Partnering KKCH medical social work dept to make the world a better place to live in

Dear friends,

I have been so busy lately that I haven't been able to say our thank-yous fast enough to all our friends in project kyrie who have been doing wonderful things with us.


Today, I would like to dedicate this page to friends who have been helping the needy and sick children in Singapore. We have worked together many times with KK children's hospital medical social work dept through the year without mentioning even once to friends who follow this blog.


We would like to take this opportunity to thank Chia Yi, Joy, Peter Twang and Budi Soehardi for fulfilling a child's last wish to have an expensive game set.


This child could not have her wish fulfilled by the make-a-wish foundation because she fell out of the qualifying age group. When the medical social workers from KKCH came to us with this request, friends of project kyrie supported this cause quickly without hesitation and a child had her last wish fulfilled. Her illness has since taken her away from us but I am sure we have given her some joy to take with her to heaven.


Thank you also to Agnes Koh for having given her entire hello kitty collection to make many KKCH needy children smile when pain was abound. Thanks also to Betty Ng & friends, Chooi Peng and many more who gave baby clothes and baby cots when help in getting these items were requested .


Most recent was the love extended by Peter Twang, Jerry Yong and Linda for supporting without hesitation the funds and gifts needed for a last minute children's party for needy sick children at KKCH. Becuse of your kindness, they enjoyed party food, balloons, games and beautiful cartoon backpacks to take home with them.

I have probably missed out many others who have given their time and love for the children and families of these children. Do forgive me. I pray that whatever each has done to make even a moment of a sick and needy child's life better in anyway that our Father will bless you all with the same heart of generosity that you have so generously extended to them.


Last but not the least, I am in awe of the love the KKCH medical social workers have for their ill and needy children. They have spared no efforts to make a difference in the lives of the patients they serve.




Together with you, serving the poor,

Mill

Giving Hope and Rebuilding Lives

Dear Frens,

It is with much thanks to everyone for contributing so generously to help Sohpeak from my last email. Your time to tell friends about it, your prayers and the contributions that came in for this project.

The money is now in Cambodia with the Don Bosco sisters and we will be working with sisters there to ensure your contribution is maximised ad spent according to plan. Sisters will as usual acknowledge all monies received as soon as they can.

It is truely with God's grace that we not only managed to help repair Sohpeak's house but also help another family in a similar plight.

This family has 7 children. The mother works as construction worker, the father is sick with a lung problem.
Their house also floods when it rains. They recently borrowed 20$ to buy some sand, just simply sand, because when it rains, the inside of the house becomes completely muddy, just as you would be on a muddy road.

The Don Bosco Sisters have also said that the ground floor is built with red bricks without mortar and it's dark and black because of the smoke and soot form the kitchen. The roof is also leaking badly as it has many holes.

The father though sick, is eager to fix the house himself  if we supply him, the materials. Two weekends ago, our friend Audrey flew to Phom Penh, she visited the house and this is what she assessed:

1. ground floor is covered in sand. There is no concrete base under. All the furniture sits on sand.
2. Staircase going upstairs is narrow and unsteady.
3. walls dividing the rooms upstairs are breaking/ rotting away
4. exterior wooden walls of the upper house are very old. Possibly from 15 yrs ago when the house was first built.
5. furniture is old and rundown; the upper rooms have no furniture - clothes are hanged on a rope or pole; bedding is worn out.

Thank you to all for blessing these families with a warm and dry home to live in.

May the generosity of all who contributed to this project in any way be filled with the Lord's Spirit and may your hearts be filled with the same warmth of love from God as you have so kindly extended to our poorer brothers and sisters in Christ.

God Bless,
Mill

Love thy neighbour as you love yourself!

Dear Frens,

We have an opportunity today to help a needy Cambodian student called Sopeak from Don Bosco, to help re-build her house which is falling apart. The minimum amount required is about USD$500 as the other half has been sponsored by another friend.

Sopheak was a student in the Food & Home Management class at Don Bosco.

By God's grace, she has chosen to be a nun & is now a formande. Her father met with 3 accidents in a year (2006 or 07) andnow now he's got TB.

Sopheak's house is  3h30' by car. Their house need to be repaired and partially rebuilt. It's now partly made of bricks to prevent the rain from ruining the wood wall. Their house is 13mx5m=65m2. For the labor of the cement work it's about $200 ($3 per square meter). Then there is the cost of the new materials, the carpentery work and the removal of the old house. Her father can't help much as he is very sick now.

Their own savings can be used to fill up their compound with red soil to raise the level of the ground by 50cm which helps to prevent the flood during this raining season.

Frens, if you feel called to help this family, to help them rebuild their house, give them hope, help them a little with their dad's medical expenses, do let me know. I will consolidate all our funds and work with the Don Bosco sisters to ensure that the money is used for the said purpose.

