Ramadhan Feeding Prog @ Puchong

On Friday, 29/6/2012 – Project MADE received a distress call from Puchong Contact Pax – En. Abdul Wahab. He requested assistance for 2 Families in Puchong.

We went to Puchong the very next day – Sat, 30/6/2012 at about 5pm. We brought with us Food Parcels containing:-

Rice – 10kg/ Wheat Flour – 1kg/ Meehoon – 1pkt/ Sugar – 1kg/ Salt – 1pkt/ Oil – 1pkt/ Sardines – 2 tins/ Baked Beans – 2 tins/ Condensed Milk – 2 tins/ MILO – 1 pkt/ Nespray Milk Powder – 2 pkt/ Biscuit – 1pkt

Toiletries – Bath Soap/ Toothpaste/ Tooth brushes/ Shower Cream

I was really NOT prepared for what I had to see – I thought that I have seen enough sufferings. Hence, I should be hardened to all these poverty-stricken scenarios. I was WRONG!!

Above: The Bleak Portrait of a Broken Family. What will the future hold for the children??

The 1^st Family we visited lived in a low cost rented flat unit. Puan Sabariah has 5 children ranging from 15 yrs old to 2 yrs old. The children were dressed in ragged and filthy clothes. Apparently they have no clothes to wear!!

From what I gathered: her husband – on one fine day – decided to just leave the family. He has never been back since. Puan Sabariah has high blood pressure and is also a diabetic – she is not able to go out to work. She relies on neighbours and we-wishers food. On the day we came – she actually told us that they had no food in the house. The children have gone hungry since morning. The utility bills have not been paid. She is just waiting for the electricity to be disconnected.

We advised her to go to TNB to appeal and plead with them, stating her case. Hopefully, she will be given some grace period to settle her RM700 electricity bill. The house rent of RM350 per month are in arrears. The water pipe had burst the bathroom could not be used. They had to bathe in the bare kitchen. The fridge is nothing but a broken down wreck….

Above: From Left - En. Wahab, Cikgu Mahyuni (in tudung), Pn. Shamsiah & her children

 

The 2^nd Family we visited also lived in a low cost rented flat unit. Puan Shamsiah is a convert. She has 2 young children ages 12 yrs old & 5 yrs old. Her husband who was also a convert died 2 months ago leaving in a legal turmoil. Puan Shamsiah is an Indonesian. Her late husband was a Malaysian. They got married in Indonesia and by sheer bad luck – he did not bother to register their marriage in Malaysia. The Certficate of Marriage from Indonesia was Fasified. Now – Puan Shamsiah & her children could be deported.

Puan Shamsiah’s case is beyond our jurisdiction. There wasn’t much we could do to help her in her legal wrangle.

It made me cry to see the plight of these 2 women …. How dismal & bleak the future looks for them.