{"id":5366,"date":"2009-08-12T22:39:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T14:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=5366"},"modified":"2009-08-13T10:08:26","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T02:08:26","slug":"sjkt-lauderdale-gets-new-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2009\/08\/12\/sjkt-lauderdale-gets-new-building\/","title":{"rendered":"SJKT Lauderdale gets new building!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Readers would have remember about SJKT Lauderdale which appeared in this blog<\/a> last April. Today, Dr Sree updated us (via email) on the progress (or should I say success of this project):<\/p>\n

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Ear ly this year in January , The headmaster from the Ladang Lauderdale Tamil school called me requesting for sponsorship for their school annual sports day function . Due to lack of funds they were not able to proceed with their plans to have their sports day .<\/div>\n
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I went to the school to see the condition of the school which appeared to be depressing .<\/div>\n
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The school was build in 1947 . Over the years the number of students increased but the school building remained the same . 64 children were accomondated into this small building by dividing this building into 6 classroom , a computer room and school office . In the summer the whole building felt like sitting in an oven .<\/div>\n
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As most of you know , I brought up this matter in MI Club after my visit . We had several discussions regarding this matter . Many kind members from all over Malaysia , Singapore , Kuwait , Japan and even Germany responded in kindness . Some Sponsored all the new tables and chairs , Some sponsored new cabinets , Some in the form of revision books and also paid the schools fees of several students .<\/div>\n
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We managed to raise some amount of money in order to sponsor the sports day and it was more then enough . Members of MI Club gathered in the school somewhere at the end of march during the school sports day . We handed the money to the headmaster . It was also understood that the school requires extra classrooms to ease the congestion .<\/div>\n
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It was decided that we will proceed to raise funds for building of the classroom .<\/div>\n
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I met the berkat share holder who owns the estate for permission to build extra classrooms on their land . Their responded immediatedly by clearing the land making way for the building . The PPD was also generous by providing extra funds for the building of the classroom .<\/div>\n
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With just sufficient funds and with the moral support from all the MI club members we proceeded to build the classroom which began in early MAY . We were hoping to complete the building by JUNE but due to the weather condition , the work was delayed and eventually work finished at the end of JULY and the children moved to their new classroom in AUGUST .<\/div>\n
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The current classroom was designed with higher ceilling and the roof build in such a way to provide cooling effect to the classroom . Further the floors were layed with marble tiles to add addition cooling effect .<\/div>\n
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When I walked into the room , it felt cool and fresh .<\/div>\n
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The previous building which had 6 classrooms are now spaced out to 3 classrooms . We do hope in future we will be able to build another 3 similar classrooms in order to accomodate more students . The land for another 3 more classrooms has already been allocated to the school .<\/div>\n
Taking such a huge responsibility was a huge task for me . It continously worried me .<\/div>\n
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I would like to thank all my friends especially MI Club moderator Jega and others like Poobalan , Sathia and Shamalan who continously adviced me on the proper procedures and also all the MI CLub members who never failed to give moral support .<\/div>\n
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Thank you dear friends . Without all of you this would not have happen .<\/div>\n
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Dr.SREEDHARAN PHF , MBBS, FAGE<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
This is just one example of how we can get things done provided there’s proper leadership, trust, support and commitment.\u00a0 I have to mentionthat Dr Sree played a major role in this project. Myself , not even 1% of the effort.<\/div>\n
Hopefully we can replicate this model successfully, little by little.<\/div>\n
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