ISKL International Club donates RM78,000 to Shelter

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International School of Kuala Lumpur presented a cheque for RM78,000 to Shelter home for children recently.

The money was raised during the Walk for the Children: 1Malaysia 2010 held at Taman Tasik Perdana in Kuala Lumpur last month.

Education Ministry deputy director (Private Sector) Mohamad Azmi Istamat presented the cheque to Shelter Home executive director James Nayagam on behalf of the international school.

Also present at the presentation ceremony, held at the school’s the Robert B. Gaw Theatre, was its International Club president Michael George, a senior and recently-accepted Harvard student.

Uniting youth: Participants of ISKL’s Walk for the Children held at Taman Tasik Perdana last month.

Appreciation plaques from ISKL were also presented to Dell’s representative Lee Kok Leong, Rhonda Scott from Allied Pickfords, Arjan Singh Ranjit Singh of Malayan Banking Berhad, deputy managing director of Century Total Logistics Sdn Bhd Dr Mohamad Amin Kassin, Loise Kam of HSBC Malaysia, and Sam Coleman, executive editor of Expatriate Lifestyle magazine, Mongoose Publishing Sdn Bhd.

The International Club is a student-led and student-run organisation at the International School of Kuala Lumpur (ISKL).

The Walk for the Children: 1Malaysia 2010 was its first fund-raising event for the Shelter Home (www.shelterhome.org), a registered, voluntary welfare organisation for children and teenagers who have been abandoned, neglected, orphaned or abused.

The walkathon was organised with the hope of uniting youth of all ages behind one banner to support a very worthy cause — the lives of disadvantaged youth in Malaysia.

George also said the Walk for the Children: 1Malaysia 2010, was the first fundraising event for the children by the children.

They are already preparing for next year’s event to be bigger with more collaboration from corporations, international and local schools nationwide.