Dear Generous Donors, Noble Volunteers, Great Friends & Moral Supporters,
Here are the latest updates on Book Haven:-
Over 2009, we've distributed 1,918 children's books (with 300+ books still in my store) to
over 8 Centers.
1) New Life Care Centre Orphanage, Port Dickson
2) Yatim Baitul Izzah, Pinggiran TTDI
3) Zomi Learning Center, KL
4) Zophie Learning Center, KL
5) YKPM, Prima Selayang, KL
6) NCCLA Orphanage, Phnom Penh
7) Shelter Home, Selangor
8) Pekan OA Project, Tanjung Keriung, Pahang
We have a few interesting Projects in the pipeline over the next few months.
Looks like we will not be short of Projects for the next 6 months....just via word of mouth! The Power of Good Deed!
1) NCCLA Orphanage, Phnom Penh: On 21 Sep 2009, BooK Haven delivered 125 children's story books (50 books donated by Book Xcess & 45 books donated by Dram Projects) & 2 sets of Readers Digest's "English in 20 Mins a Day" to NCCLA Orphanage in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2) YKPM: In Jan 2010, we'd be furnishing the YKPM supported Classroom with a mini-Library Prima Selayang with Book Cabinets shelves and a few hundred Books. On 20 Oct,
two units of 4-Door/2-Door Book Cabinets, donated by Lee Kim Seng, were delivered.
On 12 Dec 2009, 230 books collected from the Book Raising Drie on 16 Aug 2009 were delivered. Yayasan Kajian & Pembangunan Masyarakat (YKPM) is a Charitable & Service NGO, based in Prima Selayang, which is helping the urban poor at Prima Selayang & Orang Asli Settlements at Tanjung Keriung, Pekan.
3) Zophie Learning Center: On 21 Oct 2009, two units of 4-Door Bookshelves (Half Glass) for Zophie Leaning Center (Myanmar School) in Pudu. Book Haven donated 213 books - collected from the Book Raising Drive held at Villa Flora, TTDI - to Zophie Learning Center on 16 Aug 2009. The Book Cabinets (RM858) were donated by Mr Lee Kim Seng.
4) Shelter Homes: In Dec 09/Jan 10, we'd collaborate with Shelter Homes to set-up a mini-Library in Shelter Community School 3 (Puchong, behing Tesco). The School has 50+ Myanmar children aged between 7-15.
On 20 Oct 2009, Nelson from Shelter Homes collected 200 books collected form the Book Raising Drive.
5) Pusat Penyayang Tuisyen KSKA: Richard Tan of Lelong.com has agreed to sponsor the Tuition Center with a mini-Library in Kg Sg Kaya Ara (KSKA).
The budget is approx. RM4,000.
Julie & Catherine of SSMC has selected 59 books from Scholastic on 20 Nov 2009. They have also met up with Book Vendor, Roving Books (Anne Ooi) on 14 Dec 2009 and have selected 82 books. Next stop is Book Xcess. We hope to complete this Project by Jan 2010.
6) We are awaiting decisions from the following Organization on collaboration:
- Rotary Club of Kuching Central - sponsor a mini-Library in an Orphanage in Kuching
- Freddy Wong and his 2 children has agreed to donate RM500 towards a mini-Library. The next thing is to identify the Orphanage that fits our criteria so that we can set-up the mini-Library with Books & Shelves.
We have a few US Visitors, Angie Ki, Cathy Spear-Haynes & Christie Coley in early Nov 2009 and they visited Book Haven's mini-Library Projects viz. Zomi School in Kuala Lumpur & New Life Care Center Orphanage in PD on 5 & 6 Nov 2009.
Angie Ki has set up an Organization called Lumina Academy whose missions is to provide the underprivilege children with on-line education. She would be doing fact-findings in East Malaysia and next Jan 2010/Jul 2010, she'd bring a bunch of doctors to help.
And lastly, we'd like to say "Thank You" to the following for their continous support:
- Scholastic (Selina Lee, Esther Lau, Wai Leng) - books donations
- Book Xcess (Andrew & Jacqueline) - book donations
- Dram Projects (Daphne Lee) - books donations, book selections & discussions
- BLESS Community Services (Tania Lee & Michael Quan) - faciltate the setting up mini-Libraries in Zomi & Zophie Learning Centers (Myanmar Schools)
- The BU Ladies FIR Group (Sue Yoong) - facilitate the setting up of mini-Library at the New Life Care Centre, Port Dickson
- Cik Hasma Ismail, a Malaysian, now temporary based in UK who has shipped 110 children's books all the way from Manchester!
- Gina Voon who donated 88 books from her children's collections
- Julia Lim who has agreed to donate the Time-Life Nature & Science Library (47 Volumes) which was donated to New Life Care Centre, Port Dickson.
- Hoe Kai Yong who has donated 18 books from her children's collections.
- Cik Fizzy Moslem, who runs a Book Cafe in Damansara Perdana (Hoxe's Book Cafe) who has not only donated books, she has also offered her Cafe as Venue for Book Haven's Book Collection & Book Raising Campaigns.
- Twenty Twenty Media (Richard Small & Karen Leong) - donations of 17 sets of Reader's Digests "English n 20 Minutes" (each set costs RM299) and numerous past issues of Reader's Digest.
- Jenny Strachan of Lorna Whiston who recommended the type of books needed by Yatim Baitul Izzah which we purchased from Ann Ooi of Roving Books (Thanks, Anne Ooi, for the good discounts!)
- Graphics Vision (Benedict Yee) - logo design & sponsor of plaque printing
