KUCHING: Hope Place yesterday received an urgent call for help from Anjung Singgah.
It pertained to Ronie ak Lampun, 37, who was suffering from dengue fever. She is the wife of 39-year-old Huang Yeou Yang
The couple and four of their children aged between 12 and 19 years old are currently putting up at Anjung Singgah. An elder daughter is already married and staying in Sibu.
Having not enough money and with no means, all the four children are not sent to school and are currently jobless just like their parents.
“I am trying hard to find a job but till now to no avail. We don’t ask for anything more than three meals a day and hopefully to get a job,” said Huang.
Hope Place has been informed that a few weeks ago, Ronie’s lost her handbag to snatch thief when coming back from the Sarawak General Hospital. Kept inside the bag were all their identification documents such as Identity Cards and the birth certificates of the children. Huang managed to make police report about the loss but had no money to pay for bus fare in making new documents to the National Registration Department.
Beside this, worst situation happen to these families is few week ago when they come out from Sarawak General hospital,Ronie hand beg was take away by snatch thief. All their IC & children birth certificate was lose. After make polis report Huang have NO money & NO transport went to JabatanPendataran to make new IC.
Yesterday Ronie received another bad news from her family in Sibu that her mother had just passed away and she needed to go home but no money to purchase bus tickets.
Hope Place founder Kelvin Wan came to their rescue by handing over public donation amounting to RM 1,100.00 to Huang and family and also helped to send them to bus terminal in Kuching Sentral.
Hope Place is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that visits the poor and less fortunate families to contribute some essential food items like rice, cooking oil, sugar, salt, biscuits, and noodles.
Plenty of these families or individuals barely earn enough to get them through the month; hence many are grateful with the assistance of these basic necessities delivered to them. For the families with children with special needs, or with elderly or disable people, they are provided with milk powder, oat and diapers as well.
Hope Place carries out their aid deliveries once every two months because of the many families on their recipients list. Currently it supports more than 170 families.
For more information on how you can help, Hope Place can be reached at (Hot line 013-567 2775) from 8.30am -12pm & 2pm– 5pm Mondays to Fridays, Saturday 9am to 12pm only. Should the public be interested to make a donation, please do request for a receipt from the staff at Hope Place.
For direct Bank in Please bank into our (Persatuan Kebajikan Harapan Kuching) Maybank account number 5112-8900-1160.
