SIBU: Lanang service centre has extended a helping hand by rescuing and placing a family of four who was staying in a makeshift hut in Sibujaya to Sibu temporary transit centre (TTG).
Lanang MP, Alice Lau in her Facebook post yesterday said that the woman identified as Rose Akam, 53, and her three children, aged between 12 and 23, were found by her service centre team led by Stanley Chiew.
“This morning (March 9), my Lanang service centre helps to send a family to Sibu TTG. Prior to that, the team had on February 18, visited them.
“The family is homeless due to family problem. The woman, together with her children, do not have birth certificates and identity cards,” she said.
Lau further said that her service centre had contacted Sibu TTG and the Welfare Department to channel aid to them, including helping them apply for personal documents.
“As for their future, TTG will find a suitable place for them to stay while CCEP (Community Care Enrichment Programme) Foundation will pay for their house rental for one year,” she said,
The woman from Nanga Ensengai in Kanowit and her children have been living in the bush for more than a year after she and her husband separated.
In order to make ends meet, Rose and her children would collect ‘midin’ (wild fern) and other forest produce to sell at the Sibujaya market.
