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*PROJEK WAWASAN RAKYAT [ @WawasanRakyat ] COVID-19 EFFORTS - INTERIM REPORTS*

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Projek Wawasan Rakyat (POWR) is delighted to share our first interim report on fund allocation, as of 29th March, 2020.

We will continue providing these updates, and by the end of the MCO (or sooner should the MCO be long extended) we will provide a full accounting of all the monies raised and how they were spent.

HIGHLIGHTS

Funds:

• RM 20,672 paid to Kiddocare, to provide 90% childcare subsidies for healthcare workers, and a total of 1,556 hours of childcare to date.

• RM 10,000 paid social enterprises that has been providing free meals to frontliners and soon to B40 communities, sponsoring a total of about 1,000 meals.

• RM 10,436 raised from a private donor to pay for 4 airconditioners for the Pharmacy Dept of Hospital Sungai Buloh.

Logistics, Administrative & Networking:

• Co-organising Homes4Heroes - an initiative to ensure that Ministry of Health personnel that are being transferred to frontline hospitals have comfortable housing and reliable transport.

• Facilitated a purchase by ABIM of 1,400 surgical gowns that were distributed to Klinik Kesihatan Kuala Lumpur and other locations.

(Full details of all projects below.)

HOW CAN THE RAKYAT HELP?

We manage our finances in collaboration with ABIM, who has kindly lent us their bank account.

All donations can be made there: 14023010011219 (ABIM, Bank Islam).

Please tag your donation transfer to show us how you would like your funds to be used:

#Childcare: For our childcare project
#Food: For our food project
#General: If you would like us to channel your funds to where there is the greatest need, at any point in time.

DETAILED REPORTS

#FrontlinersFirst Childcare Subsidy with Kiddocare

The MCO involved the shut down of childcare centres and schools, leaving working frontliners with young children few available avenues for childcare.

Kiddocare is a platform that matches childcare professionals (Kiddocarers) to homes that need them.

POWR has been sourcing funds to provide a 90% subsidy of the discounted cost provided by Kiddocare to frontliners.

This enables the women working as Kiddocarers to continue earning an income during the MCO, without burdening frontliners financially.

At time of writing, we have managed to subsidise 1,292 hours of childcare at a cost of RM 17,266.

Further details and a FAQ is available on our poster below, on our website [ rakyat.org/p/project-fron… ] and on Kiddocare’s website [ kiddocare.my ].

Air conditioners for Pharmacy Department, Hospital Sg. Buloh

The Pharmacy Department of Hospital Sg. Buloh was moved to Hospital Kusta Sg. Buloh because of overcrowding at the main hospital.

In order to store medicine supplies safely at the new location, four new air conditioners were required.

POWR was able to source four 2hp air conditioners from Senheng, kindly sponsored by a private donor, and arranged for the installation on site. The total cost was RM 10,436.

There were multiple challenges, including the fact that the Senheng warehouse where the air conditioners were kept had been locked by the police. Through patient persistence, the air conditioners were finally installed on the 27th of March.

(Photos)

#Food4Frontliners

We are working together social enterprises that deliver food (Grabfood or Foodpanda style), who from very early on hit the ground running in quickly identifying which shifts in which hospitals required food, and channeling food to those who needed them most.

POWR has thus far channeled RM 10,000 to social enterprise GoJob [ m.facebook.com/gojobmalaysia/ ] thus sponsoring about 1,000 meals) and hope to channel more.

They have sourced food donations from a wide variety of sources, including other social enterprises like PichaEats [ pichaeats.com/en/ ] (which employs refugees & other vulnerable communities) & sent them to the following locations:

• Hospital Serdang
• Hospital Sungai Buloh
• KL General Hospital

From the 28th of March 2020, Hospital Sungai Buloh will begin receiving lunch deliveries for their frontliners.

GoJob is also working on providing meals to B40 communities such as those in Flat PKNS Jalan Tun Razak that have had their incomes severely slashed due to the MCO.

