Sunway College Kuching students team up to help elderly disabled man

KUCHING: Sunway College Kuching students recently came to the aid of needy families by providing them with food and household items as well as helping them clean their houses.

The eight- member group led by Dennis Kiung and deputy Bernard Teo raised RM1,589 for the cause.

The team members are Louisa Lim, Jenny Sim, Chin Poh Jing, Alex Then, Tan Fong, and Ong Ying Ying.

The students helped an elderly man Chiu Shau Lung who has mobility problems due to an accident and is unable to do daily chores.

His rural house also does not have clean water supply, which led to the students utilising collected rainwater to clean the house.

They also brought food items for Chiu.

The students got in touch with Hope Place Kuching to find out who needed help in the community and Chiu was the second recipient.

Hope Place is a nongovernmental organisation ( NGO) that visits poor and less fortunate families to contribute essential food items like rice, cooking oil, sugar, salt, biscuits, and noodles.

Plenty of these families or individuals barely earn enough to get through the month, hence are grateful for the assistance delivered to them.

For families with special needs children or elderly people, the NGO provides milk powder and disposable diapers.

Hope Place carries out aid deliveries once every three months because of the many families on its recipient list. Currently, there are more than 200 families.

For more information, call Hope Place on 013- 5672775 or 082- 505987 from 8.30am-12pm and 2pm- 5pm on weekdays, and from 9am-12pm on Saturdays.

Should the public be interested to make a donation, ask for a receipt from the staff at Hope Place.

For cash donations, bankins can be made to ‘ Persatuan Kebajikan Harapan Kuching’ through Maybank account 51128900-1160.