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1 Deployed Goes Online! MARCH Flood Response in Long Panai, Marudi, Sarawak 4MERCY Malaysia Provides Psychosocial First Aid and Mental Health Assistance to Malaysia Airlines staff and crew 4MERCY Malaysia Vaccination Outreach Clinic 4MERCY Malaysia Hands Over Completed Restoration Works To Ormoc District Hospital 4MERCY Malaysia Handed Over Completed Restoration Works and A New Ambulance to Leyte Provincial Hospital 4PLAY It Forward Music & Art Charity Show 4Mendaki Untuk Syria 4Message from the President 4MERCY Malaysia in the News 4Announcements 4How to Donate

2 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Special Message From The President This is an excerpt (Youtube link) of telephone interview between Astro Awani and our President, Dato Dr. Ahmad Faizal Mohd. Perdaus, with regard to MERCY Malaysia s efforts to the crew of Malaysia Airlines through psychosocial first aid assistance, on 11 th March (This link is uploaded on our MERCY Malaysia Facebook page on 13 th March 2014.) PATRON HRH Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah, the Sultan of Perak BOARD OF TRUSTEES Tan Sri Dato Ajit Singh Tan Sri Dato Ahmad Fuzi Haji Abdul Razak Toh Puan Dato Seri Hajjah Dr. Aishah Ong Tan Sri Professor Dato Dzulkifli Abdul Razak Datuk Johan Jaaffar Mrs. Gaik Wong Ms. Elizabeth Lee Fuh Yen EXECUTIVE COUNCIL PRESIDENT Dato Dr. Ahmad Faizal Mohd Perdaus VICE PRESIDENT (MEDICAL) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohamed Ikram Mohamed Salleh VICE PRESIDENT (NON-MEDICAL) Hj. Norazam Ab Samah HONORARY SECRETARY YM Raja Riza Shazmin Raja Badrul Shah ASSISTANT HONORARY SECRETARY Dr. Hariyati Shahrima Abdul Majid, PhD HONORARY TREASURER Ir. Amran Mahzan, PMP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS Dr. Heng Aik Cheng Mr. Sam Tee Kam Bee Prof. Dr. Shalimar Abdullah CO-OPTED EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS Dr. Jitendra Kumar S.N. Tejani Dr. Shahridan Mohd. Fathil Assoc. Prof. Dr. Helen Benedict Lasimbang SECRETARIAT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Ahmad Faezal Mohamed GENERAL MANAGER - OPERATIONAL SUPPORT Robert Taylor SENIOR ADVISOR COMMUNICATIONS AND FUNDRAISING Megawati Rashidi EDITORIAL Norehan Salleh Elfayra Rosa T. Guis DESIGN & LAYOUT BY: Triknight Creative Sdn. Bhd. NOTE: News reported is as of March However, due to space constraints, not all news could be captured in this issue. For more information, please log on to Twitter.com/@MERCYMalaysia

3 LOCAL STORIES MERCY Malaysia Vaccination Outreach Clinic On 19 th March 2014, MERCY Malaysia deployed its team for the third mission in its vaccination programme. The vaccination clinic began at 1pm and ended at 4.10pm and was held at HELP Learning Centre, Kepong. The beneficiaries for this vaccination clinic are students of HELP Learning Centre (HLC), under 18 years old. The Myanmarese teacher informed the team that many of her students had already left for resettlement. Despite the news received, there were a few new students who had just registered in the school. The team reported that most of the students were calm during the vaccination process. Dr. Puteri assessing the students previous records and prescribing vaccines for them Dr. Zia-U recording a patient s weight Flood Response in Long Panai, Marudi, Sarawak On the 8 th to 11 th February 2014, MERCY Malaysia Sarawak Chapter mission responded and delivered the second batch of humanitarian aid to 200 doors of flood beneficiaries in Long Panai, Long Pahlo and Long Ukok in Marudi. The mission response teams were Dr. Ehfa Bujang Safawi, Bybiana Micheal, Johnny Uvang Ajeng, Roslyn, Martin Ak Jandom and Hew Cheong Yew. Volunteers helping to pack the hygiene kits The 200 packages of hygiene kits were handed over to the Ketua Kampung and his committee members

