Pudu Rotary Club
DISTRICT 3300 MALAYSIA
~~~~~~~~~Innovative Projects
In our endeavor to serve mankind, Pudu Rotarians can stand tall in knowing that they have been very successful especially in innovating catalytic projects namely:-
The milk feeding scheme launched in 1975 by the then Education Minister YB Dr Mahathir Mohamad convinced the Government to implement similar programs for all schools in the country.
With other Rotary Clubs, we formed the Selangor Vocational Guidance Association which today is laying a very useful role in guiding our youths in choosing a career.
The special design school-bag initiated by PP Dato Soong Siew Hoong in 1977 is THE SCHOOL-BAG of our school children today.
The challenge PP (Dr) Lee Hoo Teong accepted in sending the first batch of Rotarians' children to the Outward Bound Children' Adventure Course in 1983 has today become a regular feature of OBS.
The Dengkil Orang Asli water pump project where we provided clean water to the people last year surely preempted RI Theme of " Preserve Planet Earth" this year.
The success story of managing the Jenjarom Old Folks' Home had motivated our then District Governor Vincent Tang to have as District Project, "Rotary Adopting Old Folks' Homes" throughout the District.
The Malaysian Cambodian Limb Project was initiated to provide financial assistance to the poor innocent victims who lost their limb/s from the land mines in the war torn Cambodia. The funds raised were sent to the UK Cambodian Trust to produce artificial limbs for the amputees numbering over 60,000 till to-date.
The Home Nursing Care projects aims to provide basic nursing care at the homes of the paralysed, bed-ridden or terminally ill patients who have been discharged from the hospitals and who are too poor to afford home nursing care. With the members of the St John's Ambulance who have been trained in Home Nursing Care, this project hopes to provide this very much needed service.
The Club's attention to the unfortunate youths -- orphans, spastics, retarded -- by taking them out on an outing of their lifetime like the Haadyai overnight train journey, and nature camps at Pulau Redang and Endau-Rompin are becoming popular undertakings and have won the Club an award each time. Last year RY 1997/98 a Family Values nature camp to Lake Kenyir was successfully carried out. The target group was youths from broken and unstable homes.
The success of RC Pudu's "First-Aid training for Tow-Truck drivers"" carried out as a Vocational Service project in 1996 has prompted the District to adopt the scheme as a district-wide project in RY 1998/99 and again in 2000/01. Rotafom sponsored the project. The Association of Tow Truck Drivers has since made it mandatory for new Tow-Truckers to qualify in first aid before commencing employment.
The "Put a Smile Back on the Little Faces" project for cleft lips and cleft palate children was launched on 29 May 2000. It has since gone nationwide with the overwhelming support from medical centres and hospitals spanning all corners of Malaysia. They are Megah Medical Specialist Group Sdn Bhd, Tung Shin Hospital, Pantai Medical Centre, Ampang Puteri Specialist Hospital, Loh Guan Lye Specialist Centre, Penang, Gleneagles Intan Medical Centre, Subang Jaya Medical Centre, Fatimah Hospital, lpoh Specialist Centre, Johore Specialist Hospital, Malacca Mahkota Medical Centre, and Hospital University Kebangsaan Malaysia. District 3300 has also ecouraged this project for other Clubs to carry out.
