Majlis Kanser Nasional (MAKNA) or National Cancer Council is a Malaysian non-profit organization. Their main objective is to “pool and utilise all efforts, expertise and finance from all sectors of the society, to fight cancer and reduce related pain, morbidity and the suffering that cancer patients undergo”.
One of the reasons is that I was approached by a girl when I was at the post office a few months ago. She was manning the booth together with a few other people. They were there to promote and educate the public of MAKNA’s work. They also urge the public to donate to MAKNA through monthly “instalments”. She told me that by donating as little as RM30 a month, they were able to cover their expenses for one of their patients (for a period of time — it’s been some time and I don’t remember the details). However, due to my financial constraints at that moment, I was not able to do so.
Therefore, when I heard of Blogathon, I knew this was my chance to help MAKNA and somehow give back to the society. Earlier, I didn’t dare to set a goal too big. I wanted to try and raise maybe USD100 or equivalent to roughly RM300+ only. Then I realized that I’m not doing this for myself but for the cancer patients and MAKNA. That’s when I raised my goal to RM1,000 or equivalent to about USD300+.
A big thank you to Lilian and Ahpek for pledging USD50 each early this evening to help MAKNA.
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