Greetings,
What would you do if you met a child who would surely die if they didn’t get medical attention quickly?
And by all indications, that child had no hope for medical attention because the cost was completely out of reach.
“That’s a sad situation,” you say.
“But there’s nothing I can do about it…
I’m just one person.
They need a doctor.”
Luckily, we know a great doctor.
Dr. Mani Sivasubramanian has dedicated his life to helping those kids.
To date, he’s performed more than 70 life-saving surgeries for those kids who never would
haven’t gotten the open heart surgeries.
He’s done that by raising more than $137,000 through his internet marketing efforts.
And now, you can help him do more.
And you can profit from this as well by participating in the NAMS4Kids JV Giveaway.
Not only will you get 100s of great products to help you run your business or your life, but
you’ll be saving lives…literally!
Read this example of one such child below:
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“What do you want to become when you grow up?”
the interviewer on the cable TV news channel asked him.
“I will take good care of my mother,” the boy replied.
His name is Vinodh.
He is 8 years old.
He had just recovered from heart surgery.
And his words had deep meaning.
Much more than may be apparent at first glance.
When Vinodh was a toddler, his dad abandoned the family.
His mother scraped by, earning a meager daily wage as a
construction worker.
On Rs.500 (around $10) a month, she struggled to bring up 2 children.
And one of them had a congenital heart defect!
She was told he needed an operation.
The cost would be at least Rs.65,000 ($1,300).
With no option in sight to raise the mind-boggling sum, she hoped and prayed – and cared for
Vinodh.
Until he became too ill to ignore.
The brave young woman, fighting for her precious son’s survival, dared to make a desperate effort – and traveled hundreds of miles to the nearest city where heart surgery would be available.
As to how she would fund it, she hadn’t the faintest clue!
Or maybe she knew in her heart that there are people who care.
People just like you from around the world who would reach out with a helping hand, and save her little boy.
Vinodh’s operation was funded through donations from the Dr.Mani Children Heart Foundation.
His surgery was one of the very first success stories of this organization…
which has funded 70 more like his since then.
Is it any surprise then that this young boy’s hope, dream and ambition is to take good care of his heroine – his mom?
Oh, he said he also dreams of being a doctor.
Thank you – for helping him dream!
Dr. Mani Sivasubramanian
Chennai, India
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The Niche Affiliate Marketing System workshops have adopted Dr. Mani’s foundation by supporting his cause.
In January, 2010, at NAMS3, we raised more than $1600 from the people in the room which resulted in surgery for one child in India.
The students at NAMS saved a life.
If you’ve ever thought about participating in a JV Giveaway to get great products to drive your business, now’s the time.
This one is truly different.
David Perdew at NAMS4Kids has called in some favors from a whole bunch of top online marketers and convinced them all to give you TONS of free products and services at no cost to you.
But of course, we’d take a donation from you for Dr. Mani’s foundation.
Our goal is to raise $10,000 in 72 hours.
You will receive:
-ebooks
-scripts
-memberships
-private label rights products
-self-improvement products
And much more.
You name it, it’s there.
Remember, this is open at 10 a.m. ET on Friday, Aug. 20th.
Sign up now to get in first.
Stay tuned, I’ll let you know as soon as this is released.
It’s the most exciting news I’ve had the opportunity to share with you in a long time.
Peace & Prosper!
Marcus C. S. Tan
P.S. – Listen, just think about this a minute: Good work
comes to you without effort from you.
All you have to do is
respond.
Thanks for being my subscriber.
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There are listbuilding events, and then there are listbuilding events that save children’s lives.
In less than 2 days, the Niche Affiliate Marketing System 4 (NAMS4) Kids Joint Venture Giveaway launches.
The launch itself is very interesting because it’s sponsored by the Niche Affiliate Marketing System workshop and is being conducted DURING the workshop to leverage as many learning opportunities as possible for the 185 students who will be participating.
But that’s not why you need to read this.
I can give you all the standard reasons why JV Giveaways generate great traffic and listbuilding opportunities, but this one is truly different.
All the proceeds from the front end of this effort go to Dr. Mani’s CHD Foundation.
