NGO comes to aid of needy family
KUCHING: Hope Place Kuching recently visited a needy family introduced by the Sentosa Hospital medical social worker team.
Chai Fu Yung, 52, is a Hospital Sentosa outpatient. She has suffered from mental illness for more than 10 years. Her husband earns RM700 monthly as a security guard while their eldest daughter earns RM15-20 daily at a supermarket. The couple’s two younger children are still studying at a secondary school.
Hope Place founder Kelvin Wan handed over food items like rice, cooking oil, salt, sugar, Milo powder, noodles, biscuits and adult diapers to Chai, witnessed by Hospital Sentosa social worker Noor Shasida Baseri.
Hope Place is a non-governmental organisation ( NGO) that visits poor and less fortunate families to contribute essential food items like rice, cooking oil, sugar, salt, biscuits, and noodles. Many of these families or individuals barely earn enough to get through the month; hence, they are grateful for the relief provided by these contributions.
For families of children with special needs or with elderly people, the NGO provide milk powder and diapers as well. Hope Place carries out aid deliveries once every two months because of the many families on its recipients list. There are presently more than 160 families on the list.
Currently, Hope Place is short of children’s diapers size L and XXL and Ensure milk powder. This special milk is for disabled elderly and the disabled only.
For more information, call Hope Place at 013- 567 2775 or 082- 683378 from 8.30am–12pm and 2pm– 5pm, Mondays to Fridays; and 8.30am– 12pm on Saturdays.
For those interested to make a donation, please request for a receipt from the staff at Hope Place. For direct bank-in, bank-in to Persatuan Kebajikan Harapan Kuching, Maybank account no. 5112- 8900-1160.