Sunshine Home , Petaling Jaya

The Sunshine Home is located in Jalan Templer, Petaling Jaya, near Assunta Girl's School. The Sunshine Home is an old folks home which true to it's nam, hands the old folks a bit of sunshine in their lives . Their friendly workers try their best to be like sons and daughters to them, feeding them, helping them and spending as much time with them as possible.

The impressive facilities in this home are more than satisfactory, with 19 beds and a choice of either a single room, or a bigger double room. The upstairs living room is also equipped with Astro for those old folks that enjoy catching dramas or the news. Showers with water heaters are also part of this home and all rooms are air conditioned. For their safety, there are bed-side call panels in case of emergencies. Physiotherapy is also provided if needed.

The home itself is a white, two story bungalow with ample lawn space for outdoor activities. The Sunshine Home Petaling Jaya’s goal is to build a lift so that it will be easier for the old folks and they will not need to climb stairs as their branch in Penang already has a lift.

The staff there said that the old folks that stay there normally come to them sad and silent, which is understandable as they probably feel abandoned by their children or because they are lonely and the staff there try to be as much of a family to them as they can. Homes like these that don't give the sense that they are in a special home but instead make the atmosphere cosy and comfortable like a real home by giving these old folks a ray of sunshine in their lives.

The Sunshine Home's full address : 80 Jlm Templer, 46000, Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Contact Numbers :  03-77832196 or 03-7783218

Group members :

Ching Khai Lin

Thashini

Sarah Zahidi

Nadiah Ramli

Shelter:)

Group Members; 

Nurul Neesha

Azraa Ayesha

Siti Syahirah 

Norbalqis

Shelter is a registered welfare organization. It has been in existence since 1981 to help abused, abandoned, neglected or at-risk children. Shelter Home for Children was started by a group of seven friends who wanted to help the children in a squatter settlement along Old Klang Road. The group decided to rent a single storey bungalow in Section 12, Petaling Jaya and decided to bring one of the families from the settlement who had been evicted from their house to stay in the house in Section 12.

Shelter established 10 kindergartens, the first one being in Damansara Dalam (1989). Shelter then, decided to close down the kindergarten after 15 years of operation because they noticed a dramatic drop in the number of students attending their kindergarten. They decided to move into a more dramatic approach in helping disadvantaged children by being a positive influence on teenagers.

Now, they have set-up a youth community centre called Drop Zone. This is place for teenagers to hang out, where the purpose is on the personal development of youths aged 13-20 through healthy and positive activities.

Due to certain conditions, Shelter decided to set up Shelter 2 in 1987, Shelter 3 in 1995, Shelter 4 (1996) and later, Shelter 5 (2001). Each 5 Shelters has their different purposes. Shelter 1 is a home for children from 4 to 12 years of age who has been abused, neglected, at-risk or abandoned by their families, parents or guardians.  Shelter 2 is a home for teenage girls aged from 13 to 18 years. It is located in Kuala Lumpur. Teenage boys aged from 13 to 18 are placed in Shelter 3.

Source; http://www.shelterhome.org/

Sunshine Home PJ

SUNSHINE HOME PJ

This 19 bedded home is located in the heart of Petaling Jaya, it is within walking distance to Assunta Hospital and easy access by private and public transport. This cozy home provides 24 hours quality healthcare for elderly residents with a beautiful garden. Designed to cater for various needs of the residents.the home offers a choice of single or double bedded rooms for those needing nursing care.

Facilities include:

1) Disabled friendly  amenities such as wheelchair

2) Handrails for safety

3) Attached bathrooms

4) Bedside call panels

5) Air-conditioning

Address: 80 Jlm Templer, 46000,Petaling Jaya,Selangor 

Tel: 03-77832196/03-77832198

OrphanCARE

OrphanCARE is a non-profit non-governmental organization whose objective is to give orphans and abandoned babies in Malaysia the love, care and security of a family in line with their tagline ‘Every Child Needs a Family'. Registered on April 28th 2008, OrphanCARE was launched a year later on April 25th, 2009 by its Patron HRH Sultanah Pahang Sultanah Hajjah Kalsom. OrphanCARE aims to help change society's mindset towards orphans, recognizing that children should not be left permanently in orphanages which should really only be 'transit points' before they are placed with families who can bring them up in a proper family structure.

OrphanCARE aims to work with the government to expedite the adoption process whereby abandoned and orphaned babies are placed with suitable parents. They plan to set up a Baby Hatch on OrphanCARE’s premises where mothers must be allowed to leave their babies without fear of prosecution.

OrphanCARE has the support of the Ministry of Women, Family & Community Development and is in fact working closely with the Ministry. The Ministry will shortly establish a Task Force to review and update the Adoption Acts, Registration Act etc and has invited OrphanCARE to be part of the task force. OrphanCARE also intends to work with other Government departments, NGOs, the media and members of the public towards achieving the above-mentioned objectives.

