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Selling calendars at One Utama Shopping Centre

PhotoAsia is pleased to announce that the second charity calendar project to raise funds for Rumah Shalom was a roaring success. Thanks to friends and clients of PhotoAsia, generous donors and caring church members,  we managed to raise MYR20,000! This time our team of supporters learned a valuable lesson – that people in sales have a tough job. We experienced first hand what that job is like when we were given a free space to set up a stall at One Utama Shopping Mall for three days to sell the calendars.

Initially we faced rejections many times over, then through patience and persistence, we experienced the joy of making a sale, then more smiles when we sold a huge number of copies of the calendar.  On the third day we learned to smile through all our rejections, thanked  people who turned away and to forget tired legs and stiff necks because we raised over MYR4,000 during the three days.

So it was with great joy to be able to present the cheque of MYR20,000 to Pastor Arulandu who informed me it was most timely because the Home is in dire straits this year. Public donations are not forthcoming for some reason and the Home is in danger of running out of funds. If you can help, do spare them a thought.

Frankie (left), Doreen (middle) presenting cheque to Pastor Arulandu (right)

About Rumah Shalom

Rumah Shalom is located at No. 1 Jalan Teong 5, Bandar Puchong Jaya, 47100 Puchong, Selangor. In 1997, Pastor Arulandu started the Home for orphaned, homeless, neglected and abused children because he was moved to care for two needy children. Since then some 180 children have passed through the Home to become responsible citizens with a purpose in their lives. In the past 13 years, Rumah Shalom has always operated out of rented premises. Pastor Arulandu believed that Rumah Shalom should become a permanent home for these children where they can be nurtured in a secure environment of love, productivity, social maturity and trust in God. With donations and support from you and me, he hopes to buy the current premise so that the children will never have to be relocated again. We can all help them realise their dream of owning a place to call home.

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PhotoAsia successfully recovered damages for copyright infringement from a client who sheepishly confessed that they have used our images for commerical use without authorisation. After five weeks of negotiations the client finally agreed to pay RM127,790 ($38,438.83) in damages for the use of 30 images from 18 different photographers represented by PhotoAsia. The 18 photographers have not been contacted yet but they should be getting their share of the damages by the first week of April 2010.

What caused the client to confess this infringement? We found out later that another library has sent them a lawyer’s letter for copyright infringement for an image. This started a chain reaction and the client decided to do some housekeeping, digging out all their projects that used images to see whether they have all been paid. To their horror they discovered that the staff in charge of these projects have not paid for the reuse of many images or renewed the licence to continue using some of the images. According to the client the staff has already resigned sometime ago and her inefficiency has only now been uncovered.

This particular client has been a regular and loyal client and we have no reason to doubt that this was an oversight on the part of one individual staff and not a deliberate desire of the company to infringe our copyright. In view of the fact that they themselves came forward to make retribution, we were happy to reduce the penalty and charged the client only three times the normal rate. They even came to hand us the cheque personally and I have to say that this is the easiet settlement that we have experienced and without the aid of a legal counsel too!

Doreen Lau (left) presenting cheque to Pastor Johnson (right)

PhotoAsia organized a charity calender project in partnership with photographers and photo libraries who generously donated their images for use in the 2010 desktop calendar. Four thousand copies of the calendars were sold and and MYR10,000 were raised from the sales.

PhotoAsia hopes to continue to use its images to make a difference in the lives of the underprivileged and like to thank all the libraries and photographers who have willingly agreed to allow their images to be used for free in the charity calendar. It was through their support and the assistance of many people who have helped in every which way they could that PhotoAsia had succeeded in raising MYR10,000 for Stepping Stones Home. We hope with their continued support this will be the first of many such projects initiated by PhotoAsia.

The cheque was presented to Pastor Johnson, founder of the Stepping Stones Home which is located in Taman Seputeh, Kuala Lumpur. The Home provides a safe haven for children from needy and broken homes regardless of background or belief.

About Stepping Stones Home

Stepping Stones Home is located in Taman Seputeh, Kuala Lumpur. It was started in November 1998 by Pastor Johnson to provide a safe haven for children from needy and broken homes. Currently, children and single mothers are welcome into the Home regardless of background or belief, and are taught to live in, by and for God.

The Home in Taman Seputeh is the first. There are four others which make it possible for older boys and girls to be housed separately. The Home, which has 110 children, 12 mothers and 10 elderly persons is totally dependent on contributions from well wishers and friends.

Please support the Stepping Stones Home to enable the Home to answer every child’s cry for help, every single mothers plea for financial aid and every elderly person’s need for shelter.

PhotoAsia will be continuing organising such projects to raise funds for a needy home annually. Should you wish to support this project in any small way do contact us at 03-7955 3237 or email us at info@photoasia.com.my.

Join to support the children on the Stepping Stones Homes Facebook page.

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