“我都会买鱼、鸡和猪肉,还有药材给姐姐进补,不然姐姐的健康会越来越差。” ——— 收益者(林婆婆)的妹妹

75-year-old women, with hearing, heart and knee problems, and fragile bones, is only supported by RM300 from government aid to buy medicine. They are afraid that her body is getting really weak when they could not afford to buy some chicken or meat for her sister to enhance her body protein. She is very grateful to say that Great Heart Charity is helping her to buy fish, chicken, pork and herbs in order to enhance the physical health of Kim Eng. Great Heart Charity will be helping Lim Kim Eng’s for RM300 monthly on healthy food for one year.

巴生中华独中 Chong Hwa High School

To cultivate a caring society, charity should be considered as a form of education. The implementation of charity cultures into schools serves to act as a kick start for students to organize community projects voluntarily while enhancing their self-development. Recently, Great Heart Charity has organized a charity seminar talk in Chong Hwa high school with the participation of 54 students representing from 33 different societies and clubs.

一个单亲妈妈,心脏衰弱而植入人工電池才保持跳动。

Yap Lay Hua is a single mother who undergo heart operation few years ago due to heart failure. Her husband passed away few years ago, it makes her family lost the financial support, she is too weak to work while her kids are still studying in schools and college, therefore the burden of support the family dropped to the shoulder of her eldest son who only earned Rm800 salary monthly by working as computer salesman.

十七岁的坚强和独立

Lim is really an independent girl. Since the ages of 13, she started to work as a waitress in hawker center and bah kut teh restaurant. The reason she needs to work is because she needed to cover her own living expense, and the transportation fee to school.
During the assessment, she insisted she is going to work while studying high school. One of the kind-hearted employer has employed her as an office clerk with the salary of RM800. Another kind-hearted landlord has given her low rental of Rm250 monthly for her room accommodation.
Great Heart Charity will be sponsoring Lim RM250 rental every month and school transportation fee of RM80 that lasted for half year. However, we needed more helping hand to help Lim Xin Ying until she graduated her high school in 2 years’ time.

“ 当我老了,心酸谁知道…..”

Tan Hock Chuan used to be working as a welder in iron factory with his Rm2000 salary. However, when he gets older, he started to lose his strength and then unable to work there anymore. He has been unemployed for few months due to his weak physical condition. Fortunately in March, he get a new job as a security guard in Econmart with Rm1000 salary. Great Heart Charity has helped Tan’s family in her rental debt (Rm1250) and groceries for them in March so their kids aren’t starving, and Rm250 rental support for April and May 2017 As a token of appreciation, Mei Fong helped us to clean the Great Heart community centre. However, they still needed at least Rm250 rental support every month because their living expense is huge with 3 kids.

“执子之手,与子偕老,再苦再穷,有家就好”

Lau Chai Fook, 72 year old. He was married with no children and he lives together with his wife. Due to the citizen registration problem in the 60’s, his red identity card makes him could not apply the benefits for Jabatan Kebajikan Malaysia and he needs to pay for huge medical costs even if admitted into government hospital. Therefore, he just use the medicine temporarily to control his heart ailment.Lao Chai Fook’s foot is not in a good condition and needed to rely on stick for walking. His wife has eyes problem and unable to work as well. They only can rely on their brothers and sisters for the groceries help.Great Heart Charity has been funded 6 months rental fee for Lau Chai Fook and it will be stopping soon.

“离乡背井的难民,心酸令人不胜唏嘘…..”

Mr. Jawed Gul Ahmad families are the refugees that comes to Malaysia for peace and safety. They are forced to leave their home and work in Malaysia, he and his brother-in-law needed to suport his whole family by working as the part-time waiter in the restaurant with the salary of Rm2000 combined. Great Heart Charity will be helping Jawed family of grocery support of Rm300 monthly for six month. However, they hoped the more people can donate to Great Heart in order to support them for longer period so the children will never starve again.

“收入微薄的年迈割胶工人,庞大医疗费成噩梦 ”

62-years-old Yellaiah was a rubber worker with 23 years of experience before he suffered from kidney failure and become unemployed. His utilized his EPF completely at the age of 55 for his house and kidney dialysis payment. Unfortunately, his right eye has become impaired since 1984, and his left eye even began to have blurred vision since 2 months ago and he is anxious about this. Great Heart Charity will be helping Yellaiah for six months in the dialysis aid of Rm720. However, they still needed more support from the public as their dialysis expense of Rm2000 above monthly has suffocating them tremendously.

“再穷不能穷教育, 再苦不能苦孩子!”

As a house wife, 42-years old Gan Poh Hong took up the responsibilities to take care of her sick mother, and six young kids of her own. Although she holds no responsibility to an abandoned infant, she cannot help but to adopt this precious life into her family too. This family of ten is sustaining their life with monthly income of RM3000 from her husband. They often satisfy their hunger with merely instant noodles so that they could save more money for education. To add on to her pitiful situation, one of her children, Joe Ze, was identified with learning disabilities and she couldn’t attend usual classes in school. Great Heart Charity Association decided to help by providing RM300 tuition fees for Joe Ze’s special education for 6 months. Besides, a Good Samaritan willing to privately assist them in food for 6 months. However, putting aside the education fees and meals, Gan is also struggling to pay for medical fees for her mother and other family expenses.