KULUNGAN INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION

 

 

THIS FOUNDATION is formed to strategize especially for the Malaysian Natives’ wellbeing, progress (mainly through socio-economic empowerment) and success. This challenging task is taken due to the following rationales:

 

1.    The outpouring of blessings had been granted on us following more than a decade of struggles and prayers, and we KNOW in no uncertain terms that the fund was not obtained through our  power but through the power and privilege from God. It is not our money, but God’s and has been passed through us for a task which we know is a Divine Assignment;

 

2.    The Natives of Sabah need to be saved from prolonged shadows and curses and cycles of poverty and abject poverty which have subjected them to a shame and debilitation, and prevented them  from benefitting from countless opportunities to progress in life;

 

3.    The children of Natives of Malaysia, while benefitting from various government programs, such benefits are few and far between and only given as tokens to appease and placate them. The reality is that they are severely disadvantaged and are heading towards a bleak future due to the following reasons:

 

    3.1    Being of poor native background, they are discriminated against in various arenas,             especially in the scholarship awards, placements in institutions of higher learning,                government jobs, and even subsidies and loans;

 

    3.2    Most of them are very poor and residing in the interior regions of the state, even in             villages without the normal amenities such as roads, electricity and running water               supply, hence without radios and TVs;

 

    3.3   Too many native pupils drop out of school after completing primary (elementary)                 schools because of poverty. Many leave school to get married at the age of as                     young as 15 and perpetuate the vicious cycles of poverty;

 

    3.4   The are severely deprived of health services, in part due to the often                                insurmountable distances of their villages from hospitals – reachable only through              days of boat rides, travel on foot, and by gravel roads. In such areas, women  in                labor have to be left to the skills of the village midwives which lack professional                   training or modern medical facilities in cases of difficult deliveries; and

 

    3.5   The new generation of Natives are forced to compete with the more aggressive                   immigrants who reside in the urban areas and thus enjoy access to numerous                     facilities, and are given priority for assistance, while the Native children grow up in             comparative ignorance in their remote and isolated jungle villages.

 

4.    The Natives are in urgent need of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to enable them to take quantum leaps in development, in order for them to escape the age-old doldrums; 

 

5.    The Foundation will be able to give them a sense of hope, and to educate them towards self-reliance and progress, and thus together create a new chapter in their history;  

 

6.    The Foundation’s efforts will contribute meaningfully to the progress of Malaysia; and

 

7.    We believe the funds available can be regenerated through international investments so as to be inexhaus-tible, hence there is no reason not to spend it in the wisest and godly way –  to help the underprivileged Na-tives of Sabah to become empowered and rise to be leaders in the community of other ethnic groups in their own motherland, and to be leaders of commerce and industry at the new global stage