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, The Sarawak Club has adopted five charitable organisations who continue to do amazing work in urban and rural Kuching and beyond.
Bookending the Christmas holidays, the members’ donations were presented to representatives from Sarawak Hospice Society, Mental Health Association of Sarawak (MHAS), Pink and Teal EmpowHer, Hope Place and Bring It On in two separate ceremonies on Dec 18 and Dec 29.
Each charity received RM10,000, presented by its president Melvin Wee, honorary treasurer Wilson Tan and general manager Robert Brodie.
Moreover, the Club’s charity adoption programme also hopes to help the charities in the running of their programmes, and also to generate awareness of these charities among the Club members and society in general.
“With the ongoing Mco restrictions in place since mid-March, The Sarawak Club is aware that charitable organisations in particular, have faced even more hurdles in reaching out to their beneficiaries.
“The adopted charities have shown that despite the challenges, they continue to deliver timely and crucial assistance to those most in need,” the statement said.
Furthermore, aside from the cash donations, the Club members also granted Christmas wishes to beneficiaries from the Mental Health Association of Sarawak through the Club’s Christmas Giving Tree programme.
