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$ AMOUNT ORGANIZATION AREA SERVED PURPOSE
$4,545 East Malaysia
$3,000 The Borneo Project Sarawak
$1,300
$1,000 Sabah Purchased computers for rural schools.
$500 Assist with the purchase of equipment.
$500 World Wise Schools USA
$305 Sending Aloha Abroad USA
$300 USA
$278 Assist with palliative care training.
$250 Heritage Foundation
$250 Doctors Without Borders Haiti Assist with earthquake relief efforts.
$250 The Borneo Project East Malaysia
$250 The Borneo Project Sarawak
Breast Cancer Welfare Assoc.
of Malaysia
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
Purchase small hydroelectric generators for
a longhouse.
National Cancer Society,
Malaysia
West Malaysia
Provided free breast screening procedures
to 29 low income women and assist with
the organization's operational costs.
Kadazan schools
Haemodialysis Assoc. of Klang
Klang,
Selangor
Assist with a program to provide to
American schoolchildren an understanding
of the world's cultures.
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.
National Peace Corps
Association
Assist with the upgrade of NPCA
membership software to help recruit more
members.
Hospis Malaysia Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur
Assist with the building of an example of a
headman's house at the Cultural Center.
Assist with the cost of providing legal aid to
East Malaysia's Indigenous population.
$150 Sabah
NON-CASH CONTRIBUTIONS
USA
USA
Purchased children's books written in the
Penang language to help keep that cultural
basis alive.
Humana Child Aid Society,
Sabah
Assist with the operational cost of a school
for the children of Indonesian
guestworkers.
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.
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.