{"id":6647,"date":"2010-06-29T23:23:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T15:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=6647"},"modified":"2010-06-29T23:23:47","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T15:23:47","slug":"sinthamani-ashramam-to-be-demolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2010\/06\/29\/sinthamani-ashramam-to-be-demolished\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinthamani Ashramam to be demolished?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was surprised to read this letter<\/strong><\/a> from HRP to PM Najib (who else?):<\/p>\n

Extract from the letter:<\/p>\n

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We have been instructed to write on behalf of the Sintamany Orphanage, Jinjang Kuala Lumpur who has been served with a notice to demolish this seven year old Sintamany orphanage and the adjoining Hindu temple.<\/p>\n

This home was founded by a 26 year old youth Praveendran a\/l Balasamy who was moved to do so when he found a 13 year old Indian boy loitering by a rubbish dumpsite.<\/p>\n

Today this home has 65 children with the youngest being an eight month old baby, thirty-five of these children are in primary school, 5 in secondary school, 2 old folks, three single parents and the rest being baby sitted at the home. This Sintamany home is also an orphanage to the abandoned, distressed, single mothers elderly and sickly Indians who have no where else to go.<\/p>\n

This home is currently occupying an almost one acre unused land in Jinjang Utara belonging to the UMNO led Government of Malay-sia.<\/p>\n

Last month some 50 UMNO policemen and welfare officers stormed this home bullied and harassed the occupants there to move out. Two children aged three and five become ill and were hospitalized as a result of this.<\/p>\n

Other children sent to the government welfare homes are being forcibly converted to Islam like in the latest cases of Darshini and Banggarama (The Sun 25\/11\/2009 at page 4) .<\/p>\n

Many of these orphans have been denied even their rightful birth certificates and this home is applying for the same for them.<\/p>\n

It is the duty and responsibility of any government in any part of the world to take care of or orphans and One Malay-sia seems to be the exception in so far as the poor ethnic minority Malaysian Indians are concerned.<\/p>\n

This home has never been assisted with a single cent or even a single cup of rice by the UMNO led Malay-sian government despite the RM 850 Million 2010 national budget as social safety net for the poor, disabled and senior citizens (News Straits Time 18\/10\/2009 at page 23). The pre existing poor local working class Rumah Panjang Indian community and other well wishers help maintain this orphanage. Why should the pre existing poor help this orphanage out financially when it is the duty and responsibility of the government.<\/p>\n

This is a Tamil saying Mr . Prime Minister that if one cannot help the least one could do is not to do damage.<\/p>\n

So please do not damage and demolish this Sintamany Orphanage on 30\/06\/2010 at 9.00 a.m.<\/p>\n

Instead we urge your goodselves as not only the Chairman of the Cabinet Committee on the Indians but also the Prime Minister for all Malaysians not including and segregating the Malaysian Indians to grant this home RM 200, 000.00 per annum and also the land this orphanage is\u00a0 sitting on to be alienated to this orphanage in order for the poor, powerless and politically voiceless up to sixth generation Malaysian born Indians a shelter and a roof they need over their heads.<\/p>\n

IF we remember food, shelter and clothing are the basic necessities in the life of a any human being and is about the most basic economic theory.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I remember reading that the home was indeed on public land, but all this while there was no interference or indication of the land going to be used for other purposes. I think its only wise to relocate the home to another location. It will look very very bad on government, DBKL, FT Minister Nong Chik, FT Deputy Minister Saravanan, PM Najib, and 1Malaysia concept if such noble efforts are just brushed aside in the name of development or progress. It may well drag down the Indian community support (82% in mid May according to Merdeka Center) towards PM and 1Malaysia when news goes around that government is going around demolishing ashramam nowadays.<\/p>\n

The ashramam has been benefactor of few charity drives. Even announced in THR Raaga, appeared in Star news paper, and got donations from big companies.<\/p>\n

Oh, they are on Facebook<\/strong><\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

I guess it will need intervention of MIC folks since the authorities won’t be listening to HRP any time soon (what a shame though).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was surprised to read this letter from HRP to PM Najib (who else?): Extract from the letter: We have been instructed to write on behalf of the Sintamany Orphanage, Jinjang Kuala Lumpur who has been served with a notice to demolish this seven year old Sintamany orphanage and the adjoining Hindu temple. This home […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[21,230,278,27],"class_list":["post-6647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","tag-hindraf","tag-kl","tag-ngo","tag-protest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6648,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647\/revisions\/6648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}