Persatuan Dialisis Touch - Needs Your Support

HAEMODIALYSIS – Giving lives a chance at life.

Pusat Dialisis Touch was established by Persatuan Dialisis Touch Petaling Jaya, Selangor (PDT), an NGO registered with the Registrar of Society. Its purpose is to support the Malaysian Government’s call to set up more dialysis centres to cater for the increasing number of kidney failure patients.

Haemodialysis is the best hope to keep patients with failed kidneys alive until they can receive a kidney transplant.

PDT is grateful to all donors and supporters who have contributed generously. We now have a centre that is equipped with modern facilities to house patients in separate treatment rooms for Hepatitis B and C patients.

The centre has the capacity to treat 60 patients and we offer them free consultation of nephrologist and free basic blood test. The first patient intake was on 1st. December 2007.

Patients will undergo the 4-hour treatment thrice a week. Each treatment costs RM110.00 and we help them to apply for the government subsidy of RM50.00 each. If patients have difficulty with the balance of RM60.00, we will aid them through a special sponsorship programme to ensure that they get the treatment they need.

VISION

Giving end-stage kidney failure patients a chance at life.

MISSION

To serve the community by alleviating the life-long financial burden of the lower, to the middle-income earners with kidney failure irrespective of race, religion or creed.

COMMITMENT

To provide affordable and high quality dialysis treatments for the patients.

To solicit contributions to finance the centre’s operation and to provide financial aid to those who could not afford.

To raise funds for kidney transplant.

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For further information, please contact:

Ng Yang Kuan (Andrew) – President.
013 3516 033

Tong Kooi Lian (Anne) – Fund Raising Chairperson
012 2143 318

Contributions should be in Cheque/Bank Draft/Money Order to be made in favour of “Persatuan Dialisis Touch Petaling Jaya, Selangor” and crossed A/C Payee Only or to bank in direct at EON Bank Bhd. Account No: 0168-10-006668-4.

Persatuan Dialisis Touch Petaling Jaya,
26&28, Jalan PJU 5/16, Dataran Sunway,
Kota Damansara,
47810 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor.
603-61577520.

Beauty and Nature

The beauty of nature is painted across the sky with the psychedelic colours to tease the mind and down on earth where shadows in still water dance, they are nevertheless with emotions where an angel might share.

The spectacles from the mountain top in the dewy morning are breathtaking where orchards in blossom down the valley hold the divine beauty. This brings a new day of serenity fills with hope that Nature could offer.

All living things are natural beauty to delight what the eyes behold. The creation of such beauties is the divine art drawn on the pages of Nature.

How To Dress With "Indecisive" Attire

This is the beauty for going on a date. Her wind of change and his impatient wait have created a new "wear" for the date.

Contributed by: Angela Ooi

Ethnic Dancers - Photo Session

The cultural dance groups are from the following ethnic communities:

Kachin
Karenni
Karen
Chin
Mon
Shan
Arrakan

Karen State (Kayin State) is geographically located at the south eastern part of Burma. Karen people make up the second largest population in Burma and its capital is Pa-An Town. The religions practiced are Buddhism and Christianity.

Since 1945, the military had been harassing them and they are oppressed until now by the military regime.

For the fear of their lives, many Karen people and their families have fled to Thailand and Malaysia. Those who are still living in the Capital city, they are watched closely by the military intelligence. They are discriminated on religions and subjugated to mental and physical tortures when they are in the military custody.

There are more than 4,000 Karen people alone in Malaysia (various states) doing mostly odd jobs.

The MKO (Malaysia Karen Organization) was formed in 2005 to render as much help as possible to the ethnic Karen people residing in Malaysia.

MKO office: 42-3G, Wisma City Tower,
Jalan Alor,
50200
Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: 016 2255 415

Myanmar Ethnic Rohingyas Human Rights Organization Malaysia (MERHROM)
Wisma MLS,
31, Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman,
50100
Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: 03 2691369
016 6827 287

The United States President Barack Obama’s Statement

I call on the Burmese government to release National League for Democracy Secretary General and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi from detention immediately and unconditionally. I strongly condemn her house arrest and detention, which have also been condemned around the world. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has issued opinions affirming that the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi dating back to 2003 is arbitrary unjustified and in contravention of Burma’s own law, and the United Nations Security Council reaffirmed on May 22 their concern about the situation and called for the release of all political prisoners.

Aung San Suu Kyi’s continued detention, isolation and show trial based on spurious charges cast serious doubt on the Burmese regime’s willingness to be a responsible member of the international community. This is an important opportunity for the government in Burma to demonstrate that it respects its own laws and its own people, is ready to work with the National League for Democracy and other ethnic and opposition groups, and is prepared to move toward reconciliation.

By her actions, Aung San Suu Kyi has represented profound patriotism, sacrifice and the vision of a democratic and prosperous Burma. It is time for the Burmese government to drop all charges against Aung San Suu Kyi and unconditionally release her and her fellow political prisoners. Such an action would be an affirmative and significant step on Burma’s part to begin to restore its standing in the eyes of the United States and the world community and to move toward a better future for its people.

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Cultural Dances From The Various Ethnic Groups

Like other Asian countries which are culturally rich, the Burmese are the most brutalized people by the military regime. Living in fear for decades, many had to save themselves by becoming refugees.

Bringing with them their ethnic culture to foreign countries, their love for their motherland is very much embedded in their hearts. Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, they still cry for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, who is their hope for generations to come.

More to come

World Refugee Day - 2009

World Refugee Day – 20 June 2009 was a fanfare to the various ethnic Burmese. Their rich cultures displayed through their cultural dances are undoubtedly the enjoyable day for them and the locals.

Their respective leaders from the different ethnic groups give their welcoming speeches.

Our local NGOs make themselves felt to give them the much needed moral support.

More to come.