MERCY Malaysia
Introduction
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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.
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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.
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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
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MERCY Malaysia was founded by Dr Jemilah Mahmood
in 1999 in response to the conflict in Kosovo.
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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.
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Working with Helping Hands USA, MERCY Malaysia
then sent a total of five missions to Kosova to provide mobile medical care.
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That same year, MERCY Malaysia sent relief
mission teams to Turkey in response to the 1999 Izmit earthquake.
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