DEN Social Welfare Foundation Taiwan plans to present 100 free wheelchairs to deserving recipients in Malaysia through its “Love Without Borders” Wheelchair Donation 2018 campaign. The offer is open from now until March 1 and applications should be sent to the Eden Handicap Service Centre Penang branch.

Goh Hann Kheng was filled with euphoria at an early Chinese New Year celebration at the Taman Lip Sin Community Welfare Association in Penang. “I feel happy getting to dance to Chinese New Year music,” he said.

“The fear of not being able to navigate busy, cluttered and visually oriented environments is a major barrier to participation in normal life,” says Meere, 52. That’s what makes an innovative project at the city’s Southern Cross train station so important to him.

It takes a trained eye to identify a child with dyslexia and, more often than not, many are passed off as lazy or unintelligent. In Malaysia, only one per cent of the schools have teachers trained to deal with such students. There are also concerns that many children with dyslexia may not be identified early enough.

THE ninth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF9) is currently ongoing at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. The conference, the largest United Nations conference on sustainable urban development and cities, runs until Tuesday (Feb 13). It is convened by UN-Habitat, the United Nations Programme on Human Settlements, and held in different cities every two years.

And yes, I’m writing this piece in the run-up to World Rare Disorders Day, which falls on Feb 28, to drum up awareness about the need for continued research into rare disorders and the need for support for those living with these challenges – including the caregivers of those fighting rare disorders.

DocMove, which is accessible via Facebook and mobile health applications, provides consistent health and medical services to the elderly. Doctors or paramedics make house visits and do basic health checkups and services every month and even update the children of the elderly on their well-being.

The family of bedridden N. Suresh Kumar, 51, is relieved that a private home has agreed to take him in thanks to the assistance of Negri Sembilan MCA publicity head Dafney Ho.

A welfare association in Klang that provides shelter for 80 special children and adults is in dire need of help in cash or kind.

In 2016, Malaysian Paralympians won the first golds for our country at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. That year marked a proud moment as they returned home bearing 3 gold and 1 bronze from the international sporting event.