4 LOCAL STORIES MERCY Malaysia Provides Psychosocial First Aid and Mental Health Assistance to Malaysia Airlines staff and crew MERCY Malaysia joins in to help Malaysia Airlines System (MAS), by providing psychosocial first aid together with mental health assistance to the staff and crew of Malaysia Airlines. Its priority will be reaching out a helping hand to those who are affected by this distressing event which involves humane, supportive and practical help to those in need. The friendly space named MERCY Malaysia Support Center for the airlines staff and crew has been set up at the Flight Management Building, KLIA. This assistance from MERCY Malaysia is led by Executive Council member, Dr Hariyati Shahrima Abdul Majid who is also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology, Kuliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). MERCY Malaysia Psychosocial Assistance Team MERCY Malaysia Support Centre - The Friendly Space Dato Dr. Ahmad Faizal Mohd. Perdaus, President of MERCY Malaysia meets with Psychosocial Assistance team

5 INTERNATIONAL STORIES MERCY Malaysia Hands Over Completed Restoration Works To Ormoc District Hospital On 6 th of March 2014, MERCY Malaysia successfully handed over its completed rehabilitation works of Ormoc District Hospital to the Governor of Leyte Province, today. The work, which covered of up to 80 per cent of the damaged area of the hospital, was completed on 23 rd December Ormoc District Hospital is a Level 1 referral hospital situated in Ormoc City and was badly affected by Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda. The hospital, operated by the Provincial Government of Leyte, sustained 80 per cent damage on its roofing structure. After the disaster, there was only one out of three blocks which was operational while others including wards, operating complex and delivery rooms were totally damaged and not functional. MERCY Malaysia is one of the first humanitarian agencies to have arrived at Ormoc District Hospital on 14 th November 2014, a week after the super typhoon struck the central Leyte Island. MERCY Malaysia deployed its Emergency Response Unit consisting of tents, equipment and medical supplies to run a temporary Outpatient Department which was in operation for two months. More than 20 medical volunteers were deployed during the period. New facilities donated by MERCY Malaysia at Ormoc District Hospital Dato Dr. Ahmad Faizal Mohd. Perdaus received an appreciation certificate plague from Dominico L. Petilla, the Governor of Leyte Province during Handover Ceremony of Ormoc District Hospital Damaged facilities

6 INTERNATIONAL STORIES MERCY Malaysia Handed Over Completed Restoration Works and A New Ambulance to Leyte Provincial Hospital MERCY Malaysia started the rehabilitation work on January 3, 2014 which includes repair works of the roof and building structure of all the damaged blocks. The painting works of three blocks of the hospital was also done by MERCY Malaysia. The rehabilitation works costs RM169,230 over a period of two months and it was completed on February 28, The following are the rehabilitation and construction works at Leyte Provincial Hospital. 1. Rehabilitation of the Operating Rooms which include fixing the roof trusses, replacement of roofing sheets, hollow block walls, ceiling and reinforcement of the roof beams. 2. Rehabilitation of the Pediatric and medical wards as well as the surgical and ob-gyne wards through repair work of the roof trusses, replacement of roof sheets and ceiling. President of MERCY Malaysia, Dato Dr. Ahmad Faizal Mohd. Perdaus delivering a speech during handover ceremony at Leyte Provincial Hospital 3. Together with the South Korean army, MERCY Malaysia rehabilitated the Outpatient Department block and laboratory block by fixing the roof trusses and installing new roofing sheets. Collaboration with the army continued with repair works of the roof trusses of the cafeteria block. 4. The roofing of the walkway from the Outpatient Department to the wards was also fixed. In addition, MERCY Malaysia also donated a new ambulance amounting to RM92,300 to assist this hospital in serving the community in Palo and its suburbs. Dato Dr. Ahmad Faizal Mohd. Perdaus handing over a mock key of ambulance to the Governor of Leyte Province during Handover Ceremony of Leyte Provincial Hospital New Ambulance

