Core Value Outreach
A report from Kuching, Malaysia Contribution
Core Value Training (CV) have been conducting fundraising auction in most of the class, the intention is to raise fund to Indian "Mother Earth" and this few year CV has expand their donation to many organization, Including Kuching Autistic Association (KAA).
The Kuching Autistic Association (KAA) was formed by a group of parents with autistic children and professionals on 18 January 1988. It was registered as a non-government organization (NGO) on 6 May 1998. The Association runs an Educational and Pre-vocational Training Centre in an old governmental bungalow (‘Banglo Lada’) at Bampfylde Road, Kuching.
On April 29, 2011, Kev and Evon represent Core Value Training to visit them and present a cheque of RM6,500 to the caretaker of the center, Mr Andrew.
The donation of RM1,000 were generously contributed by the students of a CV 4 class in March 2011. All of them felt strongly connected with the children who are autistic and decided to lend a helping hand. In the fundraising auction that was held in Kuching, the whole class also purchased a drawing with meaningful messages that was drawn by Natalie (13 year old Graduate student) for the foundation. This piece of art was also presented to Mr. Andrew along with the cheque.
At the heart and soul of our Core Values Training Program is the belief that each of us needs to give back to our communities however we can. As Linda Chandler travels the globe giving these classes, she makes a special point to involve the students in local outreach activities. Pictured here are Core Values students in Cambodia spending an afternoon in the local village with the simple mission of spreading goodwill and joy. A feast was prepared, children were entertained with songs and balloons and dancing ensued.
Just as Linda walks her talk and gives back to others, she hopes to inspire sharing as a core value in all of us.
Over the years, Linda has been especially touched by the needs of children in India, and she now supports one orphanage and has begun raising funds for a second one. Children of Mother Earth (COME) was set up by its founder, a Singaporean engineer Ravi Rai, whose dream was to create a home for underprivileged children from remote villages and those who were living on the streets and in railway stations in Uttar Pradesh (Northern India). Since 2003, Linda Chandler and Core Value Training have been raising funs for the organization. Now there are five centers (two in Gorakhpur, two in Lucknow and one in Delhi). Through these centers, COME provides a caring home, food, clothes, medicine, counseling (for substance abuse) and functional literacy to more than 1200 children. This, in turn, helps to keep these children off the streets and reunited with their families.
One of the goals of COME is to enable the children to become part of the wider society and community. This has been achieved, as more than 200 children have made the transition to the mainstream schools or vocational training. COME manages this transition and other issues that sometimes arise including housing runaways, lost and working children who are in need.
