-The mother is not working now; breadwinner role is assumed by Gnanam andmaybe the sister who works too.
3 December 2009
-After the return from our trip to Melaka today, at about 9.30pm we (Sekar, myself and Sunny) dropped Gnanam back to his Taman. I had driven off with Sunny toTaman Manjalara for supper when I received an SOS from Gnanam seeking help :He did not have any money as his salary for November 09 will only be paid nextweek. When he went up to his apartment, he found the mother did not cook theevening meal for the children – reason: no money to buy food. So after a quick supper with Sunny, I ordered take away for them and parted with RM100 cash toGnanam. His sisters and the young brother were with him and I am sure that theyhave not eaten. With a look of genuine concern (he and his sisters), he informedthat the money will be given to his mother.-Therefore, how best to tackle the state of affairs for this family? Is there a welfareorganization that you can address their problem?
Trip to Melaka
-It was a “mission accomplished” trip – we managed to get the copy of SchoolLeaving Certificate and copy of his PMR results which were good too. Originallywe wanted Gnanam to personally make the trip on his own to get whatever documents he had. Apart from the monetary constraints we felt it was required of us to go the last leg and made sure the trip was not wasted :1)without our persistence to the school staff who were indifferent to the requestand the last-minute request-action perhaps due to the fact that they were aboutto go off for their school break (understandably) I think Gnanam will havegone there and came back empty-handed. I had to write a letter to the schooloffice seeking their kind assistance and it helped.2)Even if Gnanam went by bus to Melaka, the distance to his school/welfarehome would be so time-consuming and the time wasted in moving aroundwould have meant that he would have returned to KL empty-handed.3)The above would really jeopardize his chances for A-Levels intake nextmonth as submission of documents to your good office would have beenincomplete.4)There was no record of his sporting achievements as the Co-CurriculumTeacher has left the school already.5)We has to rushed from Kepong to Melaka at almost 3.00pm as Gnanam didnot get management approval for early leave from work. His work functions besides sales promotion was also to handle cash collections and reportsubmissions. We got a bit impatient waiting for him since 1.00pm but he wasapologetic to us to let him finish his report submission before making the trip.
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