Two good news from the Star today. As school children are getting ready to go back to school, one group donated school bags and stuff to 1000 students, while another sponsored 40 spectacles for children.
News 1:
ABOUT 1,000 poor pupils received school bags, shoes and stationery at an event orgainsed by the Petaling Jaya Old Town Sun Tau Jing Sheh temple, in partnership with the Yayasan Maha Karuna Educare programme.
“We are giving these items to the children to encourage them to work study harder,” said organising chairman Jacob Chan Teng Meng, during the event at the temple in Jalan 1/15 recently.
Education aid: (Back row from left) Chan, Sun Tau Jing Sheh Abbot Venerable Shi Kai Shan and Saranankara with the children who received the schoolbags.Yayasan Maha Karuna founder Ven B. Sri Saranankara Nayaka Maha Thera said the Educare programme was started in 2001 and they aimed to help about 5,000 children each year.
He added that they helped children irrespective of their race or religion.
“We are not only working with temples but also NGOs.
“Our objective is to encourage the public to start their own initiatives to help the poor in their own community,” he said.
The pupils were from SJK(C) Choong Wen, SJK(C) Yak Chee, SJK(C) Chen Moh PJ, SJK(C) Yuk Kuan, SJK(C) Han Meng, SJK(T) Kinrara, SK(1) Petaling Jaya, SK Petaling Jaya, SR Sathya Sai, SJK(T) Vivekananda and SJK(C) Chung Hwa Damansara.
The children, whose parents were from the low-income group, were recommended by their respective schools.
News 2:
THE SJK (Tamil) Rawang Parents-Teacher Association (PIBG) sponsored spectacles for 40 children with poor eyesight.
Its chairman, C. Pamarasivam, said the children who received the spectacles were from poor families.
“Because it is expensive to buy spectacles, the PIBG allocated RM120 for each pupil.
Part of school programme: A pupil getting his eyes checked.“Many teachers have complained about pupils having poor eyesight. Further checks revealed that some pupils are shortsighted while others are longsighted.
“Some cases are very bad. Many parents just could not afford to buy spectacles for their children and we decided to do so,” said Paramasivam who was present during an eye check-up programme at the school recently.
About 1,600 pupils in the school had a free eye check up.