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Posted: 16 Oct 2011 11:23 PM PDT

KUALA LUMPUR: Families with incomes below or at the poverty level should take advantage of the Community Builders Foundation (CBF) programme, which has been set up to provide preschool education for children below five years old.

Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk G. Palanivel said the CBF, which was set up by him, was designed to look and help children who had been missing out on early childhood or kindergarten education.

"I want local MIC leaders to identify poor families with such children so that I can help them from the start, to bring them into the fold of a more formalised early education curriculum," Palanivel, who is MIC president, told reporters after launching a Deepavali carnival organised by Hulu Selangor MIC Youth in Serendah, Hulu Selangor, on Sunday.

A total of 35 kindergartens have been set up under the programme which is funded by Palanivel.

"I'll also bear 50 per cent of the cost if any businessman or corporate figure adopts a child to fund their preschool education," he added.

As an advocate of early childhood education, Palanivel has been involved in the running of kindergartens in several rural areas under the CBF for several years, and the first few were initialised when he was deputy rural development minister.

At the carnival, a total of 1,000 households from Hulu Selangor received food items in conjunction with the upcoming Deepavali celebration.

The residents, comprising the poor, persons with disabilities and the elderly, were all smiles as each of them received RM100 worth of foodstuff such as rice, sardines, sugar, tea and cooking oil.

Hulu Selangor MIC Youth chief V. Mugilan said the division took the initiative to help the needy residents with Deepavali being just around the corner.

"It'll lessen their burden for a more joyous celebration," he added. -- BERNAMA

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Outrage as bleeding China toddler left on street

Posted: 16 Oct 2011 11:07 PM PDT

BEIJING: More than a dozen passers-by ignored a two-year-old girl as she lay critically injured on a street in southern China after being run over twice, the official Xinhua news agency said Monday.

The incident has sparked outrage on China's hugely popular social media sites.

Surveillance cameras showed a series of people walk past the girl, named Yue Yue, after she was hit first by a van and then a truck outside her family's shop in the southern Chinese city of Foshan.

Xinhua said a rubbish collector who finally came to the girl's aid, moving her to the curb and shouting for help, was ignored by several shopkeepers before he finally tracked down her mother who took her to hospital.

In response, one netizen on Sina Weibo, a Chinese micro-blog similar to Twitter, wrote: "This society is seriously ill. Even cats and dogs shouldn't be treated so heartlessly."

But others linked the incident to an earlier case in which a man who tried to help an elderly woman after she fell over was prosecuted, apparently because his intervention broke government rules on dealing with accident victims.

Doctors said Yue Yue was in a coma and unlikely to survive the ordeal.

"She would not be able to survive any operations. She's very close to brain death," a spokesman for the hospital treating her told AFP.

Police have detained the drivers of both vehicles involved in the incident, Xinhua said. - AFP

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