#DonateYourAngPau #MakeAChange for Dialysis Care of underprivileged families

The Story

Great Heart Charity Association (GHCA) (https://www.greatheartcharity.org.my) is a tax-exempted, non-profit charitable organization in Malaysia that aims to provide substantial and meaningful assistance to people who face difficulties in their life. Their caring target includes underprivileged families, dialysis patients, orphanages, old folks home, persons with disabilities, and others.

Unfortunately, many are not aware of the difficult battles and challenges dialysis patients have to encounter. Treatment (3x per week) may costs up to RM3,500/month. Some would even abandon their treatments as they refuse to be a financial burden to their families.

Hence, as someone who cares deeply about helping the ones in need, we are organising a fundraising campaign that focuses on these families;

• Family A: A father who had to rely on his lorry driver son for his living after depleting his life saving on dialysis treatment and whose wife been recently diagnosed with stroke as well.
• Family B: A mother who was abandoned by her two children, has high blood pressure, diabetes, and kidney failure, and is now staying alone in a rented apartment room.
• Family C: An unaccompanied elderly suffering from high blood pressure, diabetes, kidney failure, and had undergone a bypass surgery, who strive hard to continue earning a living by working as a workshop admin.
• Family D: A single, unaccompanied elderly suffering from SLE, thyroid cancer, asthma, high blood pressure, and kidney disease, who relies on her depleting EPF savings for a living.
• Family E: A husband suffering from kidney failure had used up all his KWSP savings for his dialysis treatment and is now relying on his wife, who has to take up 2 jobs a day to sustain his treatment costs.

GHCA supports families undergoing dialysis treatment every month by subsidising up to RM720 of their monthly medical fees. Each of the support extended will be for a period of 6 months review basis. Most of these families are in the process of applying for treatment subsidies from agencies such as the Ministry of Health and SOCSO, which takes time. Thus, the assistance provided will help ease the beneficiaries’ burden during this process.

Funds raised from this campaign will enable us to extend support for five of the dialysis care families for a period of 6 months.

• RM60 will enable us to subsidise 1 session of treatment for 1 family.
• RM180 will enable us to subsidise 1 week of 3 sessions treatment for 1 family.
• RM300 will enable us to subsidise 1 session of treatment for 5 families.

What are you waiting for? Together, we shall #DonateYourAngPau now and #MakeAChange to these less unfortunate families so that they can go through their new year smoothly just like us! Be their guardian angel and help us reach our goals by donating now. Every penny could save lives!