7 INTERNATIONAL STORIES MERCY MALAYSIA IN THE NEWS 4 5 Shelter repair kits given to 403 families in Ormoc The Sun, 10 March Damaged schools in urgent need of repair The Sun, 10 March MERCY Malaysia repairs Haiyan-damaged hospital The Sun, 10 March 2014

8 INTERNATIONAL STORIES MERCY MALAYSIA IN THE NEWS 4 MERCY Malaysia lends helping hand The Sun, 13 March 2014

9 INTERNATIONAL STORIES MERCY MALAYSIA IN THE NEWS

10 APPRECIATION TO DONORS Megawati Md. Rashidi, Senior Advisor, Communications & Fundraising received donation cheque from Ally H, Musicpreneur and Organizing Chairperson for Play It Forward Music and Art Charity Show Play It Forward Music & Art Charity Show in The Star, 22 February 2014 PLAY It Forward Music & Art Charity Show On 26 th February 2014, PLAY It Forward organized Play It Forward Music & Art Charity Show event at Black Box Publika, Solaris Dutamas. PLAY It Forward is a community of like-minded people using the expression of music and art in a positive way to give back to society via performances. The charity show managed to raise an amount of RM4,140 to MERCY Malaysia as one of the beneficiary for this event. Mendaki Untuk Syria On the 23rd of March 2013, a hiking event entitled Mendaki untuk Syria at Broga Hill, Semenyih, Selangor, was a fund-raising effort organized by Latepackers to help raise funds for Syrian children and refugees. These affected populations are greatly affected by the war crisis where some have been denied access to medication, food supply and other necessities. The funds raised will be donated to MERCY Malaysia for the humanitarian aid in Syria which will be used to provide medication and other essential needs.

11 MERCY MALAYSIA ACCOUNTS Announcements As a non-profit organization, MERCY Malaysia relies solely on fundings and donations from organization and generous individuals to continue our services to provide humanitarian assistance to our beneficiaries. Your contribution could make a difference in someone s life. No matter how small, it goes a long way. MERCY Humanitarian Fund MERCY Malaysia MBB CIMB Swift Code: MBBEMYKLA Swift Code: CIBBMYKL Borneo International Marathon 2014 Good news to all marathoners!! Borneo International Marathon 2014 will be again organized on 4 th may The marathon with a slogan, May the 4 th be with you, will be taking place at Likas Stadium, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. The event has garnered support by Ministry of Youth and Sports, Sabah Tourism Board and Dewan bandaraya Kota Kinabalu (DBKK). For online donations, please visit our website, and seringgitsehari.org.my Malaysian Medical Relief Society (RN: 1155) No.4, Jalan Langgak Golf, Off Jalan Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Tel No.: Fax No.: MERCY Malaysia has been as a beneficiary of Borneo International Marathon for the last 6 years since The funds received were allocated for the Intervention Groups for Alcohol Misuse (IGAM) programme in Sabah. For further information on this marathon, please visit Borneo International Marathon (BIM) website at

12 ABOUT US Stories From Our Volunteers TV3 Misi K team (documentary program) in action, taking shots of MERCY Malaysia s efforts toward the affected people in Ormoc and Tacloban, Leyte Island, Philippines. Attending to a little patient MERCY Malaysia focuses on providing medical relief, sustainable healthrelated development and risk reduction activities for vulnerable communities, in both crisis and non-crisis situations. We provide emergency medical and humanitarian aid wherever we are needed. We carry out sustainable development, in terms of: Helping the communities find ways to prepare and protect themselves in the event of natural disasters, Rebuilding and refurnishing hospitals and health clinics, and Providing health training and health education. Our aim is to build resilience in all the communities that we touch. Coming soon this July 2014 on TV3.