One of their main events were accompaning Jermaine Jackson, the famous pop singer and his wife during his visit to Asrama Damai Anak-Anak Yatim Kuang in Rawang, Selangor. They spent a few hours chatting heartily to the children.

In conclusion, OrphanCARE is not an orphanage but it is a transit centre for orphans and abandoned children before their adoption. They have about 100 volunteers and would like more. Anybody is able to donate. Their headquarters are situated at 6, Lorong SS1/24A, Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan.This is a map to their location - http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=6+lorong+ss+1+%2F+24a&sll=3.104906,101.616669&sspn=0.008613,0.016512&ie=UTF8&ll=3.104746,101.617259&spn=0.008613,0.016512&z=17&iwloc=A You can contact them at contact@orphancare.org.my or visit their website http://www.orphancare.org.my Their contact number is 0378761900, 0378751900 and 0123938337.

Pictures

Baby Hatch.

Jermaine Jackson with his wife.

Group members:
Haezell Alison Claudius.
Leong Pui Ling.
Nicole Cheong.
Samantha Chong Jia Yi.

Golden Age Nursing Home :)

   Golden Age Nursing Home is dedicated to delivering an integrated nursing service by providing cost effective and safe nursing care delivered by nursing professionals. Nursing home is an environment that is a home away from home. This would be a practical solution for people who need short and long term need. By opening this nursing home is to provide a conduave and safe alternative to prolonged hospital stay.

   Golden Age Nursing Home is a high standard of care at affordable cost effective rates.They have good and comfortable facilities such as van as transport to hospital appoiments and a 24 hours ambulance services in case of any emergencies.

   This nursing home is clearly unique by its hospital layout design. There are nurses' stations at each hallway.There are 3 types of rooms which are private rooms, semi-private, and 4 or 5 beds per room. Personal lockers, emergency call bell and telephone also are provided. They also enable placement of a nurse monitoring station outside the room to provide closer monitoring if needed.

   There are 3 categories of services which are basic, complimentary and additional. Basic service requires 24 hour nursing care, health education and monitoring of patients' medical condition. Complimentary service such as haircut, foot massages, yoga and Taichi are done. For additional service, they require special care for patients in coma or stroke and hospital visits. We estimated that mostly Chinese people stays at the nursing home.

Address : No. 83 Jalan SS3/39,
               47300 Petaling Jaya,
               Selangor Darul Ehsan.

 Group members :

Nur Amalina 

Anisa Areej

Zianzalqis

Alyssa

Impressive care home

Impressive Care home

Impressive care home is a home for the elderly. The  home was established for the elderly that needs intensive care. It is located at No14, Jalan Datuk Manteri Selatan,Selangor Darul Ehsan. The person who established the home is Mr.Faizal. He had been in this buisness for about 10 years since the year of 2000.

There are 12 rooms in the house .Each room has different numbers of bed. There are 30 bed there in total. The patients there are helped by 10 employees. Each employee is incharge of a room. They attend to the patient`s every need.

Nurses from University Hospital are employed to take care of the patient`s medications and monitor their blood preasure , sugar level and such. The working schedule depends on their shifts in the hospital. Every two weeks, a doctor comes to do a full medical assessment on the patients.

There are many facilities at the Impressive Care home .Some of them are ambulance aid ,toiletries, and meals every 4 times a day according to the ability of the patient to eat. This home is fully air - conditioned. Here, the patients are given morning excercise like breath walking, and they even play games like Poker and Mah-Jong.

For further information, please contact Mr.Faizal at 012-2337660 or 03-79579008.


Group members : Alina

                           Anusha
                           Fatin Farzana
                           Nurizazi Zanuri,

Rumah Solehah

What is Rumah Solehah?              


          Rumah Solehah is a home that provides shelter and protection for women and children who were both infected or affected by HIV/AIDS who were neglected and homeless. It was established in June 1978 under the auspices of the Ministry of Heats, STD/AIDS Department . The Ministry had assigned an NGO to oversee the home, which is named as the Islamic Medical Association of Malaysia which is also affliated to the Malaysian Aids Council.

          The home is currently run by a women who is Puan Wan who manages the home on a full time basis. Each year, they will send an application to the Ministry for allowence for the home. Unfortunately, according to Puan Wan, the yearly allowence which is about RM 50 000 per year is not enough for the expenses incurred by the residents. To overcome this problem, the whole home would raise funds and to source sponsorship particulary for vitamin supplements and diapers for the children, which can be very expensive.

          A variety of supplements is crucial for the residents to stay healthy. There are 7 women living there, out of which 6 are HIV positive patients. Some are alone and some have children in the home. What is certain is they have been rejected by their own families, regardless of how they were inflicted with the HIV virus in the first place.

          There are 12 children raging from 1-7 years. There are 9 who are confirmed HIV positive, and 3 who are negative. The liveliness of the children belies their background, whereby some of them were abandoned at birth and some whose parents have passed away because of AIDS. The residents of this home are all Muslim.

