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Bodhi Home Care (Taman Ikan Emas, Cheras)
Bodhi Home Care @ Taman Ikan Emas, Cheras, is a registered home care, set up in 1989 to house and take care of handicapped and abandoned children (presently aged 8 onwards) as well as needy and some disabled old folks forsaken by their families. In total there are about 40 inmates.

The temple was founded by a Chinese monk from China. Shortly after obtaining registration as a legal society, the monk passed away. There were no successors. With 7 lay committee members (all working full-time), they took over to look after the place and assisted by the inmates children along the way. Due to its pleasant surroundings and the presence of a large statue of Quan Yin, the locals would come to the temple to seek blessings. Some despondent who gave up on their sick or problematic children would leave them at the temple gates. The temple was located in a low income group area in Cheras.

Accordingly, even though the committee had no special experience in handling the sick children (including children with down syndrome), most of them improved after staying in the temple. Words spread. To date there are about 20 children with ages ranging from 2 – 21 years being taken care of at Bodhi Homecare Cheras.

It was lamented that at one stage, the authorities wanted to evict them, as the building was on State land and in the path of a new highway to be built. They refused to leave. Shortly after that, a part of the temple which was the living quarters caught fire and was destroyed. As such, there is no space to rebuild proper living quarters at this point in time. Eventually, the highway was built through the temple land (exactly where the quarters used to be).

As the Bodhi Home Care is an NGO, the committee runs a small recycling station of donated items like clothes, plastic ware, newspapers, and etc for sale. This contributes to about 50% of their expenses which include living, medicare and schooling expenses for the inmates. Otherwise, they thrive on the occasional donations from the public. Means, there are no frills and wasteful spending. Indeed, the home is run on very frugal guidelines. For the daily meals, vegetables are sometimes donated to the home after the market in the vicinity closes. Some meat is bought and the able inmates help the caregivers to cook wholesome meals.

Despite this, Bodhi Home Care provides free medical services and traditional herbal medicine to the needy public as they have a TCM doctor who comes on Sundays to contribute such services.

They give out bags of rice and food stuffs donated to them by the public to the more needy and with great selfless devotion, at specific day of every month, the adults, by also guiding the children to cook and serve to the poor that visit the home care for such purposes. Bodhi Home Care also provides free tuition and a kindergarten for poor children from the public.

Address:

Jalan Ikan Emas,Taman Ikan Emas, Batu 3 1/2,

Jalan Cheras, 56100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Google Map Coordinates:

https://goo.gl/maps/ZWpDZYNuQX52