MOW FOOD BANK - Another Sunday spent delivering groceries to poor families

Despite the school holiday season whereby most fathers would be busy spending quality time with their children, Bro Ivan and Bro Swee Keong were delivering groceries to MOW FOOD BANK families, and this took up almost the whole of their Sunday. Bro Andrew also helped in the delivery and at the same time visited his numerous "adopted" children during the delivery.

Their dedication in ensuring the families receive their monthly supply of groceries is indeed something to shout about, and the families are truly grateful for these volunteers' compassion.

Strong muscles were needed for the heavy load but it was no problem for our volunteers! The task began from our centre in Penchala with the loading of the items into the MOW van.

And of course, the families helped out in the carrying of the load too.

The families receiving the groceries were all smiles, happy to have the assurance of food on the table for at least the next 2-3 weeks.

And last but not least, A BIG THANK YOU to our generous donors:

Yu Chee Koon
Tan Kai Ming
R.G.
Stone Empire
Joyce Ong
Celine Yong Chooi Ping
C.S.H.
Angie
In memory of Mdm Lam Sum Ying
Peter Liew
Felicia Ong
LGB group
Chew Yoo Wee

Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu!


Posted by: Kim
Pictures courtesy of: Bro Ivan

MOW FOOD BANK - Ensuring food on the table for 20 families

We hit another milestone in our effort to reach out and help the urban poor - we now have 20 families in our MOW FOOD BANK program.

Last Tues, 5th Nov 2013, Bro Ivan, Bro Andrew and Bro CF spent a good part of their Awal Muharram holiday delivering groceries to these 20 families in Sentul, Setapak, Gombak, Sg Besi, Jinjang and Kepong.

The families were eagerly waiting for the supplies as we were a little late with the October deliveries due to the long weekend of Deepavali.

This would not have been possible without the generous contributions from our generous donors:

Yu Chee Koon
Tan Kai Ming
R.G.
Stone Empire
Joyce Ong
Celine Yong Chooi Ping
C.S.H.
Angie
In memory of Mdm Lam Sum Ying
Peter Liew
Felicia Ong
LGB group
Chew Yoo Wee

Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu!


Posted by: Kim
Pictures courtesy of: Bro Ivan

MOW FOOD BANK - New volunteers helped deliver groceries on 29 Sep 2013

When Bro Ivan informed me that there will be almost 30 new volunteers coming for last Sunday's delivery of groceries for our MOW FOOD BANK program, I was a little apprehensive. That Sunday was the day of the Kuala Lumpur Standard Chartered Marathon and many roads in downtown KL were closed, parking is very limited at the PPR flats and the homes of our FOOD BANK families are typically very small and can hardly accommodate a dozen visitors in the living room.

However, we have big plans for our MOW FOOD BANK program next year and we are in need of volunteers who can commit to helping us with the monthly deliveries of groceries. So we pushed on with the delivery with 30 new volunteers and the regulars - Ivan, Andrew and myself.

After a briefing at our Penchala centre, the new volunteers, who call themselves CP 28 helped us load the groceries into our MOW van.

With so many pairs of hands, they passed the boxes of groceries from one person to another, like a factory production line, and completed the loading in no time at all!

The loading was supervised by our veteran volunteer, Bro Andrew.

 After a group picture, we were all ready to push off by 10:45am.

First stop was Mr Maran's house in Sentul, where the volunteers had their first experience of the environment of a PPR flat. The volunteers decided to split themselves into 3 groups, and only a third went up to the flat as they didn't want to overwhelm the family.

Then we moved on to Jinjang to visit Chloe and Lucas.

Followed by deliveries to Mdm Ng and her husband in the adjoining block.

Last stop in Jinjang was delivery to Wena and her son, Fei Hoong.

By then, it was almost 1pm and we stopped at a hawker centre in Jinjang for yong tau foo lunch and drinks. Ais kacang had never tasted so refreshingly yummy as it was a super hot day!

After Jinjang, most of the new volunteers had other plans for the rest of the day. So, four of them hopped into our van and we moved on to Desa Rejang.

One of the volunteers saw a couple of CPUs in Aida's flat and when Aida told us "semua rosak", he offered to take the CPUs back to his office to repair. A new volunteer and able to fix/repair things ... MOW is truly fortunate to get volunteers like him.

As we were leaving Aida's house, we bumped into Kak Ummi, another FOOD BANK family, who was pushing a trolley of thrash (to be sold later for some money to feed her family) which she went around collecting with her Cucu on a hot afternoon. It was such a heartbreaking sight ... to see an old makcik and a little girl having to resort to this to get a few extra ringgit.

Then we moved on to Gombak where we visited our HAPPY CHILD Siti Nurmaisara at her home.

While Bro Andrew guarded the van with our precious commodities:)

Our last stop was Sg Besi where the Chins were waiting for their goodies.

