Help the Palestinians

The invasion of Gaza is completing its second week, leaving 778 Palestinians dead and 3,250 injured since the Israeli offensive began on December 27. More than 200 Palestinian children are among the dead (Al-Jazeera).

This is a plea forwarded personally by Write Away author, the accomlished Elviza Michele, who volunteers at Mercy Malaysia.

Mercy Malaysia has, on 30th December 2008, formed an Emergency Response Assessment Team to face the humanitarian crisis in Gaza strip. The team has been promptly dispatched to Egypt led by President, Datuk Dr.  Jemilah Mahmood and Exco Member Norazam Ab. Samah. Therefore, Mercy Malaysia appeals to generous Malaysians to send it cash donations. Contributions will support Mercy Malaysia to procure emergency surgical kits, medicines and hospital equipments to help the hospitals in Gaza. 

• Cheque is to be made payable to “MERCY MALAYSIA” and addressed to Mercy Malaysia, Level 2, Podium Block, City Point, Kompleks Dayabumi, Jalan Sultan Hishamuddin, 50050 Kuala Lumpur.
• Cash donations can be made via on-line transmission or deposit at CIMB Bank Account No: 1424-000-6561053.
• Donation form can be downloaded from here. 
• Further enquiries are to be directed to +603-22733999 or info@mercy.org.my

Mercy Malaysia is a well-established humanitarian aid organisation, specialising in delivering much-needed medical relief to war-torn and disaster-struck areas. It’s one of the few organisations in the country that publishes its annual accounts so be assured that your money will be utilised as intended.

There’ll be more posts on the war in Gaza. In the meantime, let’s say our prayers for the victims, and do what we immediately can to help, via donations, keeping attention on the issue, or raising awareness and outrage.

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Help the World – Criminalise War

The Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War is an organisation in which I’ve personally volunteered and which needs a lot of support, financial and publicity-wise, to realise its efforts to criminalise all wars and promote civilised dialogue and negotiations as a means to resolve conflict. In other words, war, except for self-defence, should be made illegal in international law.

TIRED OF PEACE CHANTS? NOT SURE WHAT TO DO? THEN JOIN US IN OUR DETERMINED EFFORTS TO CRIMINALISE WAR AND PUNISH THE WAR MONGERS.

Support our cause to criminalise war.

The Founder and Chairman of The Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War (KLFCW) is Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad (the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia). It is a non-governmental organisation established under the laws of Malaysia on the 12th day of March 2007. Since its establishment, KLFCW has organised a number of activities aimed at contributing to the Foundation’s voluntary work to create awareness amongst the general public, that war as an instrument of foreign policy is a crime, that war is a crime against humanity, against peace and against the whole mankind and should be outlawed and criminalised, its perpetrators brought to justice and publicly sanctioned.

The main objectives of the Foundation, as stated in its Statutes are, inter alia,

• To undertake all necessary measures and initiatives to criminalise war and energise peace;

• To provide relief, assistance and support to individuals and communities who are suffering from the effects of war and armed conflict wherever occurring and without discrimination on the grounds of nationality, racial origin, religion, belief, age, gender or other forms of impermissible differentiations;

• To promote the education of individuals and communities suffering from the effects of war or armed conflict;

• To foster schemes for the relief of human suffering occasioned by war or armed conflict;

• To provide for mechanisms or procedures in attainment of the above purposes.

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We should be:

UNITED: in the belief that peace is the essential condition for the survival and well-being of the human race,

DETERMINED: to promote peace and save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,

OUTRAGED: over the frequent resort to war in the settlement of disputes between nations,

DISTURBED: that militarists are preparing for more wars,

TROUBLED: that use of armed force increases insecurity for all, and

TERRIFIED: that the possession of nuclear weapons and the imminent risk of nuclear war will lead to the annihilation of life on earth.

We should:

IMPLEMENT this Initiative,

OPPOSE policies and programmes that incite war, and

SEEK the cooperation of NGOs worldwide to achieve the goals of this Initiative.

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For more info please visit: http://www.criminalisewar.com/contributions.html

Please register & join in our petition so that we can get number of people on database that agrees with our objectives to “CRIMINALISE WAR AND ENERGISE PEACE” and use that info to send to all the leaders of the world to say this is what we want.

Our Chairman speaks out on war, watch the video: http://www.criminalisewar.org/blog/2008/12/tun-mahathir-speaks-out-on-war.html

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KLFCW needs your continuing strong support to Criminalise War and to Energise Peace.

For Malaysian Residents:

All donations are tax-exempt under S.44 Of The Income Tax Act 1967. Ref LHDN 01/35/42/51/179-6.6183 Government Gazette: 11643 Dated 30.08.2007

Made payable to:
KL FOUNDATION TO CRIMINALISE WAR INCORP.

Maybank Account Number:  5123 3430 3483

or Send your cheque/Bank Draft/Money Order/Postal Order to:

Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War
No. 1, Jalan P8H, Precinct 8, Putrajaya,
62250 Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia.
Tel: 60 3 8777 2525
Fax: 60 3 8777 2929
Email: info@criminalisewar.com

For transfer and bank in, please fax or email us the transfer and bank in slip, along with your detail

Any amount is accepted but hard copy receipts will be automatically issued via post to donations above (Malaysia Ringgit) RM100.00, otherwise soft copy receipts will be issued via email by request.

Donations above (Malaysia Ringgit) RM150.00 will receive official merchandise.

Please do not forget to state your full name and address for us to send an official receipt and merchandise.

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For International Donors:

All donations for the Foundation are to be made to:
KL FOUNDATION TO CRIMINALISE WAR INCORP.

And Transferred to:

Maybank Account Number:  5123 3430 3483

Bank Address:
Maybank Berhad
SECTION 14, PJ SSC
18A, Jalan 14/14,
46100 Petaling Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Malaysia

Swift Code: MBBEMYKL

Any amount is accepted but hard copy receipts will be automatically issued via post to donations above (Malaysia Ringgit) RM200.00, otherwise soft copy receipts will be issued via email by request.

Donations above (Malaysia Ringgit) RM300.00 will receive official merchandise.

Please do not forget to state your full name and address for us to send an official receipt and merchandise.

All donations will be used to fund our efforts to Criminalise War and assist war victims.

Please forward this to all peace loving people, join us to Criminalise War and Energise Peace, and remember to register with us.

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