Disclaimer: This entry is to explain and to counter-reply the accusations thrown to KTAJ/SCRATCH and its members. We are not interested to engage any fight with any NGO or individuals. With this entry published, we assume everyone has moved on and really mean it. Should there be any screenshot of accusation concerning us, we do not hesitate to take a legal action.
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Days ago, our volunteers came across a post accusing KTAJ/SCRATCH and its members swindling the donation money and questioning our contribution. We would like to clarify and here are the screenshots:
Since the post was made public, we too would like to take the same stand so that all of us can learn to be more civilized to differentiate personal fight and organizational arguments.
Here goes our counter-reply and it is indeed lengthy:
KTAJ was first founded in March 2011 that was months before the
Petknode’s Hell Hotel tragedy. KTAJ was
officially registered in 2013 and renamed as S.C.R.A.T.C.H (Stray Cats Rescue and Treatment Community
Help). We do not have any shelter and therefore we require the community, the
society and the public to take part in rescuing/rehabilitating process of the
saved cats.
There are divisions or units in KTAJ/SCRATCH namely
a. E-Mail team
b. KTAJ Online
Adoption House
c. KTAJ official
page
d. Event and Program
e. Neutering team
1. Main mission and vision
a. We provide medical subsidy
b. We provide neutering subsidy
c. Occasionally under certain circumstances we provide temporary
fostering for independent rescuers
We do not have any shelter and thus we do not take any injured or
stray cats. Please bear in mind, we have a wider definition of rescue activity;
not limited to sheltering injured cats or take in any stray cats found on the
streets. We rescue humans’ souls too by educating them the importance of
volunteering works, neutering, the practice of euthanasia and so forth. We
encourage the public to take part in the process to cultivate
volunteerism. We provide online adoption
house as a platform to rehome the rescued cats.
2. President and Presidency
a. There will be 1 president at
one Financial Year and we had 2 ex-presidents so far.
b. President is elected by the
committee members except the first president who is self-appointed.
c. President does not have any privilege in terms of subsidy
application in fact, anyone holds this post is made difficult to apply for
subsidy; except the first president where she had the authority to approve her
own subsidy.
d. President must be someone all-rounder, thus he or she will get
involve all division mentioned before. Having said all-rounder, president must
be someone knowledgeable and being diplomatic is optional.
The President of KTAJ is just
like any other committee members. He or
she is required to involve in charity booth and all instructions, policies
given must be collectively agreed by the committee members first. In case of
any wrong doing, abuse of power and money swindling he can be challenged and
can be advised to resign. He or she holds no immunity.
3. Experience
Majority of the committee members have the experience with cats and/or
dogs ever since they were born. The President does not run the organization
alone and from time to time all members are learning from each other. The
comparison of ‘having less experience’ is thus invalid. KTAJ/SCRATCH focuses on
the welfare of the cats and dogs, therefore we have no interest at competing
with anyone in terms of experience or publicity.
4. Attitude
a. We are vocal and opinionated when comes to animal welfare. You may
find some of us portraying strong characters when solving problems either
verbally or through email.
b. If any of our committee member has any dispute on PERSONAL
capacity, KTAJ will not hold responsible and should not be associated unless he
or she, speak on behalf of us with the permission of the committee members. Public
must be able to distinguish between personal dispute and disagreement between
organizations. We do not pick fight with any independent rescuers or any
organizations.
5. Why We Don’t Go Big
a. As a registered organization, we are required to abide the law by
having our financial book audited. That was time when the ledger didn’t tally
with the receipts and expenses. In 2013, an EGM was held and the second
president was elected to head KTAJ/SCRATCH. The first president was not KICKED
out from KTAJ, as a matter of fact, she resigned and was made to be the Honorary
Member.
b. During the transition time there were too many insufficient information
because some of the previous committee members failed to document the
transaction. Our organization was in a great mess to a point we have to halt
subsidy assistance to sort out many problems.
We cannot go big, organizing big charity event and so forth due to this
reason. The problems left for us drained most of our energy and tiring our
brains.
6. Subsidy application
a. Public: send an email > we respond > provide bills and
pictures > we bring your application into our meeting > decision; approve
or disapprove.
b. Members: send an email > we respond> provide bills and
pictures> we investigate> evaluate current balance of our account >
bring into the meeting > decision; approve or disapprove.
Tell us, can you spot a difference? We will share and flaunt our
subsidy from now on. Who we have helped and who we are still helping. We
believe the public should know that money wasn’t used among ourselves.
Our core volunteers are all working people and therefore we are less
likely to apply for subsidy because it is too tedious for us. We made it simple
for public to apply from us but with terms and conditions.
7. Collaboration with other NGO
a. We have a good repo with Malaysian Dogs Deserve Better, Furry Friends
Farm, Lost Animal Souls Shelter, Trap-Neuter-Release-and-Manage (Malaysia).
b. We
have good connections with independent rescuers and other animal lover page
groups. Some of these independent rescuers came and joined our adoption drive.
8. Disputes with other NGO
a. Disputes and fights with other NGOs or independent rescuers happened
before KTAJ became a registered entity. It is so unfair to blame the current
committee members to be responsible for these frictions. For your information,
the current president and some of the committee members joined KTAJ in late
2012 when everything was already heated and damaged.
b. We would like to call the
former committee members (if they have the guts) to confirm this or else we
will parade the chronology of the fight for the public to judge. We find this
pointing fingers are so childish when we the current committee members have a
lot to do!
9. Current Activities and
Affairs
a. Since we do not shout out for donation from the public we will
participate in any event to set up charity sale booth. We do not want you to
merely donate, come and support us by buying our merchandise. We travel as far
as to Penang up-north, and to Johor down-south. We do not provide lodging or
mileage to these volunteers unless it is really necessary. All the money must
go to the cats and dogs.
b. There are volunteers helping at Pusat Jagaan Kucing, Putrajaya and
you can find them in some weekends wearing our NGO t-shirt. Do say hi to them!
c. Volunteers who left because they chose to leave, not because we
forced them to. We are lacked of manpower here and what makes some people think
we are shooing away our volunteers? However, being loyal to us doesn’t mean you
can do wrong and get away with it. Being loyal and being right are two different
things.
d. We do not let our volunteers to dive into media publicity be it on
air or on papers. We, by all means, try to avoid these kind of publicities
although we know these publicities help us. Normally we will push everyone to
get involved in any interview and discourage individual interviews. ‘dengki’
perse, we don’t have such a trait. We do not need any limelight and we keep our
profile low.
10. For every action there is
reaction
This very Newton’s Law is applied in our lives. Rumours and hearsay
travel faster than the speed of light. Haters will hate and that is what they
are best at.
We urge the public to get a confirmed story before writing or
publishing on the Internet. Our committee members are naturally approachable
and friendly, try us by becoming our volunteer at our booth. You might be
surprised with all the slander thrown at us.
We hope this issue is settled and should any of you have any doubts
regarding our NGO, please write or contact our volunteers.
With this lengthy explanation, we would like to move on. Thank you for all the supports and we hope you, our precious followers, will continue to support us.
-Team KTAJ/SCRATCH-