Let's free Sopeak's mind from worries of her family so she can focus on the committing her life to the Gloryof God! \o/\o/\o/

Yours In Christ,
Mill

ps - If we raise more than what is needed for the house we will help the dad with cost of some medicine and food for the young kids and perhaps help another family who is living in the same situation and need basic shelter.




'Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul.'
Only kindness can do that.
- Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Partnering ONE Singapore to take a step closer to eradicating poverty!

Thank you, ONE Singapore for your dedication to raising public awareness and striving to make poverty history!


Our heartfelt thanks to One Singapore's dedicated team for organising this charity warehouse sale in collaboration with food distributor, FoodXervices where Project Kyrie's poor families have received with gratitude much needed food packages for the month.


Frens of project kyrie, do support ONE Singapore in all their events and efforts to make a STOP to poverty. Their next food drive is on 16th October 2010, so keep that date on your radar and participate in the warehouse sales that they will be organising again.


Together we all CAN make a difference!


Thanks again Vernetta, Michael, Judy and all at ONE Singapore on behalf of the poor!

Partnering Nanyang Primary School to reach out to the poor

Dear Frens,

I have stayed beside Nanyang Primary School for years. The school is truely a gem in our society. I would be so proud to enrol my children there and would not hesitate to recommend this school to any of my friends.

Every Chinese New Year, the children would go house to house to give their neighbours hearty Chinese New Year well wishes. This little act of awareness by the school and teachers have brought so much joy to the neighbourhood especially to our family as Chinese New Year would not seem like Chinese New Year if we do not see the ernest little faces coming by, to wish us a wonderful and properous Chinese New Year! In fact, my mum have also taken to preparing little goodie bags of sweets and cookies for our little guests every year.

It is not surprising then when one of the parents introduced Project Kyrie to the school outreach team, we hit it off immediately, finding ways to help the needy around us.

In the past year, we have assisted 80 Nanyang Primary School teachers to spend a day, twice a year, befriending and giving tuition to the needy children in the community.

This Chinese New Year that just passed, the teachers and children have taken a step further and collected thousands of canned food and rice for the poor.

With this we managed to provide food rations to poor families supported by Project Kyrie for 6 months. Rations have also been distributed to families in Queenstown supported by Beyond Services and families in Toa Payoh supported by HSR.

This act of kindness and effort of the children have given hope and joy to many struggling families. We are very thankful to the children for having learnt the virtue of sharing and helping others at such a young age, to their parents for encouraging the children and to the teachers and principal of Nanyang Primary for their continuous effort in moulding the children to become good and caring leaders in our society.

Much thanks also go to - Nanyang Plastics for sponsoring the hundreds of plastic bags used in distributing the food rations to the poor. To Laura and Ynez for spending an afternoon helping us to pack and sort the food rations. To Yvonne Goh for assisting in transporting the food rations to our storage. Thank you to many others not mentioned but you know who you are for making this project successful and possible! \o/\o/\o/
God Bless,
Mill

An Ultrasound Probe for the Canossian Medical Centre in Ukraine

"Dearest millicent,
Thank you for the great help your friends gave to get the ultrasound probe. The cost of the probe was 45000.00 hyrivna that was 3930.00 euro with the exchange value at that time.From M. Natalina we received 3472.00 euro. So all the money you sent was spent for it. Thankyou. Here Iam enclosing the photo . Once more thankyou to you and to your friend Joseph. We remember you all in our prayers. "

With Gratitude,
SR. Elizabeth N.

Dear Frens,

I wish to thank Joseph Tan & his friends - Albert Foo, Soong Hee Sang, Adeline Koh, Francis Chan and Janice Koh, Liana and Joseph Santoso, Tan Chek Khiaw and Augustine Tan for raising the funds and buy this ultrasound probe for use to help the needy with medical equipment in Ukraine.

Young children in Ukraine lose their mothers to minor illnesses that can be prevented from escalating into fatalities. Friends, the effort and resources you have generously put out, will save more lives than you will ever know!

It is wonderful for me to see friends of Project Kyrie going into action. Friends like Joseph being called to help the needy in Ukraine by using his own network of friends to reach out to the poor as far as Ukraine. This is indeed the essence of Project Kyrie's outreach.

I hope more friends who want to continue supporting this clinic for the poor in Ukraine, will continue to come forward to pledge their resources. Every year there are costs to be maintained for licenses, doctor and medical technician salaries, medicines etc.

It doesn't matter where we help as long as the help goes to people who need us. We are all indeed blessed if we are in the position to give that help, don't you think?

All Glory to God, our Father, as we remain, his instruments of love \O/\O/\O/