A Piece Of Hope Chapter 3 donation collection begins… Lets Get On It & Go!

With only one half month before we climb Mt. Kinabalu, the journey to the summit have already started for most of us with the launch of our donation collection. The journey this year will be tougher as the bleak ‘economic storm’ affects would-be donors in some way or the other. Nevertheless, our effort has to go on. Needy lives must be touched and hope must be kept alive, more so in this stormy season.

An email detailing how the donation collection is to be done was sent out recently. In it a covering letter from PKIK and donation forms were attached as pictured below. If for any reason some of you did not receive these, please inform Jimmy or myself (apieceofhope@gmail.com) and we will gladly email you again. Just a mentioned, you can be creative in your donation collection such as if you are running a business then profit of a certain period can go to PKIK or if you are employed then when having a game of badminton, every point you win your friend they pay you $xx.xx as donation. Whatever you do its for charity.


We will be calling for a press conference soon to give A Piece Of Hope Chapter 3 some leverage. If any of you climbers got press contacts please do let us know. Pictured below is a sneak preview of the jigsaw puzzle that we will be carrying in July up Mt. Kinabalu.

All the best for your effort!

Our recce visit to Persatuan Kanak-Kanak Istimewa Kajang Selangor (PKIK) on 5th April 2009.

When we think of a NGO children home, we always tend to think that it is an orphanage or a physically handicapped home. This one is different. Generally, PKIK it is not a home but a special learning centre. Located on the fringe of Kajang town centre, this first visit to PKIK for Foo Jong Wee, Engu and myself was an educational tour in itself.

Ms. Kong Lan Lee, director of PKIK, explained and gave us a brief tour of their place. PKIK started in 1995 for children with learning disabilities (such as Down Syndrome, ADD, etc.) and is presently serving 104 of them in 5 shoplots at Taman Kajang Utama. Ms. Kong explained that they have many programmes and services in placed to help these children/persons such as Early Intervention Programme, Day Training Programme, Therapy, Independent Training Group Home and etc.

She said that these children usually do not have the chance to go to normal schools because there is no such curriculum catering to them. Many parents of these children struggle to find a school that can accept them. Many parents too encounter dead ends to find a school that can educate and help their children. PKIK was born to fulfill wishes of parents to see their children become independent, meaningful and useful people to society. These children most of the time are deemed as outcast of society by the general public due to their disabilities. Parents of these children feel disappointed and most fear to bring their children out into the public.

With very little help from the government, PKIK have to turn to regular fund raising projects, donations from families and the public. To sustain the cost of operations which is ever escalating and plans to get a place to call their own, PKIK needs fund to bring them into the brighter future. A Piece Of Hope: Chapter 3 is stepping up once again to help raise fund.

You can visit the home’s website for further information @ http://pkik.my.diip.net/. Alternatively you can contact PKIK Ms. Kong @ 03-87366385.