By the time we got back to Penchala centre, it was almost 4pm. We were all tired, but happy that we accomplished our mission to deliver groceries to 18 families in 5 hours, and even had time for lunch:)

Thank you to our new volunteers from CP 28 for participating in our FOOD BANK delivery. We truly hope you will continue to support us in our future deliveries and other projects.

And of course, our gratitude to the following donors for this month's groceries:

Yu Chee Koon
Tan Kai Ming
R.G.
Stone Empire
Joyce Ong
Celine Yong Chooi Ping
C.S.H.
Angie
In memory of Mdm Lam Sum Ying
Peter Liew
Felicia Ong
LGB group




Posted by: Kim
Pictures courtesy of: Kim

MOW FOOD BANK - Donations for Uncle Chin and Mdm Chin

Since we posted the plight of these two families in early Aug 2013, many generous individuals have come forward with generous contributions in cash and kind. The amount we have collected so far is adequate to support Mdm Chin for the extras she has to spend for her mother's nutrients and treatment, and Uncle Chin for his son's education expenses, for the next one year or so.

Mdm Yap (Chin's mother) is now undergoing weekly accupuncture treatment from a Sinseh from Rawang who makes house calls. After two sessions, her daughter informed us that she appears to be getting better, i.e. able to talk a little. We hope she will continue to show good progress with all the from our donors.

With this blog posting, we would like to announce that we are no longer accepting cash contributions to the Chins. If you wish to donate to the Chins, you can give directly to the families. If you wish to do so, kindly contact June at 03-77849002 or trccpenchala@gmail.com, for the families contact details.

A BIG THANK YOU to all the donors for your kind and generous contributions ...


Teoh Seok Thien
Chin Chee Kin
Yap Siew Bee
Datin Amy Ter
Datin Chew Siew Chea
LGB Group
Wu Yoo Wee
Lee Chew Poh & Pun Chee Kent
Dato Tony Lee & family
Chin Chee Keong
Tracy Wong
Chng Poh Chye
Yip Lai Sean
Tommy Teh
Puan Sri Cecilia Lim
Loh Hin Leong
PNSB Nam Bee Rubber Industrial Sdn Bhd
Loong Hian Lok
Cheah Chor Eng
Raymond Dillon Dimon
Yu Chee Koon
IMO Quah Chin Teik
Florence Lee
Loh Hin Leong
Tan Saw Cheng
Wan Hing Automobiles
Dickie Lee
Lim Siew Ee
Low Kar Keong



The families are truly grateful to the care and support shown to them.



Posted by: Kim
Pictures courtesy of: Kim

MOW FOOD BANK - Groceries delivered over Merdeka weekend

This month, we welcome Uncle Chin and his niece, Soo Yuen to our MOW FOOD BANK program. Soo Leng (Soo Yuen's sister) and her husband were quite shock when they saw the pile of goodies we brought, this being their first month as recipient of our MOW FOOD BANK program. In addition to the usual groceries, we also brought 1 month supply of diapers and disposable underpad for her mother who is bedridden with stroke. We even brought moon cakes for the families, courtesy of one of our donors.

Uncle Chin's only child, Chuan Yoong happily posed for a picture...aren't his dimples just adorable!!!

In the home of Mr Chok ... Bro Ivan always have a ready smile for the two orphans, Chloe and Lucas.

And groceries for Mdm Ng and her husband...

On Sat, Kim and Lew delivered groceries to families in Desa Rejang, and were invited to a Raya Open House organized by several of the families along the corridor of their flat.

We sampled the home-cooked Kelantan laksa and laksam ... both were yummy!

Despite the space constraint, the families make do with what they have and are obviously enjoying the festivities.

As some of the families were not at home when we delivered the groceries, the items were all temporarily stored in Aida's house.

Over at Taman Melati, Zabiyah and her elderly mum came down to collect the groceries, while Fazilah's kind neighbor helped her carry the groceries up to her flat. As usual, we also brought Peptamen Junior milk and diapers for Fazilah's daughter, Siti Nurmaisara.

In Sentul, Vijaya and her sons received the groceries from us, including diapers and Everyday milk for Sasi.

Another month of groceries delivered, means food on the table for the PPR families for at least the next couple of weeks or even a month for smaller families.

On behalf of the families, Ti-Ratana Meals on Wheels would like to acknowledge the generous contribution of the following donors who made August 2013 MOW FOOD BANK possible:


Yu Chee Koon
Tan Kai Ming
R.G.
Stone Empire
Joyce Ong
Celine Yong Chooi Ping
C.S.H.
Angie
In memory of Mdm Lam Sum Ying
Peter Liew
Felicia Ong
LGB group

Also a big thank you to Fung Wong Biscuits for the halal mooncakes which were distributed to all the 19 families.



Posted by Kim
Pictures courtesy of Kim