Never like Mendaki since last time. All my financial application was decline due to my race is Boyanese and not Malay. Bleargh! Still deduct my pay. Take my pay for free uh? Aku kerja bukan untuk kasi korang free free k.
Dont comment and say ‘ sedekah dengan ikhlas” NO this is not sedekah this is mencuri!
Whether i donate or not, its between me and ALLAH SWT. how much i donate its between me and HIM. There’s a no need for people to know or proud abt it.
Source: Jiliah Jimahat
The upcoming PE has definitely once again throw the spotlight on Malays and Indian Muslims. In Singapore context, Indian Muslims have always been the sandwich race. We are sandwich between our Malay living lifestyle and our identity. Mendaki double standard is not helping in this matter.
Malay and Muslim are used interchangeably in Singapore context as and when they feel the need for it (Senang cakap ikut suka hati mak bapak dorang lah).
I give you a true point in case. Most of my Indian Muslims relatives contributed to both Mendaki and Sinda. When their children applied for the bursary or financial assistance, the favorite quote would be ‘sorry, Mendaki are for Malays. You can try applying to Sinda.”
But lo and behold, when any of this INDIAN MUSLIMS did well, suddenly they will be invited to Mendaki for whatever not ceremony to pose for pictures with you know who and claim their success under MENDAKI MALAY / MUSLIM banner. And Sinda never does that before. It’s very confusing tau for us! it leads to our own IDENTITY CRISIS…..Sad right?…..
This has always been our bone of contentions and I don’t think much has changed since.
As a Mendaki spokesman had declared and confirmed this biases “Malay-Muslim self-help group Yayasan Mendaki has a set of criteria for its financial assistance schemes for students administered on behalf of the Government. Among other things, the recipients “must be of Malay descent” as stated in their identity cards. It spells out a list of what it considers to be “Malay descent”, and this includes 22 ethnicities including Acehnese, Javanese, Boyanese, Sumatran, Sundanese, and Bugis. Students with “double-barrelled” race are eligible if the first race is listed on the identity cards as Malay, said a Mendaki spokesman. For example, a student who is Malay-Arab would qualify for the schemes but an Arab-Malay student would not, he added.”
CONFUSED HOR!
P.S – My daughter did not get any financial help from Mendaki after finding out all the stringent rules attached to it. It works out to something like ‘I scratch your back and you have to scratch more of mine’. However, when she did well, she was invited to attend the Mendaki ceremony, giving the impression that she owes her success to Mendaki.
WHATEVER!
Source: Zarina Jaffar
Madam Shireen is a 34 years old mother of 4 kids, 2 boys are her own, while the other 2 girls are left to her care due to their own broken family left behind by their own parents. She also has a mother whom she’s the only caregiver full time, and thus she’s unable to find work that’s too far away.
Her trouble arises when she’s unable to service her mortgage loan from the bank, which runs to arrears of $11k plus and she was issued with a Writ of Possession against her to vacant her one and only place call home.
Besides the housing loan, Madam Shireen still owes the Town Council about $500 plus, and PUB about $1000 plus.
Her husband walked out on the family last year, after being physically abusive towards her. She is currently on a Personal Protection Order against her husband, thus she can only fend for herself. She was left alone to work and support the family as a convenience store shift leader previously.
Madam Shireen had to stop working in 2012 when her mother had contracted high fever and was left in a coma. Her other siblings were not able to help and the role of the caregiver fell onto Madam Shireen’s shoulders. She still cares for her mother up till today, and constantly shuttles between her home and her mother’s place.
When they bought the flat previously, they have no clue that the loan was under bank loan and not HDB. Madam Shireen tried to seek assistance to refinance her home with HDB but was rejected due to eligibility.
It has come to a stage that her children are going to school without any pocket money, and she’s seeking help from Social Service Office, which they are still processing.
All Madam Shireen want is for her to tie through these tough times and she’s concurrently looking for home based job where she can earn some money for her to continue her life. She loves her children very much, and all she wants is to provide for them to have a shelter over their head. The children are innocent and they should not be suffering together with her. She’s feeling helpless and hopeless, and we hope to bring some light into her life by donating to her generously to help her tie through and no amount is too small. Please also help to share Madam Shireen’s story, as these are cases that’s fallen through the cracks in our society.
For direct tranfer, Mdm Reen Account Number
Posb Savings
170-49122-0
or
You can get in touch with me at
contact email
Sincerely,
Lauretta
Source: https://give.asia
It was almost 12 am by the time we finished tending to our 106th resident who came to seek our assistance at the meet-the people session in Marsiling. It was a very long night indeed as we started our MPS at 7pm. Although I was dead tired, one case stuck in my mind. A 75 year old retired primary school teacher came to appeal for a HDB rental flat. She is currently living in one room, which she rented from the open market, with her low IQ daughter and grandson, both of whom she’s supporting.
She had been re-employed after her retirement by the school until recently when they no longer needed her services. Without an income, she can no longer afford the market rental and is eligible for a public rental flat. I told her that I would appeal for her but also asked her whether she needed financial assistance. She declined but asked me instead to write to another primary school that she had worked for before to enquire whether they had a vacancy for her.
I was quite astounded by the reply of this 75 year old as I have, on a few occasions, received requests from able bodied, younger men who refused to work but was expecting financial assistance which is really meant for the needy who cannot work or support themselves. Although she had politely declined, I will still proceed to secure financial assistance for her as she deserved it. It is cases like this that gives meaning to our work.
Source: Halimah Yacob
Hi Gilbert
I’m 23 this year. A mother of one. I’ve just gotten myself a full time job last week.
Due to long period of unemployment, I have used up my savings for my daily expenses and for my child. My hubby is working too but he’s not earning much.
Basically, we split the cost of our child’s expenses. I was really in need of loan last week and couldn’t find any friends to help me. I even turned to family/relatives for help but I got turned down too.
I tried going to licensed money lenders but were rejected due to my unstable monthly income for the past 6 months.
Yesterday I came across this post on gumtree saying this guy is able to help with urgent loan, no income proof, no minimum monthly income needed.
Here’s the real shit, he needed me to get a new mobile plan and in return, he’ll compensate me $800. This guy took the high end plan at StarHub because the handset was free, so he just had to pay $35 for the SIM card activation.
After promising me to compensate me at 11pm yesterday, he went missing. Blocked my numbers etc and I’m stuck with the $220 bill monthly which I’ve to cover for him.
If I were to terminate the plan, I have to pay a termination fee of $1200.
Anonymous
Editor’s note: the victim has made a police report already. She makes $1700 a month.
Source: www.transitioning.org