SDC Education Fund Letter of Appeal

As some of you would know that as our building fund is drawing to a close, we have now started to push forward a new community project, namely the SDC education Fund.

The following is a letter of appeal from the SDC Education Fund Sub-Committee;

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Letter of Appeal for SDC Education Fund

Education is an important asset to have in the lives of everyone, especially for young children. However, in the current economic climate, many underprivileged children are suffering as their parents struggle in their livelihood.

Over the past year (namely 2011) , a small group of us at the centre have been working on a new project, the aim of which is to promote education by helping those who is in need of help, both financially or otherwise. After some effort, we have now managed to put 2 schemes in place.

The first is a bursary fund for schools near to our centre. Through the effort of both Bro Wan Yew Hoong & Bro Lam Chook Hong, we have managed to identify three primary schools and they are working with us to set up an yearly book prizes which are awarded to the top students of the respective years. The reason we chose these schools is because they all have a very high proportion of underprivileged students.

As we are a Buddhist centre, we also tried to promote Buddhist Education. In memory of our Guru, His Eminence Khensur Jampa Yeshe Rinpopche, who recently entered into parinirvana, we have established a bursary funds for the education of young monks in the monastery in India (we intend to name it "Khensur Jampa Yeshe Education Fund" in memory of our Guru).

 

 

The two existing schemes need approximately need an annual budget of RM3,000 each. In order to give confidence to the parties to work with us, we have given them a commitment of minimum two years.

As we just entering into the first quarter of 2012, so we are in the process of seeking donation for our Education Fund Project. Therefore, we, members of The SDC Education Fund Sub-Committee, are asking for your assistance in helping for our project to move forward.

(1) We would grateful if you would willing to make a small donation to bolster the finance of our project; and

(2) Further, if you have anyone in mind whom you think would like to take part in such meaningful project, please pass us his/her contact so we could approached them directly.

(our contacts are sdcmalaysia (at) gmail.com or sdcedufund (at) gmail.com)

We sincerely hope with your assistance and the additional fund, we could take our project to the next level. Some of the plan we are thinking of, includes school meals, free tuition, transportation...etc.

We have also just entered into a new Tibetan Year, it is said that any merits accrued during this period are multiply many folds, so we hope you would do whatever you could to assist in our small project.

Finally we would like to share with you a letter from the lower school of the monastery, it really moved us and make us more determined to do more. We hope after reading it, you would feel the same too.

Letter sent to us from Gaden Shartse Norling School (8 Dec 2011)

Thank you for your time and kindness in reading this letter of appeal. We look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely,

SDC Education Fund Sub-Committee

sdcedufund (at) gmail.com