Sharing what we have this Christmas will give hope to those who need us!

Dear frens,

It’s 4.30am, I woke up reviewing my day yesterday and can’t get back to sleep because I felt so inspired to write to you, to thank you for the years of support for allowing me to successfully bring appeals of humanitarian aid right into your offices, your homes, amidst your busy schedules and on your weekends.

Yesterday, when the opportunity presented itself, I tried a new way of raising funds for the poor. Many were involved. I spent an entire day doing up a slideshow which I think nobody really looked at. We also made exhibition boards the day before, laminated them plus a host of other logistic arrangements like getting permissions from organizers to put up a booth to organizing items we could sell to raise these funds for people in Kenya who have almost nothing.

For this, I also had to inconvenience 2 friends to try to find something last minute for me to sell. Believe it or not, one of them, I had to text him at Mt Tabor during his holidays and he had to text his office staff to set it up for us so we could collect it within hours of the same day. Not forgetting another wonderful set of people who had to drop their plans for the day to race across our island to pick up generously donated chocolates within another 2 hours for us to be ready for yesterday’s sale event.

So yesterday, the day started at 6am and ended at 6pm. We made $1,100 selling chocolates 2@$10. It was hard work. Many were happy at $1,100 but I asked myself what can we buy for $1,100?

We could get 50 or 60 mattresses for the homeless and destitute in Kenya and many will be able to close their eyes in a comfortable bed, forget their troubles for awhile whilst they sleep. I know it would be almost heaven for them to have these necessities that we take for granted in our lives. Many of us jump into our thousands of dollar mattresses quite unhappy every night don’t we? I know I have had my share of those nights.

I want to do more for people who live amongst trash. It is impossible for me to understand how that feels like. Just being in our HDB rubbish shack the other day for a few minutes, I was going to puke needless to say I would surely die if I had to live in one with no hope of escaping from it.. I have to do more for them and I know, we as a whole can do more.

I was thinking of all this now at 4.30am and it dawned upon me what a great gift God has given me…He has made way for his Holy Spirit to constantly work beside me –He gently inspires me to help the poor, He inspires my pen to write and His gift of a group of like-minded friends like you whom I can write to share my passion in helping those who have very little.

I have not done an overseas project for at least a year now, largely concentrating on the poor in Singapore.

So now friends, for this Christmas I bring before you the poor in Kenya, Africa.

For many years, I have seen and heard of the extreme poverty in Africa but it seems so far away and it was not within my reach to help the sick, the hungry, the child and the homeless.

I now know of a trusted catholic priest on the ground that I can work our projects with, to help these poverty stricken brothers and sisters of ours.

So friends would you like to join me to make this Christmas really count for something in the lives of another?

To give a homeless person perhaps a shelter over his head, a hot meal to a child or simple soap to be clean and smelling fresh this Christmas?

If funds allow we can also work towards education of children in poverty and creating lifeline opportunities for work for women with HIV, rejected by their families.

Many of us through the year have made great mental and physical sacrifices to be at the jobs we dislike and even if we love our jobs we have had to sacrifice precious time we would have had with our kids, our wives, our husbands, our parents, our friends to make money so our love ones can have a better life.

Would you like to make all these Sacrifices count for something?

We can make a real difference if together we can build a school or even repair one.

I am envisioning a fund of $10,000 to $20,000 to help the African homeless, destitute, street kids, HIV adults and children build better lives through us in year 2010.

If you feel called to join me in this project, do email me or text me. We are working with Father Conor Donnelly, an Opus Dei priest on the ground in Kenya.

I can as usual consolidate and send our funds to him. If your contribution is large and you would like to send it directly to him that is also ok. I will undertake to ensure that we do the extra mile with these funds sent over. Acknowledgement receipts from Fr. Conor Donnelly for your contributions can arranged if required.

Here's wishing everyone, Merry Christmas and may blessings of the holiday season be upon you.
May the Lord always bless you bountifully for what you are to others in ways big or small.

God Bless,
mill

A blessed year of love and sharing

Dear Frens,

The year 2009 is almost coming to an end. As I look back and review the year that has so quickly gone by, I am filled with awe that we have managed to do quite abit over the year through our Lord's Providence.

We have much to be proud about as friends of Project Kyrie have chosen to do good for the less fortunate brothers and sisters, bit by bit, person by person, project after project throughout the year.


Standing together in our belief that we can make a good difference by doing what we can, when we can, we have dear friends, fed many people through the year and have also given yet others hope and support by being there with our resources, our contacts, our recycled furniture, appliances and most of all our precious time.





I have stopped working for over a year now, anticipating that I would be bored to wits end and return to the workforce to occupy my time but I find myself as busy as ever.

Although, co-ordinating distribution of food, goods and assistance for the poor doesn't pay in money but I find my life now blessed and filled with the riches of knowing so many wonderful people with pure hearts of gold.

For the year gone by, we wish to thank businesses like Woh Hup, Angliss, Nanric, The Garden Slugs, Delhi Restaurant, CreativeEateries, Hup Lee Fried Bee Hoon, Ivisual, Salvation Army, Melwani, Gap International, Bike Haus, One Singapore an many others who have partnered us and given their generous support to help the poor.










Kyrie Kitchen has also been a success with no little effort to many big hearted donors and individuals who cook, drive and distribute the food to the poor.
Here we wish to thank Grace Seah, Jenny, Mable Yong,Margaret Goh, Celine, Radia, Valerie Yeo, Lucy Teo, Susan Lee, June Chan, Sumi Bharvani, Vandy Kapoor, Shenaz, Stella, Julie, Clifford Tan, Mark Foo & friends, James, Raja, Walter & Manya from UK, Dom, Nick Aw, Shaun Chan, Joseph Tan, Sally Tan, Tara Melwani, Alina Sim, Benson Leaow, William Ngang, Julianna Foo, Debbie See, Joanne Goh, Jacinta Kong, Sammy Lee, Felicia Cheng, Pey Woan, Anthony Wong, Sweet Woon & Kok Hiang, Susanna Kang, Corinne Cheok, Mok Sauk Soo, Iris Lim, Philip Wee, Emily Tan, Stephanie Salay, Dr Priscilla Lee and last but not least Rosalind Tan for heading the cooking team and Paul Raj for his limitless love for the poor in distributing food rations and extending support to individual families who need our help in Singapore.
There are many many others who have done so much for the poor and is not mentioned here. We wish them and their families abundant blessings for Christmas and the year ahead.
Here's Wishing Everyone a Truely Blessed Christmas and a Fantastic New Year!

God Bless,
Mill