Author name: El Centro Keskie

Yayasan Suria JB (YSJB) – We are a colour-blind NGO! Recently, with so many hate speeches touching on race/religion in Malaysia, let me inform you that being a volunteer, we serve everyone, irrespective of race/religion. This has been our track record, organizing many food aid programs for everyone. Indeed, I have volunteers whom I have […]

Yayasan Suria JB (YSJB) – A super duper busy day of charity in Johor Bahru! Started at 10.00 am and ended at 10.00 pm today. What a day it has been! On the way to the office at Johor Jaya, I dropped by at Seri Alam to buy stationary for the office, quick detour to

Yayasan Suria JB (YSJB) – Collaborating with our synergy partner for Pakistan flood relief! Since YSJB could not be there in Pakistan to help out, we teamed up with Ihsan Johor in terms of financial aid and other logistic matters to make their mission a success. What are friends for! Ihsan Johor has been our

Yayasan Suria JB (YSJB) – The survival of NGOs is at stake! With the many factors at play during this present hard economic times, many which are beyond our control, NGOs are finding hard to survive with income dropping by some 50% compared to those good times some 3 years ago. Many people have fallen

Yayasan Suria JB (YSJB) – To serve and not to be served! Training volunteers to learn the ropes in all aspects of volunteering is never an easy task. Today, at YSJB, we achieved another milestone where a volunteer (we have 2 today, 13/10/2022) wrote in his own experiences how to do reporting of the day’s

Yayasan Suria JB (YSJB) – Deepavali (24/10/2022) – Behind the scenes! Further to my post regarding the above, there has been a lot of planning & logistics involved to feed 1,000 people and give away 200 food banks – all done behind the scenes by our hard-working volunteers who rise to the occasion each time

Yayasan Suria JB (YSJB) – Leveraging each other’s strength! Over at YSJB, we have built up a team of great volunteers over the years where, literally, we can do anything and everything and never take NO for an answer. It is hard work, patience and persistence to be able produce a formidable team of volunteers

Yayasan Suria JB (YSJB) – We are volunteers in Johor Bahru! Lately, we have been getting a lot of inquiries as to what YSJB actually does from many people as we drive our Toyota Hilux around, covering some 5,000 km a month. Curious looks as we stop at traffic lights and when we park our

Yayasan Suria JB (YSJB) – An outing for paralysed girl, Har Li Jun to celebrate her big achievement! On 14/9/2022, I wrote in my diary post “Never give up!” and as promised, 5 volunteers took her for shopping & lunch in 2 vehicles today (20/9/2022). https://www.facebook.com/1513241468889521/posts/3280388742174776/ We started from MK Eldercare Home at Kg Melayu

Yayasan Suria JB (YSJB) – Does RM30.00 mean a lot to you? Perhaps not for all of you reading my diary post. But to some, it means the world to them. Let me relate this story which has just unfolded. I was about to take my bath upon reaching home today (earlier than usual today