"The greatest of suffering is feeling alone, abandoned by all"
Mother Teresa
Rumah Ozanam is a non profit organisation in Malaysia, which has as a goal, since 2001, to take care of women afflicted by AIDS. This place sheltered more than 175 women and children from all background (Mynmar, Indian, Chinese, ...) and from any religion. Each year, a french volunteer is sent by the Paris Foreign Missions, in order to support this home, help the staff and taking care of the patients as a nurse.
The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul
Created in 1830 by students from the University of Paris La Sorbonne, concerned on paying visit to the deprived, the “Society of Saint Vincent de Paul” quickly mushrooms. Differents shelters were funded in Paris, then in the whole of France to finally develop in other countries. Despite of their goals (taking care of the less privilages, prisoners, AIDS infected persons, ...) they are build around the Saint Vincent de Paul way of thinking : give everything to the poor.
Nowadays, the “Society of Saint Vincent de Paul”, has 800.000 voluntaries in 45000 conferences distributed in 150 countries.
Batu Arang
A Small village, approximatly fourty-five minutes drive from north of Kuala Lumpur, Batu Arang (“the black diamond”) was once a coal mining town. But now, only the name of the place reminds of its past activity. Located in the valley surronded by forest, you will have to travel the meandering road, or nicknamed "monkey road" (due to the hundred of monkeys seen along this road) to reach this place, and shall discover a village where many races and cultures are mix, as seen in Malaysia : a Hindu temple, a white house built in front of small Chinese temple, a church … and finally our shelter.
