www.ipohecho.com.my IPOH echoYour Community Newspaper Serving the people of Ipoh,echo Chemor, Sg.Siput,Taiping, Kuala Kangsar, Gopeng, ISSUE Kampar, Batu Gajah, Air Tawar, Sitiawan, Lumut and Teluk Intan. FREE for collection from our office and selected outlets, on 1st & 16th of the month. 30 sen for delivery to your house by news vendors within Perak. RM 1 prepaid postage for mailing within Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. 70 MARCH 16-31, 2009 PP 14252/10/2009(022651) NEWS POLITICAL COLOUR IPOH IN MESS IN SERGEANT BRIEF PERAK 3 6 4 9 THE SALVATION ARMY – EVERY CHILD MATTERS A Report by James Gough More pics at ipohecho on line Name: FRANCESSCA LEE Occupation: STUDENT The Salvation Army Children’s Home at Jalan Tuanku Hobbies: WATCHING TENNIS, Bainun (Jalan Kampar) celebrated the opening of a new ROCK MUSIC FROM THE 70s’ wing on its premises recently. The new block comes with its The quality I admire most: GENEROSITY Ambition: own bedrooms, living rooms, toilets and multipurpose rooms TO WORK WITH DEVELOPING complete with kitchen and dining facilities. COUNTRIES 2 IPOH ECHO March 16 - 31, 2009 Your Community Newspaper SALVATION ARMY REQUIRES NOT ONLY FUNDS BUT DONORS WHO APPRECIATE ITS ROLE IN SOCIETY. ONE BENEFACTOR WHO STANDS ABOVE THE REST IS KOON YEW YIN Guests celebrating with inmates of the Salvation Army Children’s Home girls and young boys, they children are orphans or also have a boys home some have only one par- in Tambun, an old folks ent. We must realise that home in Jelapang and a our survival depends on Salvation Army Church at others. Our very existence Wah Keong Park. All these from birth was the result facilities are open to poor of some others’ actions orphans, irrespective of and we survive everyday race or religion. in varying dependence After the opening on many people. There is Mr Koon Yew Yin celebration ceremonies, hardly a moment when we Ipoh Echo interviewed the do not benefit from what Captain Tong Yat Lam he addition of this 56, was brought to the patron, as well as repre- donor, Mr Koon Yew Yin others do for us e.g., some- Tnew wing was made school along with her two sentatives from the Perak who is a retired 76 year-old one must have purified the lect the students and what possible through the gen- brothers after their father Welfare Department. Chartered Civil Engineer water or produced the food is their obligation to you? erosity of Mr Koon Yew passed away. She recalls The Salvation Army and was one of the found- for us. Even Bill Gates Koon: I will help Yin who fully financed her strict and disciplined began in 1865 when ers of IJM Corporation needs people to produce needy students whose total the cost of the building, upbringing. Education was William Booth, a London Bhd and Gamuda Bhd. and buy his products. family monthly income is which is as big as the cur- always very important. minister, gave up the com- He was a member of We could not have less than RM2,000. They rent building. She completed her stud- fort of his pulpit and de- the Board of Engineers, accumulated wealth with- must pass the SPM with The Home, which ies at the Perak Chinese cided to take his message Malaysia, for 3 terms and a out the help of others. I reasonably good results started in 1947, was origi- High School nearby. Tong into the streets where it member of SIRIM for the believe that after I have so that they can gain entry nally located along Jalan is grateful to the Salvation would reach the poor, the writing of the Malaysian provided enough for all to the University Tungku Dr Raja Nazrin Shah Army as it has provided homeless, the hungry and Standards for Cement my dependents, I want to Abdul Rahman to study (Gopeng Road). It has her with an opportunity to the destitute. and Concrete. He was the spend all my money be- finance and accountancy. been providing residential lead a decent life. Today, The Salvation former Secretary General fore others spend it for me. I will help them finan- care for hundreds of needy “The Salvation Army Army is stronger and more of the Master Builders I want to give back the rest cially to complete a degree and underprivileged chil- strives to improve its powerful than ever. Now, in Association Malaysia for 9 of our money to help the course. dren for over 60 years. services and is extremely over 106 countries around years. He was also one of unfortunate; otherwise, They do not have to A testimony of the grateful to Mr Koon for the world, The Salvation the Directors of the Perak my life has no meaning. return the money I spent on good work done by the his generous support es- Army continues to work