KUALA LUMPUR - MERCY Malaysia received another helping hand through Berjaya Corporations’ donation of RM500,000 in conjunction with the Berjaya Founder’s Day celebration at Berjaya Times Square on 25 February 2012. This is the second year running in which MERCY Malaysia has received a sizeable donation from Berjaya Corporations following last year’s contribution by Berjaya Cares Foundation.

MERCY Malaysia’s Honorary Treasurer, Ir. Amran Mahzan was on hand to receive the donation at the ceremony.

MERCY Malaysia President, Dato’ Dr Ahmad Faizal Perdaus, said “We could not thank Berjaya Corporation enough for their continued support of MERCY Malaysia. The care and compassion shown by corporate bodies as well as the public, whether through volunteerism or donation, is a huge motivating factor for us”.

“MERCY Malaysia will utilise this valuable contribution to expand our humanitarian efforts in on-going domestic and international projects. We are looking to channel some of the fund to our mobile clinic project in the Philippines as well as our water filtration project in Thailand” he added.

According to Dr Faizal, the rest of the fund will be put into the MERCY Malaysia General Humanitarian Fund, which is the standard channel to generate reserve funds for future disasters as well as strengthening local disaster preparedness.

Since its inception in 1999, MERCY Malaysia has continued to be at the forefront of emergency response to and recovery from natural disasters and conflict situation as well as disaster risk reduction as recently highlighted with missions to Somalia, Philippines and Pakistan, among others. For more information about our latest activities, please visit www.mercy.org.my, or join our Fan page in Facebook. 

Concerned individuals and organisations can donate to the MERCY Malaysia Fund through the following bank accounts:

MAYBANK (account name: MERCY HUMANITARIAN FUND, account number: 5621-7950-4126, ABA Swift Code: MBBEMYKLA), or CIMB Bank (account name: MERCY Malaysia, account number: 1424-000-6561053, ABA Swift Code: CIBBMYKL).

Donations via cheque are payable to MERCY MALAYSIA

To donate online, please visit www.mercy.org.my

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About MERCY Malaysia

MERCY Malaysia is a non-profit organisation focusing on providing medical relief, sustainable health related development and risk reduction activities for vulnerable communities in both crisis and noncrisis situations. MERCY Malaysia recognises the value of working with partners and volunteers as well as providing opportunities for individuals to serve with professionalism. We uphold the Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief and hold ourselves accountable to our donors and beneficiaries. As a non-profit organisation, MERCY Malaysia relies solely on funding and donations from organisations and generous individuals to continue our services to provide humanitarian assistance to our beneficiaries.