MPKS lauds businesses for supporting community pantry
KUCHING: Kota Samarahan Municipal Council (MPKS) is thankful to businesses for coming forward to help the needy in the community pantry programme during this Covid-19 pandemic.
“MPKS thanks the 15 supermarkets, hypermarkets and mini markets in Kota Samarahan for fully co-operating with MPKS and for donating over 3,000 food boxes and drinks to about 10 per cent of the local population, from July 4 to today (yesterday),” said its chairman Dato Peter Minos when visiting the last community pantry at Cafe Makan Sari yesterday.
“We have done our bit helping the poor, the jobless and the desperate ones in MPKS area, on top of what the government and YBs (elected representatives) are doing,” he said.
He said the pandemic has caused people to lose their jobs and income since March last year. Some of the food recipients told of dire straits, with children crying for food, some pawning their valuables and begging from relatives and close friends.
“These are sad and pathetic real stories, not created but honest and real. Thus, we pray and hope that by August, 80 per cent of Sarawakians would have been fully vaccinated, and by then life will see some normalcy and the economy moving and rising up, so that the jobless will get incomes and businesses their revenues and profits.”
In the meantime, everyone must come forward in helping the government in any way possible on the vaccination exercise and giving food to the truly desperate and in real dire straits, he said.