MERCY Malaysia
Introduction
· MERCY Malaysia or
Medical Relief Society is a non-profit organization focusing on providing
medical relief, sustainable health related development and risk reduction
activities for vulnerable communities in both crisis and non-crisis situations.
· As a non-profit
organization, MERCY Malaysia relies solely on funding and donations from
organizations and generous individuals to continue their services to provide
humanitarian assistance to beneficiaries, both in Malaysia and abroad.
· The organization
is a registered society according to the Societies Act (1996) in Malaysia, and
the headquarters is based in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur.
To date, MERCY Malaysia has over 500 members
in the society and approximately 5,000 registered volunteers in its database.
Early history
· MERCY Malaysia was
founded by Dr Jemilah Mahmood in 1999 in response to the conflict in Kosovo.
· Finding no
pre-existing organization that could sponsor her to volunteer her medical
services there, she and a group of friends registered MERCY Malaysia with the
Registrar of Societies with the objective of providing medical relief.
· Working with
Helping Hands USA, MERCY Malaysia then sent a total of five missions to Kosova
to provide mobile medical care.
· That same year,
MERCY Malaysia sent relief mission teams to Turkey in response to the 1999
Izmit earthquake.
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