KUCHING: Hope Place Kuching presented a one-off assistance in the form of food items like rice, cooking oil, Milo, biscuits, noodles, sugar and salt to a needy family in Serian District.
After being informed about the family by a teacher, a team from Hope Place, led by its founder Kelvin Wan, visited the family and was shocked to find the family living in a house made entirely of bamboo.
When the team arrived at the house, which is quite a distance from the main road, only 14-year-old Harryson Rosmany was alone at home as his parents and sister had gone to town.
When Kelvin asked Harryson why was he alone in the house, he replied that his father had a motorcycle and could not carry more than two pillion riders when they rode to town so he had to stay behind.
The small single-room house is not equipped with electricity or water supply. There is no partition to the kitchen. The walls of the house are riddled with holes.
At night, two mattresses are laid on the floor for the family of four to sleep on and during the day, the mattresses are placed against the wall to provide more space in the house.
Harryson goes to a public school where he is now in Form 2. Every day he walks for four kilometres to the main road to catch a bus to go school.
The teacher, who informed Hope Place about the family, had also suggested Hope Place to sponsor extra pairs of shoes and socks for Harryson and his younger sister.
Kelvin therefore took Harryson out to Serian town to buy him and his sister extra pairs of shoes and several pairs socks. It was learnt that someone had generously sponsored the shoes and socks.
Meanwhile, Hope Place is a non-government charitable organisation that looks after the needy and the less fortunate families and individuals by providing them with essential food items like rice, cooking oil, sugar, salt, biscuits, and noodles.
Its staff or volunteers will visit them every two months to deliver the essential food items.