Testimonials and photos from GoJob:

On the 21st of March 2020, both Hospital Sg Buloh and Serdang received biscuit snacks and drinks from Rex. The first batch of 50 food packs were also sent to Sungai Buloh Hospital Night shifts Emergency Department.

We were encouraged to hear Dr Ferwahn Fairis say, "Your food all sedap...my staff semua puji!"

On the 22nd of March 2020, Team GoJob delivered 50 packs of Syrian food to Hospital Sungai Buloh Emergency Department, while another 20 packs were delivered to Hospital Serdang.

On the 23rd of March 2020, Hospital Serdang received 150 Rotiboy buns and a load of boxes of PESTA fruity drink was donated by Brilliant Fruit Cordial’s Sales Director, Mr William Chua, to Hospital Serdang.

On the 24th of March 2020, Team GoJob delivered 50 packs of dinner prepared by Mozer's and 150 buns from Rotiboy during tea time for the Covid-19 Screening/ Emergency Department at Hospital Sungai Buloh.

Another 50 packs were delivered by PichaEats to the Emergency Department of Hospital Serdang. 120 meals delivered to 2 night shifts for both Serdang and Sungai Buloh Hospitals.

On the 25th of March 2020, we delivered 50 packs to the COVID-19 Screening Department of KL General Hospital, where the staff are on night shifts. Another 70 packs were also delivered to Hospital Serdang’s Emergency Department and COVID-19 screening team.

On the 26th of March, we delivered 120 meals: 20 packs to the Covid-19 Night Shift Screening Team
and 50 packs to the Emergency Department of Hospital Serdang. Another 50 meals were sent to our frontliners at Hospital Sungai Buloh.

On the 27th of March 2020, we delivered 50 meals, along with face masks and tudungs to Hospital Sg. Buloh.

On the 28th of March, we helped deliver 200 meals to Hospital Serdang, where the cafeteria has limited services. Another 70 meals were also sent to the COVID-19 Screening Team who were on nightshift.

To Hospital Sungai Buloh, we sent 50 meals for those working the night shift in the Emergency Department.

On the same night, we were also able to deliver meals to B40 households in PKNS flats on Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman, just off Kampung Bahru.

Supporting Klinik Kesihatan with ABIM

We had some fruitful collaboration with ABIM, both in fundraising and connecting organisations with suppliers and contacts.

POWR played a small part in assisting ABIM with providing 100 surgical gowns, masks, disposable gloves, hand sanitisers, dry food, fruits, and drinks to Klinik Kesihatan Kuala Lumpur; and provided a contact that resulted in the purchase of 1,400 surgical gowns.

Homes4Heroes (POWR x KJK)

POWR has been working with our partners at KitaJaga.us to identify hotels and empty apartments in areas near hospitals to ensure our frontliners are able to get adequate rest without fear of infecting their loved ones at home.

This is especially necessary for personnel that have been transferred to frontline hospitals from other locations.

To date, we have been able to secure the support of the Tune and OYO hotel chains.

We have also received generous offers from Speedhome x Allianz, Sime Darby, and individual homeowners who have opened up their doors.

Thus far 19 doctors have been placed thanks to Sime Darby, SpeedHome, KYY Homes, and other individual owners, while 2 more cases are pending.

We also managed to persuade Grab to provide subsidised transport for frontliners (hospital cleaners, nurses, doctors, etc.) at 28 hospitals.

Testimony from a doctor at HKL:

Yeay.. i pass around the happy news.. 🙂🙂🙂All of us are worried, some of us did not go home just because did not want our old parents to get infected cause we might be asymptomatic carrier (cont'd below)

(i haven’t go back since early feb, cause i was among the earliest to respond as the frontliner). A wonderful gesture like this really light up our days.. Honestly we are crumbling, our morale are at its weakest.. with our comrade defeated and our patients deceased..

This simple act of kindness and love really lighten up our days.. Thank you so much😘

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