If you don’t know about Dr. Mani, here’s a one paragraph comment from Mark Joyner in the forward to one of Dr. Mani’s books:
“To hold this (book) up as the measure of the man is a great disservice to one of the greatest men now walking the earth…
What makes Dr. Mani great is the way he has leveraged his infopreneurship…
He doesn’t make a big fuss about it, but he uses the funds he raises with his entrepreneurial endeavors to save the lives of children who really need it.
He is a heart surgeon who has dedicated his life to providing heart surgery to children who cannot
afford the costs.”
The workshops have adopted Dr. Mani’s foundation by supporting his cause.
In January, 2010, at NAMS3, we raised more than $1600 from the people in the room which resulted in surgery for one child in India.
The students at NAMS saved a life.
Now, my friend, we want to let you in on that feeling by participating and profiting with NAMS4Kids JV Giveaway too.
But before I describe what’s in it for you, read this story from Dr. Mani about one of the 70 children so far saved through the efforts of Dr. Mani:
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Ranchana’s mother is an ICU nurse.
With devotion and professional efficiency, she cares for sick little children, helping them heal and easing their pain, and returning them to health and happiness.
But a cruel fate ordained that it would soon be her own turn to need healing!
When their daughter was born, the young parents were in for a shock.
Little did they realize that the brief infection that struck during early pregnancy would affect the way
their girl’s heart and eyes develop.
Ranchana was born with cataracts in both eyes.
She was practically blind.
An operation early in life fortunately cured that, though she has had to wear thick spectacles ever
since.
But the problem facing the family now was far bigger – and deadlier.
The German measles (rubella) virus had left the little girl’s heart malformed.
It had a hole inside which was causing a torrent of blood to rush into her lungs, keeping
her breathless and causing recurrent chest colds.
Fortunately, the condition was treatable by an operation…
but they had almost run out of money, with all the expensive medical attention their child had needed until then.
In desperation, the parents sought support.
Word of mouth spread through a network of nurses led her to one of our team members.
Ranchana was successfully operated on May 20th, 2006 for her large Atrial Septal Defect.
Her recovery was quick and uneventful.
Peering at the camera through her thick lenses, Ranchana told of her treatment on the CHD Awareness video recorded by the Dr. Mani Children Heart Foundation some years after her surgery.
To look at her today, you would hardly believe the hardship she has faced so early in life.
Grinning widely, she bubbles with energy and enthusiasm as she talks about her dreams to follow in her mom’s footsteps and become a nurse.
You, and others like you, made this possible.
You gave a child a chance to dream, a chance to hope…
a chance to live.
Thank you from my heart.
Dr. Mani Sivasubramanian
Chennai, India
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David Perdew at NAMS4Kids has called in some favors from a whole bunch of top online marketers and convinced them all to give you TONS of free products and services at no cost to you.
But of course, we’d take a donation from you for Dr. Mani’s foundation.
Our goal is to raise $10,000 in 72 hours.
You will receive:
-ebooks
-scripts
-memberships
-private label rights products
-self-improvement products
And much more.
You name it, it’s there.
Remember, this is opens at 10 a.m. ET on Friday, Aug. 20th.
Sign up now to get in first.
Stay tuned, I’ll let you know as soon as this is released.
It’s the most exciting news I’ve had the opportunity to share with you in a long time.
Peace & Prosper!
Best regards,
Marcus C. S. Tan
P.S. – You may be wondering, “what’s the catch?” well, there ISN’T one.
This is my way of saying thank you for being my reader, and I hope that you will make lots of money selling and using those products.
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Zack Haris, President of charity organisation, Kind Gift will be organising the 1st ever Singapore charity event, and I am going.
Event Details
Date : Saturday, 10 July 2010
Time : 0900 hours to 1800 hours
Venue : Sophia Cooke Ballroom (Level 2)
Fort Canning Lodge, YWCA
6 Fort Canning Road
Singapore 179494
Special Guest Of Honor: Mr Zainul Abidin Rasheed, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 
It is expected to be a full house event and up to $100,000 is to be raised for charity.
To get your tickets, head on to SuccessCharity.com, or you can get them at any MPH bookstores.
Do note that all sales of tickets will go the “Kind Gift” Charity!
