Evacuees continue to receive aid
KUCHING: Flood victims who are currently placed at temporary evacuation centres (PPS) in Bau and Serikin on Sunday continued to receive help. Hope Place, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), was among the bodies that helped to lift the burden of these people. Its founder Kelvin Wan said they had distributed the flood assistance in the form […]
Hope Place committed to helping flood victims
KUCHING: A non-governmental organisation (NGO), Hope Place has acted swiftly after receiving a distress call from a family in Samariang where they were left helpless after most of their belongings, including beds and clothes, were ruined by floodwater. Their neighbours were also in similar distress and needed urgent help. As such Hope Place had handed […]
Hope Place springs into action after flash floods hit
KUCHING: Hope Place has responded immediately to the flood situation here by handing out aid to flood victims at several evacuation centres on Tuesday night (Jan 12). The first evacuation centre Hope Place visited was Dewan Balai Raya Taman Desa Wira, Batu Kawa, and food and other basic necessities were given to 35 victims from […]
Sarawak Club, NGO donate meals to frontliners
KUCHING: The Sarawak Club and a local non-governmental organisation (NGO), Hope Place donated 1,830 meals to medical frontliners during the period of movement control order (MCO). It also offered the use of Sarawak Club’s premises for the packing and distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE) for use by local medical frontliners. For the term 2020-2021, […]
Teamwork enables help for needy families
KUCHING: With the support of Mubadala Petroleum, Hope Place has distributed food hampers, hand sanitiser and face masks to 200 underprivileged families and individuals here, a few days before Christmas. Mubadala Petroleum is a leading international upstream oil and gas exploration and production company with operations in Malaysia. “Hope Place is grateful to be able […]
Fisherman gets new roof for Christmas
KUCHING: In light of the Christmas spirit, Hope Place Kuching gave 60 new roof pieces as a Christmas gift to a family in Santubong. The recipient, Ho Bee Beng, a fisherman, lives with his wife in a stilted wooden house at the river mouth of Santubong River. Kelvin Wan, founder of the NGO noted that […]
Normah Foundation donates RM7,000 to Hope Place
KUCHING: Hope Place received a generous contribution of RM7,000 from the Normah Medical Foundation Charitable Trust Board recently. The cheque was handed by the board’s chairman Tan Sri Datuk Amar Bujang Mohd Nor to Hope Place founder Kelvin Wan at the foundation’s office in Jalan Satok here. In a statement released on Monday (Dec 21), […]
Hope Place extends help to frontliners in Sabah
KUCHING: Persatuan Kebajikan Harapan Kuching (PKHK) or Hope Place is extending its help to medical frontliners in Sabah by contributing personal protective equipment (PPE) worth RM6,000. “Hope Place received a request of help from Sabah earlier this month, asking for assistance in contributing PPE. “Hope Place is concerned and worried with the continuous surge of […]
Charity sale until Jan 5 next year
KUCHING: Greenzone Hygiene Sdn Bhd has started a charity sale this month, from last Saturday (Dec 5) which will end on Jan 5 next year. The theme “Greenzone for Hope” aims not only to help the needy community, but also to motivate the society during this pandemic. “It has always been our main objective in […]
Hope Place launches fundraising animation
KUCHING: Hope Place, a charity that provides food and necessities to societies neediest has launched a fundraising animated short video. Every frame of the four-minute animation was hand-drawn by Pixbugs Studio which consisted of young talented graduates from University Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) and Swinburne University of Technology, over seven months, from storyboarding till the completed […]
