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HAPPINNESS CENTRE is a save haven for the intellectually and physically challenged  children of Melaka. This home was founded by Mr. Roy Collar, on 1st July 2000. Children who have no one to love or care for them are the first one to gain acceptance into this special home. Most of these precious children are either abandoned or come from very poor families. Some of them come from broken or single parent homes. Their families are not able to send them to institutions, workshops or day-care centres, which expect a monthly fee. Happiness centre on the other hand do not charge any fees, the reason being that the poor innocent children will be left to degenerate, because the families are not able to come up with the up-keep fee. 

There are 35 inmates at our home and all are physically or mentally disable. Their ages range from 5 years to 34 years. We have 17 Chinese, 11 Malay and 7 Indian children. All of these special children are not able to fend for themselves, even for their most basic needs. 20 of them require pampers and 21 of them have to be fed. Most of these children have multiple disabilities ranging from cerebral palsy, polio paralysis, speech impairment blindness and mental disorders.

Happiness centre employs 10 caretakers to cater to the children's needs.  Most of all we try to shower them with love and affection. The utmost priority of the centre is that the children are always clean and in pink of health. With GOD'S help and the generosity of the caring public, we try to keep this one-the-the state centre operational and hope to raise enough funds to buy own premises, so as to able to cater to more of these special children, who society has rejected but GOD has not. We try to give them a dignified life and hope that is some small way, they may be able to enjoy a little sunshine in their lives. We see them as GOD'S ANGLES on earth, pure and innocent, it's up to us to be able to recognize them.

We hope to able to carry on this work and get more of these special ones to our centre, with the help of the caring public.

LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS I HAVE LOVED YOU, GOD said, so......

Biodata of Founder - Roy Collar

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Name : Roy Collar
Age : 54 years old
Date of Birth : 28 November 1954
Nationality : Malaysian
Race : Portuguese
Marital status : Married on 29 November 1980
Children : 2 children
Roy's Experience : Had informal training in massaging of limbs and now using this knowledge to massage the children's limbs.
Former employers
: Worked with JKR until 1980 and then went to Singapore for greener pastures. In 1988 started working for a handicapped home in Johore Bahru, and after gaining knowledge, he opened his own home in Melaka on 1 July 2000.
Experience : Informal physiotherapy, counseling and able to do cooking, driving, bathing the children and is also able to administer simple medical treatments.

How it Got Started

Roy started this home because of the plight of come of the children he saw during the course of his work in 1988. Feeling that they were being neglected and abused, he felt that there should be a way to help there children and make their lives more comfortable and dignified.

He prayed and asked for guidance from God, and after much soul-searching decided to open the centre for the mentally and physically disable children of Melaka. This way only made possible with the help from family and friends who gave encouragement and support.

Speech by Mr. Roy Collar Founder of Happiness Centre

Today, I would like to thanks everyone for their generous support. Those who give full-heartily will be rewarded and those who receive will have to work hard. And today, the children that I have, when they are hungry, they will cry, when they pain, they will cry, but cannot say. They want to go for outings but cannot say, so they cry. There children when they want new clothes, they will cry, all this I have learnt through being with them 24 hours a day. This is the reason I have to be with these special ones all the time. I need your generous support both financial and morally.

Thank You.

Your sincerely,

 

Roy Collar, Founder



 
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