Hubby and I went for the mangrove ride when we had our holiday in Langkawi. At some part of the river, we saw a lot of boats and yachts being parked along the river instead of the proper parking bay. The owners wanted to save on paying for the rental at parking bay, so they parked their boats here. According to our boatman, some of the boats are being left for months, and they looked pretty old.

Actually, I know that these owners still want their boats. But if there is any boat owner who is interested to Donate Boat, they can get in touch with Boatangel which accepts boats and sell them off at ebay. The money collected will be used for creating and distributing Children’s Animation DVDS. If you are interested to take a look at one of the clips, just hop over to www.dopethemovie.org for the preview of an anti drug documentary starred by skateboard legends Jay Adams, Christian Hosoi, Dennis Martinez and Bruce Logan. They are just trying to create the awareness among youth that drug is dangerous and it’s best to stay away from it.

Even if I would like to Donate my Boat, but I don’t have any! I’m not rich enough to have any boats at all!

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I have always known that my kids are lucky. They can have almost everything they want, if we are willing to spoil them. But I make it a point that they will not be too pampered because I don’t want to have some spoiled brats later when they grow up. At the same time, I quit my decision of not sending them to private school so that they can have a better view of what the real world is like, and not just mixing with the more prestigious group of kids.

I would like them to understand that not every child is as lucky as them. Sometimes, when they refuse to finish their meals, I will tell them that in some part of the world, some children are starving for as long as they can remember. Maybe my kids are too young to understand that, but I will continue to educate them like this so that they will learn how to appreciate what they have and feel blessed about it.
I showed the some of the pictures from Feed My Starving Children, and hope that they will understand that the food they are having now is something luxurious to other kids in the world. Feed My Starving Children is a charity organization which has a mission of feeding God’s starving children hungry in body and spirit. They follow Christian values in fund raising, packing and distributing the food to the starving children in more than twenty countries, including Haiti, Jamaica, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Tanzania, Lesotho, Liberia, Ghana, Guatemala, Malawi, Cambodia, East Timor, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, India, and Indonesia. They have a lot of volunteers to help to accomplish their mission, and trying their best in promoting the organization as efficient, cost effective and also compassionate.

I know I will not be able to be part of the volunteering programs. But the least I can do is to help to promote this organization or by donating to the FMSC.

There are a lot of organizations or individuals who are working hard for the charity selflessly, such as Navtej Kohli, an entrepreneur and philanthropist from San Jose, Costa Rica. He is also in charge of the Kohli Foundation, which provides charitable funds for impoverished South American children. So, if you have the money and man power for running a foundation, just follow his footsteps. Then, there will be more less fortunate children in this world who will benefit from all these charity programs.

This post is brought to you by Navtej Kohli.

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I’m putting this post up again! 

Attention Every One!

I would like to promote this Mother’s Day Charity Project for mothers who are taking care of their children in University Hospital where gifts will be given out to them to show our respect and support in their effort of taking care of their children who are hospitalized.

If you have your kids admitted in the hospital before, you will know how these mothers feel and what you can do to put a smile one their faces are very easy! The rules and regulations for participating in this project are:

Just donate some gifts like below:

Mothering Mothers/Belaian Ibu Untuk Ibu

1. List of Gifts

2. Non-perishable food/beverage

3. Toiletries

4. Journal / Diary (better the one without rigid dates daily)

5. Photo album

6. Framed painting /pictures of landscapes, beautiful moments, etc

7. Mini cushions (for hugs)

8. Mini fancy containers / boxes

9. Small elec. appliances

10. Comfy slippers or socks As for others: mini card + dry fragrant flower, scarves, aromatherapy candles, magnetic decorative item and sarong can be put as side gifts if contributors like.

Packaging

1. About normal shoe-box size, as long as it’s not too big or small.
2. Nice paper bags
3. The price per gift should be under RM20

2 years ago, I prepared some skincare and make up products and put them in a box, nicely wrapped it and put a little ribbon on top! We didn’t have this project last year, I really missed it! I’m glad that it’s on again this year, so if you are from Ipoh, and would like to participate, please drop a comment or email me as I offered my house as a drop off place to collect gifts in Ipoh! If you are not from Ipoh, I’ll let you know where’s the drop off points too via comments or email. So, bloggers, let’s show our support to all these great mothers!

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