Charity & Volunteering 01 (Jun 08 - Mar 11)

[millionairemind]

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Do you like working with children from 10-12 yrs of age?

Do you feel like contributing to society but do not know where to start?

Do you have a couple of hours every Saturday to help out an underprivileged kid from a very low income family and become his/her mentor??

If you answered YES to the above, WE NEED YOU

The Supervised Homework Group (SHG) from CDAC at Marsiling MRT branch is short of adult volunteers. The kids that come to the center from 1-4pm every Saturday are from low income families where the TOTAL INCOME/FAMILY is no more than $1200. Quite a few of them are from single parent homes or families with alot of problems.

Between 1-3pm, we coach them in their studies (Math, Science and English). From 3-4pm, we play games with them and act as mentor. Don't worry if you feel that you might not be able to coach them, we have guide books, WE JUST NEED YOU

As all of them come from low income families with little means, this 1-to-1 attention hopes to provide good mentorship/tutoring. We have kids that fail every subject and after attending the classes for a couple of years, pass at least past 3 out of 4 subjects.

If you think you are up to the task, please PM me here or email me at [email protected]

Thank you

[winston]

The best way to help another

Question: I want to help people, serve them. What is the best way?
Krishnamurti: The best way is to begin to understand yourself and change yourself. In this desire to help another, to serve another, there is hidden pride, conceit. If you love you serve. The clamour to help is born of vanity.

If you want to help another, you must know yourself for you are the other. Outwardly we may be different—yellow, black, brown, or white—but we are all driven by craving, by fear, by greed, or by ambition; inwardly we are very much alike.

Without self-knowledge, how can you have knowledge of another’s needs? Without understanding yourself, you cannot understand another, serve another. Without self-knowledge you are acting in ignorance, and so creating sorrow…

The Collected Works vol III, p 219

Source: jkrishnamurthi.com

[winston]

An interesting perspective. Keep an open mind, think through things thoroughly and then decide whether it's good or not. Dont pooh pooh something just because it does not agree with you in the first place. Think about it, Analyse it and see where the other guy is coming from. He could be right ..

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Charity? Humbug! by Doug Casey

If Warren Buffett really wanted to be charitable with his billions, he would have concentrated on making billions more.

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Simply put, I don't believe in philanthropy or charitable giving — at least not the ordinary kind.

Charitable giving and the concept of charity itself are among the stupidest and most destructive humbugs stalking Americans of good will today. Warren Buffett's bequest of $31 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provides an excellent opportunity to discuss the harm done in the name of charity and the confusion that surrounds the topic.

http://libertyunbound.com/archive/2006_ ... arity.html

[millionairemind]

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Elizabeth Bibesco


Not what we give, but what we share,

For the gift without the giver is bare;

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,

Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.

James Russell Lowell

Simply give others a bit of yourself; a thoughtful act, a helpful idea, a word of appreciation, a lift over a rough spot, a sense of understanding, a timely suggestion. You take something out of your mind, garnished in kindness out of your heart, and put it into the other person's mind and heart.

Charles H. Burr


The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement.

Sidney Madwed


The measure of life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Peter Marshall

[winston]

Saw them on "Impact your world" on CNN tonight ..

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LA sports arena hosts health clinic of last resort By Dan Whitcomb

INGLEWOOD, California (Reuters) - Inside an aging sports arena, where rows of dental chairs and a hospital smell have replaced the former Los Angeles Lakers basketball court, thousands of Americans are seeking free healthcare.

Hundreds were turned away just on Tuesday, the first day of a weeklong clinic run by the nonprofit Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corp as part of its mission to provide free health, dental and eye care in needy spots around the world.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/ ... pnewsearly

[kennynah]

Just saw this on TV...Oprah Winfrey's "The BIG Give"...

some rich billionaire pair of brothers dished out usd700K to 7 people. each taking usd100k n they are given 24 hours to give those money away ... unknown to the participants, the eventual winner of this series of giveaways will win usd1million...

rules of the game :

a) cannot give out cash
b) each recipient can receive a max of $500 in kind
c) each campaign cannot exceed 10K

how they go about dishing out the money is entirely up to their creative ideas...

these were some of the ways they went about performing their charity acts...

bought household equipment and gave to the poor living in rural areas
shopping centre free purchases
gave money to school principal to buy meaningful items for school children
donated items to orphanage
etc...

how would you have done it?

[millionairemind]

Built schools in poor rural areas in third world countries by donating to "Room To Read".

Each school costs USD35K and will educated scores of poor children so that they can get a leg up the ladder.

[Aspellian]

Built schools in poor rural areas in third world countries by donating to "Room To Read".

Each school costs USD35K and will educated scores of poor children so that they can get a leg up the ladder.

I do believe that education is a ticket for the poor and needy to be away from poverty.
let's all return to the society in our little ways.

but always remember this though "succeed in family first", then slowly expand your circle of influence - quote from stephen covey "7 habits of highly effective people".

[millionairemind]

Published August 21, 2009

49% of consumers will give to charity

By RACHEL SIM

A SURVEY by MasterCard Worldwide found that 49 per cent of consumers in Singapore have plans to contribute towards a charitable cause in the second half of the year.

Fifty-one per cent of Singaporean women are slightly more inclined towards making a charitable contribution than their male counterparts, who fall behind at 47 per cent of Singaporean men.

In particular, 60 per cent of females under the age of 30 plan to donate more compared to their male counterparts, who lag by more than half at 28 per cent. The balance changes with the older respondents, with older men being more charitable. Sixty per cent of men between the age of 46 and 55 seem to be more willing to donate compared with women, who stood at 41 per cent.

These were the findings from a consumer survey conducted between March 23 and April 18. A total of 401 consumers in Singapore were surveyed on their plans to make a charitable donation in the following six months.

Findings revealed that the majority of consumers in Singapore are looking to donate between one and 2 per cent of their annual income, and only 6 per cent of consumers planning to donate are looking to give more than 5 per cent of their annual income.

Interestingly, older consumers have a higher propensity to donate. Fifty-one per cent of respondents aged 46-55 years and 60 per cent of those aged 56 years and above said that they were planning to donate to charity over the next six months, compared with just 44 per cent of consumers aged 18-30 and 47 per cent of consumers aged 31-45 years.

The survey also shows that those who are married are more likely to donate compared with those who are single, with 52 per cent of married people donating compared with 44 per cent of non-married people donating.

[kennynah]

Findings revealed that the majority of consumers in Singapore are looking to donate between one and 2 per cent of their annual income, and only 6 per cent of consumers planning to donate are looking to give more than 5 per cent of their annual income.

if one earns $100K...1 - 5 % represents $1K - $5K....choon bo ?