural Center.
250 Doctors Without Borders
Haiti
Assist with earthquake relief efforts.
250 The Borneo Project 250 The Borneo Project
East Malaysia Sarawak
Assist with the cost of providing legal aid to East Malaysia's Indigenous population.
150 Humana Child Aid Society, Sabah NON-CASH CONTRIBUTIONS
Sabah
Purchased children's books written in the Penang language to help keep that cultural basis alive. Assist with the operational cost of a school for the children of Indonesian guestworkers.
USA
Co-sponsored a reading program in the US on International Children's Day featuring Malaysian children's folktales. Stories were read by more than 40 Returned Peace Corps Volunteers in more than 30 states reaching 3500 elementary school students. Children learned about Malaysian culture and Peace Corps experiences.
USA
FoM was contacted by a fourth grade teacher in New Hampshire who had a new student from Malaysia. The student spoke very little English so the teacher requested some children's books in the Malaysian language to ease the transition to learning English. FoM members were able to provide several books.