Prior Fom gRANTS 

Over the last 25 years, FoM has contributed over $24,000 to Malaysian-related charities. 

2024

• $1,000 to " The Art Therapy Academy" to expand access to its programs of art therapy for persons experiencing trauma and depression to low-income Malaysians. 

• $500 to "SAMA (Spay Adopt Manage Assist)" a charitable organization that provides shelter and veterinary services for abandoned cats and dogs in Penang.

2022

• $500 to "Urban Life Volunteers" for help support poor, aged trishaw drivers.

2021

• An additional $500 to "Naz/Kids" for the continuation of the mask-making program.

• $1000 to the "National Cancer Society of Malaysia" for housing for people who traveled to Kuala Lumpur for outpatient cancer treatments.

• $500 to the "Museum of the Peace Corps Experience" support the museum to highlight, through artifacts, the culture of host nations and the experience and impact on Peace Corps Volunteers.

• 2020

• $500 to "Reef Check – Malaysia" to provide 3 water purifiers on a Malaysian island to reduce plastic bottle trash that was ending up in the nearby ocean reef.

• $500 to "Naz/Kids" to support a program for unemployed women to make Covid-19 masks for low-income Malaysians.

• 2019

• $500 to "Malaysia Nature Society" for a raptor counting project.

• $750 to "Hip Hop Dance Project" to teach English through dance.

• $1,000 to "Light Up Borneo" to support a hydroelectric generator to provide electricity for an isolated jungle village.

• 2018

• $300 to "The Borneo Project" to support projects to assist indigenous peoples

• $500 to "National Cancer Society of Malaysia" for children's cancer project

• 2017

• $750 to Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (Jolene Hernandez) to support program to teach English through dance.

• $300 to "Women's Aid Organization" to provide refuge for abused women.

• $250 to "Global Robotics Olympics" for a reception for Malaysians secondary school students and teachers who traveled to Washington, DC to compete. 

• $300 to Tenaganita for assistance to refugees to Malaysia

• 2016

• $200 to support production of "A Towering Task," a documentary film on history of Peace Corps

• $500 to Worldwide Fund for Nature (Malaysia) for planning for ecotourism in Malaysia

• $100 to "Jamerson Memorial Library" to support a book analyzing Malaysia in memory of Barry Morris, FoM president

• 2015

• $840 to Malaysian Red Crescent Society to support east coast flood relief (see press release)

• $250 to Fulbright English Teaching Assistant to fund project using drama to teach English.

• 2014

• $200 to "Global Diversity Foundation" to support Ulu Papar Bio-Cultural Foundation.

• $200 to "Malaysia American Foundation" to support educational and cultural exchange.

 Prior Donations to Charitable Organizations in Malaysia

• Breast Cancer Welfare Association of Malaysia (East Malaysia) $4,545 for training equipment, tuition and travel expenses for two nurses and to assist with expenses to organize a Pink Charity Run.

• The Borneo Project (Sarawak) Purchased a small hydroelectric generator for a longhouse.  $3,000

• National Cancer Society of West Malaysia.  Provided free breast screening procedures to 29 low-income women.  $1,300

• Kadazan School - Purchased a computer for a rural Kadazan school (Sabah).  $1,000

• Hemodialysis Association of Klang (Selangor).  Assist with the purchase of equipment.  $500

• World Wise Schools (USA).  Assist with the program to provide information about world culture to American school children.  $500

•  Sending Aloha Abroad (USA).  Assist with the funding of a documentary film about the first Peace Corps Volunteers who went on to serve in Malaysia after training in Hawaii.  $305

• National Peace Corps Association (USA).  Assist with the upgrade expenses of NPCA membership software. $300

• Hospice Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur).  Assist with palliative care training.  $278

• Heritage Foundation (Kuala Lumpur).  Assist with the building of an example of a headman's house.  $250

• Doctors Without Borders (Haiti).  Assist with earthquake efforts.  $250

•  The Borneo Project (Sarawak).  Assist with the cost of providing legal aid to indigenous people of East Malaysia.  $250

• The Borneo Project (East Malaysia).  Purchased children's books written in the Penan language.  $250

• Humana Child Aid Society (Sabah).  Assist with the operational cost of a school for the children of guestworkers.  $150

Non-Cash Contributions

Friends of Malaysia co-sponsored a reading program in the US on International Children's Day featuring Malaysian children's folktales.  Stories were read by more than 40 returned Peace Corps Volunteers in more than 30 states reaching 3,500 elementary school students.  Children learned about Malaysian culture and Peace Corps experiences.

Friends of Malaysia was contacted by a 4th grade teacher in New Hampshire who had a new student from Malaysia.  The student spoke very little English so the teacher requested some children's books in the Malaysian language to ease the transition to learning English.  FOM members were able to provide several books for the student.