KUCHING: Hope Place founder Kelvin Wan on Wednesday handed over 19 sets of food items to a team of Hospital Sentosa social workers led by Noor Shahida Binti Baseri.
This team of Hospital Sentosa social workers makes consistent monthly visits to outpatients who not only suffer from mental illness, thereby rendering them as OKUs, but are also very poor. There are 19 needy families approved by Hope Place for assistance and these are the families visited monthly by a team of the Hospital Sentosa social workers who are mostly volunteers.
These needy families approved to receive the assistance by Hope Place are visited by the team of social workers from Hospital Sentosa at least once a monthly whereby food items are distributed.
In the Wednesday’s visit, Hope Place founder Kelvin Wan and two staffers
Tiong Yong Yieng and Peter handed over 19 sets of food items to two social workers namely Noor Shahida Binti Baseri and Angelina anak Sawong who were to deliver the items to the needy aforesaid families.
Included in the list of food items worth over RM5,000 given out to the 19 needy families by Hope Place during the visit were rice, cooking oil, biscuit, noodles, salt, sugar, Milo, water for those houses without water supply as well as adult pampers for those individuals with disabilities (OKU).
Hope Place is an NGO that visits the poor and less fortunate families to contribute some 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 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 people with disablities, they provide 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 Hope Place supports more than 170 families. For more information on how to obtain help, Hope Place can be reached at (Hot line 013-567 2775 & Office 082 – 68 3378) from 8.30am to 12pm and from 2pm– 5pm Mondays to Fridays with Saturday being from 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.
