Through work and research by the Council of Social Service and myself, we have compiled this list of NGOs which we believe would be good partners for our club’s Community and Vocational projects.

There are four main Categories for classifying the NGO services:
Children and Youth
Family and Community
Elderly Service
Rehabilitation Service

Goals of this Data Bank
1. We hope each club will at least try to contact one or more of these NGOs and look at possibilities of assisting these NGOs with their work.
2. These NGOs have various projects that require aid, sponsorship and also hands-on involvement, so it can be a very convenient way for Clubs to take part in some meaningful projects without having to start them from scratch.
3. At the end of the Rotary year, both the District and Council of Social Services would like to acknowledge those clubs who have been involved in partnerships with these NGOs on the list.
4. The Council of Social Service also has Media coverage and a Public Relationship Department which are most willing to promote any partnerships with our Rotary club in projects in the District.
5. The Council of Social Service and the district project chairperson can also provide liaison with and answer enquiries from any club wanting to work with a target group.
6. We hope to build up this data bank as one of the main sources of information from the District for the Clubs
7. We will also report projects that have been reported back to the District Project Chairperson: PP Grace Young of Rotary club of Mid Level.
8. We also hope to create a statistical report by the end of this Rotary year to review the projects in the four main categories shown below.

How we selected the NGO list:
Among the hundreds of NGOs that we have studied, we have based our selection on the following criteria:
1. NGOs which are not well funded and would need help from outside resources.
2. NGOs with an expenditure of mostly less than 3 million a year. Some do have a higher annual expenditure but the majority of the NGO’s we have selected do not.
3. NGOs which do not have plenty of man-power support and would need external hands-on help for some projects.
4. Many of the NGOs we have selected are what we called Self Help group organization.
5. We have made our selection according to four focus Categories and our selection is divided almost evenly between these categories.
6. More newly established NGOs that are involved with the most pressing needs of the society.

For further information contact:
Grace Young: gyoung@netvigator.com
my phone: 9260 1955
and also my fax: 2510 9098