About Us

Wishesland Kuching Branch

Wishesland Kuching

(Board Member from 2021-2023)

President:

Chi Poh Yung

Vice President:

Desmond Hii Ding Ong

Secretary:

Agnes Winnie Ak Sibat

Vice Secretary:

Kong Hung Chuo

Treasurer:

Tan Ping Wey

Vice Treasurer:

Lee Ting Ting

Ordinary Committee Member:

Chin Li Li

Honseng Andrias Nyawin

Mohammad Firdaus Bin Jamil

Sim Kek Hui

Internal Auditor:

YF Leong & Co

Official Logo & Meaning

Overall, the logo resembles a beautiful flower that depicts the hopes and desires of people with cerebral palsy to live despite the challenges and obstacles they may face in life.

The heart-shaped blossom symbolises the power of love, a love of the kind that people with cerebral palsy need most from everyone.

The four leaves supporting the love symbol denote the spirit of perseverance and determination in overcoming life's challenges and obstacles, and all these must start from a green young age. Green is also the colour of sustainable energy, symbolising that the spirit of charity lives in everyone from all walks of life regardless of race, religion, and stature. They all will not cease their continuous support for the association.

The bigger, blue, round spot placed higher than the smaller yellow one represents a more abled person obligated to provide shelter, guidance, and protection to the less abled person who needs all the help they need.

Our Values

Vision

The One-Stop Centre for promoting and upholding the universal rule of the cerebral palsy recovery system.

Mission

To provide a reliable, quality, and effective cerebral palsy recovery experience and cultivate a greater peace of mind for all impacted parents and children.

Philosophy

Exercising a continuous effort to think, plan, develop, and execute a comprehensive and multi-disciplined strategy to produce balanced and harmonious children in physical fitness, intellectuality, and emotion.

Slogan

Family solution-centric, child-ability focus.

Role

To provide information and education on cerebral palsy to parents and public members.

Our Objectives

To unite children and adults with cerebral palsy as well as members of their families under one organisation to strengthen social coordination.
To provide an avenue for counselling services, rehabilitation and consolidated treatment to cerebral palsy children or adults with the close cooperation and involvement of members of their families.
To accept donations from public members or patrons to sustain and promote the propagation of the objectives and aspirations of the association.
To contribute welfare support and assistance to children or adults with cerebral palsy and to ensure that their interests and rights are recognised and protected.
To foster a closer relationship, goodwill, and harmony among members of the association.
To raise funds for the association with prior consent from the Registrar of Societies and relevant authorities and having been approved in the association's General Meeting.

Our History

Wishesland Kuching

Our History

History of Wishesland Kuching

Setting up this cerebral palsy society was mooted 13 years ago by a group of parents whose children were diagnosed with cerebral palsy. They attended a talk organised by Pastor Mok Ing Huat on 20.7.2007 in MBKS Hall in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. The pastor shared his latest book on his experiences taking care of his cerebral palsy son overseas and in Malaysia.

After the sharing session ended, Pastor Mok and a few parents stayed back and started a heart-to-heart chat regarding their own challenges, obstacles, and problems, including the sad and happy moments they had gone through with their cerebral palsy children.

From that group chat, they all agreed that more such sharing sessions should be carried out so that the activity could serve as a platform for parents to exchange ideas, share feelings, and get new treatment information on how to improve their children’s condition. As a few more parents’ sharing sessions were later followed through at various locations in Kuching, they saw more and more parents turning up for each session.

As there was no formal NGO in Kuching or East Malaysia where parents could go for counselling or get information about cerebral palsy, these parents felt an imperative need for a formal organisation or centre to be set up so that a more structured and professional organisation of information about cerebral palsy and treatment programmes could be planned and effectively executed.

With that in mind, a pro-term committee was formed in 2008, with Pastor Mok as its pro-term committee president. The committee then started to look for the necessary information on setting up the association.

However, due to the busy schedule and heavy commitment of Pastor Mok at his church, he decided to step down as the Protem Committee President. The process of setting up the association was thus left in limbo for a while.

Things went again when Mr Chi Poh Yung took the leadership to continue the quest in early 2009.

Setting up the association met a turning point when Sarawak Convention Bureau injected a setup fund of RM5,000 for the Protem Committee to engage a consultant to work out a plan. The initial name of the proposed association was Kuching & Samarahan Division Cerebral Palsy Association. Registration of the association was approved by the Registrar of Society on 2nd April 2009; it took less than 3 months from the application date.

The association's philosophy is that all members must cultivate a positive and hopeful attitude regardless of how challenging things would be when handling the process of nurturing and healing children with cerebral palsy.

Thus, to reflect that theme, the committee decided to change the association’s name to Wishesland to reflect that the place is the land for parents to gather and fulfil their wishes or hopes for their children. The name change was approved by the Registrar of Society on 1st October 2009.