          A resident of the home has made significant contributions in HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns throughout Malaysia by sharing with the public her struggles and acheivements as a HIV positive patieny. This woman has been with Rumah Solehah for the past 10 years, and now is 49 years old. She is still healthy and very active.

How can we appeal for Contribution to Rumah Solehah?

Address: No. 3 Jalan Makmur 3, Bandar Tun Razak, Cheres.
Contact number: 012-3059967 ( Puan Wan )

                                                      The children at Rumah Solehah.

Group Members:

Sarah Nabihah

Nurul Adlina Syazwani

Nur Farah Dinah

Punietha

Attention : Haezell

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Shelter 3

 Sunshine Shelter :) 
Most of the teenage boys between the ages of 13 and 18 at shelter are among the weakest students in their schools because of their backgrounds of abuse or neglect.
We have full-time staff to run the home on a shift basis to ensure the smooth running of the home. There are a good number of volunteers who help out faithfully on a regular basis. We greatly appreciate and value their time spent with our boys.

It has always been Shelter's hope to have a home of its own. In the past the children had to move from place to place each time the lease on the home expired. Children, especially those from difficult backgrounds, need stability and consistency in their lives. They need to be able to integrate and form good friendships with people in the neighbourhood and in their schools. Thus, Shelter decided to ensure a permanent home by purchasing a property although it would be a financial strain on Shelter.

In 2005, the dream of having our own home materialised and Shelter 3 finally moved to a permanent home in Section 8, Petaling Jaya. At this time we also combined Shelter 5 (teenage boys) and Shelter 3 so that there would be consistency in the way the boys were brought up.

  


History and Development
Shelter, a registered welfare organization, has been in existence since 1981 to help abused, abandoned, neglected or at-risk children.

Shelter Home for Children started as a result of the vision of a group of seven friends who wanted to help the children in a squatter settlement along Old Klang Road. They initiated tuition classes so that the children could do better in their studies.

When the group found three homeless boys sleeping in the corridors of the State Cinema (now Lotus Restaurant, at New Town, Petaling Jaya) the group decided to rent a single storey bungalow in Section 12, Petaling Jaya. "All that we had was an empty house without any furniture. We sat, ate and slept on the floor. But, in the end, the boys stole some money and ran away!" said Mr James Nayagam, Executive Director of Shelter, one of the seven friends who started Shelter.

Not disheartened, the group of friends decided to bring one of the families from the settlement who had been evicted from their house, to stay in the house in Section 12. Most families in the settlement were living on rented premises but found it difficult to pay the rent.

As numbers in the home increased, we moved to our present premises at Jalan Tinggi, Petaling Jaya. Various groups helped by providing tuition and even fostered those in need of foster care placement.

In time, Shelter established 10 kindergartens in squatter settlements with the first one being in Damansara Dalam (1989). A nominal fee of RM5 was charged per student. These kindergartens were an effort in helping children from underprivileged homes to have a good start in life.  Shelter decided to close down the kindergartens after 15 years of operation when we noticed a dramatic drop in the number of children attending our kindergartens - urban affluence had also affected low income families in their perception and preferences for education for their children.

As Shelter evaluated the work, we decided to move into a more proactive approach in helping disadvantaged children by being a positive influence on teenagers.

We have also ventured into community youth work among young prisoners in Kajang Prison. There are about 1,000 delinquents in Kajang Prison and Sg. Buloh Prison. We hope to educate, train and help the juveniles to regain their self-respect and integrity so that they can rejoin society at a later date. This is very gratifying work as it requires discipline, commitment and focus to run the social work programmes.

We have also set-up a youth community centre (DropZone). This is a centre for youths to hang out where the focus is on the personal development of youths through healthy and positive activities. The target group is 13 - 20 years old.

For the homes, we saw the need for helping teenagers who were beyond parental control. This led to the setting up of Shelter 2 (1987), Shelter 3 (1995), Shelter 4 (1996-2007), Home Parenting Scheme - which is now known as Shelter 4 (2007) and Shelter 5 (2001-2006).


Youth Centre (DropZone) 



DropZone is a youth community centre project which aims to develop a membership youth centre, taking after the concept of a second-home, which runs youth related activities in the hope that it becomes a healthy hangout alternative that focuses on the personal development of youth. It seeks to respond to the positive qualities of young people in recognition of their role and contribution to nation building.
It is a drop-in centre to help keep youths from engaging in undesirable activities and to provide self-development opportunities to the underprivileged youths by:

• Providing counselling to troubled youths
   
• Providing wholesome activities (movies, board games)
   
• Developing musical talents (jam sessions with guitars, keyboard and drums)
   
• Providing a positive environment and human mentors/models
   
• Instilling good habits (e.g. making payments for drinks and usage of equipment)
   
• Helping with school work

Group member's
Muna
Sonia
Balqis
Hari Priya

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In addition, if anyone wants to do more editing for the blog, go ahead. No change in marks but just pride in a job well done.