Dear friends,
 
UMIC’s "Back to School" project is back again for the year 2009. This is our 4TH YEAR and we thank the members for the support and understanding. It is beyond dispute that without support from forum members, and caring community, we could have not envisioned the success of this program thus far. Early this year we successfully concluded the
project, whereby we sponsored 92 students (a big jump from 59 in 2007) from SJKT Bkt Darah, SJKT Ldg Sg Buloh, SJKT Ldg Bradwall, and also the children of our single mothers program, who had difficulties in meeting the school expenses due to their unfortunate poor conditions. Photos of previous Back To School events can be found at http://picasaweb.google.com/umic.photos/BackToSchool2008SJKTBukitDarah and http://umic.shutterfly.com.  Beyond just providing uniforms and school bags, we also helped to cover expenses for extra classes and school activities at both these schools.
 
For the record, below is the number of recipients since the ineption of Back To School program:
2008: 92 students from SJKT Bkt Darah, SJKT Ldg Sg
Buloh, and SJKT Ldg Bradwall
2007: 59 students from SJKT Bkt Darah and SJKT Ldg Sungai Buloh
2006: 35 students from SJKT Bkt Darah.
 
Due to the support by the public via UMIC, the teachers, and also the effort by students and parents, we are able to announce SJKT Ldg Sungai Buloh’s passing increased from 11.7% in 2007 to 50% in 2008, but unfortunately no repeat of the 7As students. For SJKT Bukit Darah, the overall passing rate increased from 44.1% to 60%.
Slowly, we can see the students results improving due to the commitment of the teachers and school, added with financial support from the community.

In the near future, our target is to achieve 100% passing rate. Again, all this is only possible due to the overwhelming, continuous support and commitment shown by people from all walks of life, who contribute through us. The funds were used to cover the lunch expenses during weekend classes, purchase of study materials, payment of fees for student participation in events, etc.
 

Over the last 2 years, we have increasingly helped more students, and the trend continues this year. This year, we have identified about 56 poor students from SJKT Bukit Darah in Sg Buloh  and SJKT Ladang Sg Buloh in Bkt Rotan These students are facing difficulties to step foot into school again due to their unfortunate family backgrounds of single mothers, labourers, phyisically/mentally disabled parents, medically affected parents, etc.

The parents can’t afford to provide these young souls the education and the study materials which will provide them a better future and to contribute to the community growth. This project is in line with our focus and objective to assist poor students to continue to excel their education and to kill off the young age school dropout rates.
 
The breakdown and total cost are as below:
1. SJKT Bkt. Darah, Sg Buloh – 27
2. SJKT Ladang Sg Buloh, Bkt Rotan – 29
3. SJKT Ldg Bradwall, Siliau – Not received names yet.
Total – 56 students (Expected to increase)
Estimated total expenses – RM 9,040 (minimum)
 
The amount may look big, but when our community puts its mind to it, we can achieve the target. Imagine that we received a total of RM11,400 in 2008! Once again, this is a mere inkling of the capability, support, and community-consciousness of the readers.

 
The students list is will be update by early next week on our website at  www.umic.org.my. Those without access to website may request the list from the contact persons below. Similar to last year, interested donors can adopt one or more students from the student list which has been published by UMIC Charity Wing . The approximate cost per student based on age will be as below:
1. Std 1 – RM140
2. Std 2 – RM140
3. Std 3 – RM160
4. Std 4 – RM160
5. Std 5 – RM180
6. Std 6 – RM180
7. Secondary – RM200

The cost per student above includes the basic needs (2 pairs of uniform, school bag, 2 pairs of shoes, 3 pairs of socks, shoe polish, water bottle, exercise books, & stationeries) AND also to cover for motivation seminar, education seminar, extra classes, and purchase of workbooks. We invite interested donors to contact the following committee members below for more info and pledge:
 
 
Koppal 019-2796669 / koppalai@epsontoyocom.com
Poobalan 019-2664042 / mpoobalan@gmail.com
Muru 012-3072027 / murudevi@yahoo.com
Rajj 016-2200765 / l0rd_huntsman@yahoo.com
 
Account details are as below:

Name: UNITED MALAYSIAN INDIAN SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT CLUB (UMIC)
ROS No:0867-08-SEL
Bank: RHB
Branch: IOI Mall, Puchong
Acc no: 2-12125-0011434-0
 
Upon banking-in, kindly SMS your name and amount to any of the above numbers.
 
 
Pls visit http:///www.umic.org.my and http://www.umic.com.my for more details of the club and the projects/events (we are still updating the website, so do bear with us). Again, we look forward for your support. More info will be posted as it is made available. Please forward this to your friends and family members.
 
Thank you.

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