Community Specialist them and they do not have Home is told by Captain pecially during these dif- where the need is greatest, Hospital. Ipoh Echo: You said in to work for me when they Tong Yat Lam, now the ficult economic times.” guided by faith in God and Ipoh Echo: Why are your speech that you have qualify. They only have to Superintendent of the said Commissioner David love for all people. you donating RM 500,000 already given scholarships promise that they will help Perak Home for the Aged Bringans in his opening The Salvation Army for the construction of this to 40 poor students and needy students when they at Jelapang, another es- address. Other attend- started in Ipoh about 70 new building extension? you are willing to consider begin their working life. tablishment managed by ees included Dato Dr. years ago. Besides this Koon: I want to help helping more students. A noble deed and the Salvation Army. Tong, Majumder, a long-time Jalan Kampar home for poor children. Most of the Please tell us how you se- thought indeed. LETTER FROM ULU KINTA THE TROUBLE WITH MEN AND THE PROBLEM YMM writer’s email: [email protected] WITH WOMEN alaysia is no stranger nant force in our work- portion of girls are taking workplaces must adapt The notable rise in more stress and get easily to a female work- M place in the next decade. up options in science and changes in work-hours the professions cannot ex- depressed than if we were force. Ever since female The proportion of women technology based courses and patterns to suit women plain why there is a lack of told what to do by a strap- immigration from China is high (and steadily ris- at higher education level, with family responsibili- women reaching the top in ping hunk of a man. and India to the Malay ing), in an ever increas- whilst increasing numbers ties. Either that or they will politics, the councils, the For ages, we have Peninsula increased dra- ing array of professions of boys choose soft sub- risk losing these women to professional bodies or the blamed men for hindering matically from the early – teaching and education, jects like media, religious a rival or in extreme cases, police, for instance. Is it our careers, that they have 20th century, Chinese medicine, law, science, ar- studies and the arts. cause them to drop out of the work-life balance issue made it difficult for us to and Indian women have chitecture and engineering. Women make more the employment market al- again? Or is it the fact that achieve gender equality played a major role in the Encouragingly, the more suitable candidates for a together. we women can be our own in the workplace and that economic growth of early traditional male bastions variety of jobs because Nevertheless we must worst enemies? Some of they only treat us a pretty Malaya. They joined the of medicine and engineer- they have a wide range of seriously address the fall- us easily permit our petty face, good for preparing labour force as paid or ing are now dominated by skills and achieve better ing numbers of males into jealousies to get in the way meals and procreation. unpaid workers in the tin women. academic qualifications. areas of education and the of our careers. Those arguments mines, the agricultural sec- In schools and uni- They excel at teamwork, professions. Although men In a study by sci- won’t wash anymore and tor, as domestic helpers versities, girls easily excel leadership skills, com- should be praised for in- entists at the University we have to get over this and in prostitution. In cer- and overtake boys in their munication and emotional creasingly taking greater of Toronto, it was found last hurdle because year- tain parts of the country, studies. Contrast this with intelligence. They also responsibility in running that women prefer to be in, year-out, we have indigenous Malay women the late 19th century when exhibit better resilience the home and bringing told what to do by men consistently outperformed were already prominent as Malay girls only gained and integrity. Men, on the up children, more must (we’ve been so used to this the boys in education. traders and in the textile access to formal educa- other hand, have mainly be done to support boys throughout the millennia Despite that, there exists weaving industry. tion in 1885, and 50 years relied on their powers of at school, engage them in so why bother to change?). a wide pay gap between For generations, wom- later, there were 150 girls intellectual ability or their education and raise their Also, the Queen Bee the sexes and a dearth of en in modern Malaysia schools in Malaya and a physical strength.