Second Chance shelter home
Our Pertubuhan Kesihatan dan Kebajikan Umum Malaysia (PKKUM) HIV Second Chance shelter home running a very critical situation where our regular funder unable to fund our shelter home the reason being said is this year they more focusing on very low-income countries outside of Malaysia. Pertubuhan Kesihatan dan Kebajikan Umum Malaysia (PPKUM) were shortlisted for the grant but unfortunately, we did not manage to secure the fund. It is now mid-year of 2019, we already used our saving money to cover our expenses from January - June 2019. Now we are seeking for emergency financial support to who understands and willing to support HIV patient shelter home.
The real situation in Malaysia regards to HIV shelter home were very regret to say that our Malaysia Government not supporting HIV shelter home. One of the reason given by the Ministry of Health of Malaysia (MOH) is that they only focusing on HIV prevention and not the shelter home. During the meeting with MOH collaboration with Malaysian Aids Council (MAC), they advised us to discuss with the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development and when we approached them pertaining on this matter, sadly they told us that HIV is not under their jurisdiction.
At the time being our HIV Second Chance Shelter Home caters 15 resident. 7 are badly affected by the virus and in need of the personal caretaker for daily care and for emergency purposes i.e. hospital visit during an emergency.
The urgency to get financial support because they are now 3 caretakers and we need to pay their salary and they are severely affected community living at our shelter home that needs more attention and care.
To make sure everything is running smoothly as usual and as before, we need to find a new donor to support our HIV work and the most important part is for our caretaker to continue doing their job on taking care of disabled HIV patient at the shelter home.
Provide services:
- Shelter home rental
- Utilities (Electricity bills, water bills, Internet bills, etcetera)
- To commute HIV patient for their regular health checkup and during the emergency (transportation fee)
- Caretakers salary
- Foods and beverages and other basic necessities
It is our hope at PKKUM Second Chance HIV Shelter Home to get the financial support to caters the shelter home needs and we can take care of our severely HIV affected, homeless and other key population community from the first day their registered to our shelter home until their Rest in Peace.
It is our wish and best interest to ensure that all of our residents will not end up as homeless again.
Furthermore, it is our goal in line with the National Strategic Plan endings AIDS of which prevention is better than cure by ensuring that all of our residents being taken care of without prejudice, stigma & discrimination.
