single mothers forced to put children in orphanages

July 8th, 2008 by poobalan | View blog reactions Leave a reply »
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More of these cases will come to light soon, not only in Penang but all over the country.  MHS and other organizations will be facing more such requests, and hopefully they will be able to generate more funds. Even the expenses for the family paid for by UMIC has increased quite substantially.

MHS should also provide feedback if they approached the EXCO in charge of welfare and the response. The article states Prof Ramasamy’s reply to MHS’s suggestion to set up ration shops, but no indication if MHS approached him or the media interviewed him separately.

The rising cost of living has forced three single mothers in Penang to find help to place six of their children in orphanages. Last week, the three – two from the island and one from Butterworth – approached the Malaysia Hindu Sangam to find a home for their children.

“Each woman has between three and five children and each is sending two children to an orphanage to lighten her financial burden,” the organisation’s Penang branch Social and Welfare Committee head P. Murugiah told The Star yesterday.  He said one mother was jobless, another was earning RM350 a month doing odd jobs while the third earned RM600 a month as a factory worker.

Murugiah said some heads of hardcore poor families have also approached the association for help to place their parents in old folks home.  “They are having problems providing meals for their parents and taking care of their medical expenses,” he said.

Murugiah said the hardcore poor have been severely affected by the recent hike in fuel and food prices.  Citing examples, he said the price of atta flour has increased from RM1.80 per kilo in December to RM2.80 while cooking oil (2kg bottle) has gone up from RM4.50 to RM6.20.  Murugiah said the price of dhal has increased from RM2.80 to RM4.60 per kilo while a brand of the cheapest milk powder has increased from RM9 in January to RM19.50.

He proposed that the state government open ration shops such as being practised in some countries to lighten the burden of the hardcore poor. “The prices of food items sold in ration shops can be subsidised up to 80% by the government. Penang should set up such outlets in line with the Penang Leads tag,” he said.

Deputy Chief Minister II Dr P. Ramasamy said the state would consider the proposal. “It is a good suggestion but we will have to consider the financial implications.  “The state is already helping hardcore poor families by giving free rice. We are planning to give water rebates to this group and studying other means to help them,” he said.

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8 comments

  1. Renu says:

    Hi,

    I am collecting names of olk folks home and orphanage homes that are not sponsored by the govenment or any private sectors, across Malaysia.

    Please let me know if you do happen to know any or anyone who might have the details.

    Thank you.

    Rgds,
    Renu

  2. LC says:

    Hi there,

    Please let me now how can I help the orphanage? I want to do volunteer work,can be possible?

    Thanks,
    LC

    • poobalan says:

      Which orphanage? the easiest is to find one near your work place or home and check with them what kind of volunteer help they need.

  3. LC says:

    I leave in Tanjung Tokong! bad anyway, thanks for you advise.

    LC

  4. john says:

    MP: HP num edited.
    i ‘m 29s guy foreigner live in tanjung bunga almost 10 years working in malaysia,i know well about malaysian coulture.i mean if somebody can understand me without shy i wanna tke care someone good heart women in this my life.it’s my wish frther more u can contact to me 017*********.atleast i can slove the one problem and i can shere my lack love and life.

    • sally says:

      as you really good in hear and need life partner and you can marry someone in orphanage homes where they need you care will obey you in many way

    • sally says:

      u can marry someone in orphanage home so that you can give them yourcare so thus they look after you more

  5. Crystal Jacquez says:

    San Francisco, CA

    Single Moms On Facebook And MySpace Warned About Pre-Schooler Pix Online —

    “Single mothers who put photos of their pre-school kids on their social networking homepages are creating a happy hunting ground for pedophiles.”

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    “Single mothers almost always do it.” says, Jacquez. “It’s not only incredibly dangerous but worse, most single moms have absolutely no idea that it’s dangerous at all!”

    “Think of it,” continues Jacquez, “if you’re one of the tens of thousands of pedophiles with a taste for really young kids, how do you get to them? Children under five or six are just too young to be online.

    “So what does this most dangerous form of pedophiles do?” asks Jacquez, “He surfs social networking sites looking for the pages of young single mothers.

    Literally, millions of single moms are now on social networks like Facebook and MySpace — and almost all of them proudly show off photos of their kids on their homepages and profiles.

    So if you’re a pedophile stalking preschoolers, half an hour of searching out single mothers on social sites and you’ve got a dozen lush candidates – photos and all – just a few key strokes away”.

    Not only that, but these predators know that these kids are often protected only by lonely, vulnerable women — women who are looking for men who they hope love children. WHAT AN OPPORTUNITY! It’s a pedophile’s dream!

    Read this excerpt from a report in the journal American Psychologist, published by the American Psychological Association, regarding pedophiles stalking pre-schoolers on the internet:

    “Finding prepubescent victims directly (on the Internet) is quite rare; such offenders use the Internet in other ways. Pedophiles typically get access to preschool victims through online contact with parents”

    “If you have pictures of your child on line,” says Jacquez, “don’t be too surprised to get a message like the following from some nice sounding guy”:

    “Hey! I just saw your profile on Facebook and you are one great looking lady — and that little girl of yours is just marvelous looking! She looks so bright etc. etc. etc!”

    “You’re going to have a new best friend very soon,” she says. “Count on it!”

    Who hasn’t heard of Lolita, one of the most famous books in America, in which the pedophile gets access to the prepubescent daughter by courting her divorced mother. You can still see the movie on cable TV with James Mason and Shelley Winters as the grown-ups and Sue Lyon as Lolita.?

    Jacquez also cites the following statistic from: Offender Characteristics, U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics re. Victim-offender relationships in sexual assault regarding who sexually assaults children under 6 years old.

    Who assaults children under 6 years old:

    Trusted family members: 48.6%
    Strangers: 3.1%
    Trusted family acquaintances: 48.3%

    “If a pedophile targets your child’s photo on your homepage, trust us,” says Jacquez, “they’ll become a ‘trusted family acquaintance’ soon enough.

    “Don’t close down your social network homepages” Jacquez says. “Just get those photos of your kids off them!”

    “One thing more thing,” says Jacquez, “when you meet a new guy online, check him out immediately with us at Guys and Lies.com (www.guysandlies.com). Our site is free and was built in order to empower women to check out the backgrounds of guys that they meet online.

    “First, check our Child Molesters Section where we access the photos and home addresses of over 360,000 registered sex offenders. Then check him out in our Criminal Records Section. Then check to see if he’s using a phony name. After that, check out all his claims about his background. “There is no way,” she says, “that you can be too careful.”

    Guys and Lies also has a special page on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/guysandlies, and on MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/guysandlies.

    Jacquez asks you to please forward this article to single moms you know who have their kid’s photos online..

    Contact:
    Crystal Jacquez, managing editor
    Guys and Lies.com
    415 678-8610
    crystal@guysandlies.com
    http://www.guysandlies.com