Malaysia Endowment Activity

July-August-September 2002 Newsletter

The Manjung Ashram in Sitiawan, Malaysia, is an orphanage founded six years ago by the Manjung Hindu Sangam. Today, 30 children are being raised there with much love by a dedicated team composed of manager Tiru Aramban and several volunteers. Religious activities include daily prayers, temple attendence once a week and on all festival days, plus religious classes on weekends. The ashram recently purchased a van so the children could be conveniently taken to public school. Tiru Aramban plans to eventually build a three-story building for the residents.

Average monthly expenses for one resident amount to RM 2,500, which includes food, medical expenses, accommodation, transportation and wages for a caretaker cum cook. As a volunteer organization, the Ashram needs much support from kind-hearted souls to meet its many commitments in helping these children who are orphans or victims of abuse.There is much to provide to maintain their health, comfort, sense of being at home and happiness in general. Every gesture of kindness helps these children mature into self-dependent, self-confident, well ajusted beings totally and positively integrated into the community.

HHE fund #53, established to support this most worthy institution, has a current balance of US$13,685.34. In March 2002, Manjung Ashram was issued a grant worth RM1,900 from this fund.

Also benefiting Malaysian children is HHE fund #16 established in 1996 by Arjunan Subramaniam, an attorney in Kuala Lumpur. It is known as the Malaysian Hindu Youth Educational Trust and provides free and wide distribution of the Saivite Hindu Religion Children's Courses to Malaysia's Hindu Children. To date, hundreds of copies have been distributed throughout Malaysia. The fund has a balance of US$10,230.07.

Memorial Funds

Establishing a memorial fund at Hindu Heritage Endowment can, in addition to honoring a deceased loved one, provide permanent financial support to the loved one's favorite Hindu institutions, perhaps a temple in the town in which he was raised, an orphanage or a swami's ashram that he supported. Because of HHE's unique global reach, the beneficiary institutions can be in any country in the world. Two of our current memorial funds are described below.

The Sundari Peruman Memorial Fund was started by Markandeya and Ravi Peruman, husband and son of Sundari, both now living in California. The Fund welcomes donations from anyone who loved or admired Sundari Peruman. The endowment is dedicated to teaching Hindu children in America about their religion. Another memorial fund is the A. Shanmugam Family Fund, created by Bala Shanmugam of Ipoh, Malaysia, in honor of his father. Bala's mother, Sambugardevi, and other members of the family joined in to establish the fund. This endowment gives a yearly grant to the Abirami Amman Temple at Thirukadaiyur, South India, which in turn performs a monthly archana to the family.

Recent Endowment Contributions

MISSION STATEMENT

Hindu Heritage Endowment is a publicly supported, charitable organization recognized as tax exempt by the IRS on April 22, 1994. Employer ID 99-0308924. Founded by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, its philanthropic mission is to provide secure, professionally managed financial support for institutions and religious leaders of all lineages of Sanatana Dharma.

PROFESSIONAL ADVISORS

Halbert/Hargrove, Investment Counsel; Sonoda & Isara, LLP, CPA. HHE is a member of the Council on Foundations, an association of more than 2,000 foundations which interprets relevant law and management and investment principles, and of the National Committee on Planned Giving, the voice and professional resource for the gift planning community.

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You may send your gift to an existing fund, create a new Endowment or request information through the address below.

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