Not only you can learn how to be more successful but you also do your part by donating to charity when you purchase a ticket the event!
Visit SuccessCharity.com for more information.
See you there!
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We do not need to look far for inspiration.
Right here in Singapore we have our own Mother Teresa.
For those who may want to donate food to the less fortunate, you may wish to consider supporting Teresa’s work.
The elderly families which her charity supports prefers sachet drinks like coffee, tea, milo or easy-to-open can food.
Besides the fact that most canned food are not very healthy, another reason is that many elderlies may find using can openers a hassle.
You can bring your food down to her place at below address/telephone number.
(Kindly call in advance to check if she or her care giver Sharana Rao is in)
Her place is in Hougang:-
Heart to Heart Service
130 Hougang Avenue 1
Singapore 538900
Tel: +65-6289 0924
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A centenarian is living proof that laughter is the best medicine, and a happy heart adds zest to life.
TERESA Hsu Chih is one unforgettable character.
The 112-year-old sends her audience into fits of laughter whenever she addresses a crowd.
She simply loves to crack jokes.
When questions are thrown at her, out come her wisecracks.
She doesn’t give you predictable answers and may even raise a question as a challenge to make you ponder.
How does someone who has attained the ripe old age of over 100 cope with losing loved ones?
“At your age, you’ve lost many good friends. How do you feel?” Hsu was asked.
Thrust with such an emotional question, Hsu could still come up with her wisecracks.
“I’ve got tissues but not enough to share with all,” said the Singaporean.
Hale and hearty: Social worker extraordinaire Teresa Hsu Chih may have lost all her teeth but she is still a jolly grand dame.
Losing loved ones
Well, she has grieved for the loss of two very important persons in her life.
“I was very sad when my mother passed away.
She was very loving and I was her only surviving daughter.
(Her sisters Ursula and Lucy, both school principals, and brother, Anthony, a Roman Catholic priest, all died in 1973.)
“She was the dearest person in my life.
She had a bad fall and fractured her hip. I looked after her for three months prior to her passing.
It took me a while to get over the fact that she was no longer physically with me.”
(Her mother, Tan Sok Chan, passed away at the age of 104.)
Apart from her mother, Hsu also terribly missed “a boy I was very much in love with” in her youth.
He was from Denmark but they met in China .
Unfortunately, he was killed in a plane crash.
A pragmatist, Hsu has this advice for those grieving for their loved ones: “Grieve if you must, ‘cos parting is hell; but life goes on, so smile as well.”
Hsu was addressing an audience of 300 people who had turned up for her recent talk at the Subang Jaya Buddhist Association in Selangor.
Bubby and jovial, Hsu is no ordinary centenarian.
Known as Singapore ’s Mother Teresa, Hsu has an illustrious career dedicated to serving the destitute, sick and elderly.
Perhaps her early exposure to poverty had helped her empathise with the poor and needy.
Born in Shantou, China in 1898, Hsu remembers vividly the struggles of her childhood.
“We were very poor.
Once, I was so hungry I could barely walk.
I stopped by the roadside and pulled out some grass and put it into my mouth.
Eating grass didn’t remove my hunger.
I was about five or six then,”
Hsu related in an interview.
“I decided then that if it was within my power, I would see to it that no one should have to eat grass.
So my work now is to beg for money (to give to the poor and needy).
Now I am stopping people from eating grass.”
“My mum had nothing to feed her four very small children.
Sometimes we dug out potatoes, cut bamboo shoots, climbed trees and plucked leaves.”
Love keeps her going
In 1927, the family migrated to then Malaya, and settled down in Penang where they worked as cleaners in Convent Light Street.
Hsu studied part-time and passed her Senior Cambridge Examination in 1931.
Two years later, she left for Hong Kong to work as a clerk.
In 1937, she went to Chongqing, China, to work as a secretary at a German news agency.
Later, she quit her job to become a volunteer to help the wounded during the Sino-Japanese War.
“I saw a lot of suffering during the war.
The bombings … one head, one leg (severed from the body of war victims) hanging on a tree.
People were crying.
Women were crying for their husbands (Japanese women married to Chinese men).”
Having seen the ravages of war, Hsu went to London to take up nursing in 1945, to better equip herself to help the injured.
