Community Events

Yayasan Suria JB(YSJB) – Helping others is just so difficult for some! Sounds strange? No, it’s a reality in life after having been in this volunteer business for some 35 years. I am unsure why but, based on my experiences, it is perhaps in the genetic make-up. People just can’t let go of what they […]

Yayasan Suria JB (YSJB) wants to thank you for being our synergy partner in bringing hope & Lve to the Poor and Needy for the past 10 years. Together, we can make this world a better place to live for everyone, especially those in the B40 group! Today, 5th December is International Volunteer Day Below

Yayasan Suria JB (YSJB) – Education is the key to bringing the Poor out of poverty! Since our inception some 10 years ago(14th Sept, 2012), YSJB has always believed in educating the Poor so that we can lift them out of poverty. We have a BTS(Back To School) program where we purchase uniforms, shoes, socks,

Yayasan Suria JB (YSJB) – You don’t need a reason to do something good! This was the question that baffles volunteers joining us as volunteers for the first time as they see us diligently going about helping the Poor & Needy, our clients. Not only that – our neighbors around us who are doing business

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