Hsu worked in hospitals in England, before she went to Paraguay in 1953 to help start a hospital and homes for the sick and elderly.
In 1961, Hsu returned to Penang and later served as sister-in-charge of the Assunta Foundation in Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
In 1963, she moved down south to Singapore where she served as matron of Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital and founded the Heart to Heart Service which distributes basic necessities to the needy.
Two years later, she started another charity, Home for the Aged Sick, and retired as its matron in 1985.
Age did not stop Hsu from going on a trip to Vietnam last month to distribute food, money and clothing to 47 blind boys and girls, and 243 orphans.
“It was love that moved us to go there,” Hsu said.
Her heart for charity work, and her love for the poor, have keep her going all these years.
“My heart is full of love for them (the people she helped).
If they are happy, I am happy. Our social workers are happy, too.”
Hsu has a bagful of awards to show for her tireless charity work.
She was honoured with the Guinness Stout Effort Award (1988), the Life Insurance Association Award (1994), Her World Woman of the Year 1999 Special Award, Special Recognition Award at Singapore ’s National Volunteerism and Philanthropy Awards 2005, and the Public Service Star award in 2009.
In 2003, Hsu was given an Honorary Doctorate Degree by the University of South Queensland, Australia.
That same year, she was honoured with the Active Senior Citizen of the Year Award in Singapore.
Any plans to retire from social work?
“I am not retiring as long as there are poor people who need help.
They are my brothers and sisters,”
said Hsu.
Back home in Singapore, Hsu goes on her rounds visiting old folks to cheer them up, and does her best to provide for the poor.
“I go and beg for food and money for all my people,” she said, “I sit and chat with them like friends; we laugh and cry. And they feel much loved.”
Asked about the secret of her youthfulness, Hsu quipped: “It happened by chance. So everybody has a chance, too.”
Secret to good health
People are curious how healthy she is, having lived over a century.
Do you take any medicine?
“I don’t because I forget to be ill,” came her wisecrack.
Her personal aide and co-social worker Saranan Rao who accompanied her on her recent trip to Malaysia , clarified: “I seldom see her sick and her blood pressure is normal. She had an insulin test and when the result came back, everything was OK.”
Hsu quipped: “Very disappointing.”
Laughter is obviously Hsu’s best medicine.
Hsu is an avid reader, Rao disclosed.
“Her mind is alert.
In her house, there are books everywhere.
She sleeps very little.
Give her a good book and she forgets to sleep.
But she takes short naps very often.
Cat naps.”
All that reading has not strained her eyes.
She does not wear glasses and has not undergone any laser treatment for her eyes.
How does she keep jovial and happy all the time, someone asked.
Her reply: “I don’t know how to shut my mouth and laughter runs out.”
Once she visited an old lady and found her crying as her uncle had passed away.
“I held her hand and sang her a silly children’s song. Halfway, she was laughing,” said Hsu.
Hsu meditates in the morning and evening for “a peaceful mind and a happy life”.
She took up yoga at 67, and still practises it
However, she avoids the difficult moves because she has suffered a few falls.
“My body forgets to feel pain. I have no chance to complain,” she said.
Most valuable lesson she has learnt in life
“To always love people.
Love them even when they’re nasty because they’re unhappy.
Send out loving-kindness to them to counter their nastiness. Love conquers all,” said Hsu.
Rao shared a story of how Hsu wanted to visit someone in prison.
“A popular sifu in Singapore had had a big fall.
(Hsu clarified: ‘Not physical fall. Done something wrong.’)
A friend told Hsu about the monk.
The next morning, she wanted to visit him and said to me: ‘Whenever a brother or sister falls down, we must clean the sand from the knee and comfort them, not condemn them.’”
Rao related this to his friend and the latter was moved to tears.
He was so touched that Hsu had so much compassion and love.
“We spent a good time with the sifu,” Rao recalled.
Hsu’s parting message: “Love one, love all!”
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Part 1 of 3 video interview with Teresa Hsu Chih.
Part 2 and 3 are not posted due to poor sound quality.
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Text taken from an email being circulated.
Image taken from Wikipedia.
Video taken from YouTube
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