BUKIT MERTAJAM: One Hope Charity and Welfare has been beseeched by phone calls from many institute of higher learning (IPT) students from the B40 group nationwide facing hardship due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
Most of the calls sought help with daily necessities and personal protective equipment as parents could not afford to provide them due to financial problems.
Looking at the tough predicament faced by the students, One Hope Charity chairman Datuk Chua Sui Hau decided to help 1,000 IPT students from eligible B40 families throughout Peninsular Malaysia through the provision of food baskets.
He said the care baskets worth RM250 each contained essential needs comprising dry food and personal protective needs such as face masks and disinfectant liquids.
"These essential items will be packed in boxes and given to the courier company which is then sent directly to the campus hostels and off-campus hostels as soon as the applicant's application is approved.
"Students who wish to apply are required to apply online through the ONE HOPE CHARITY & WELFARE website with the link https://www.onehopecharity.org/onehope-aid-form/," he said here today.
He explained that his party spent a total of RM250,000 to make the charity mission a success.
"IPT students wishing to apply are advised to fill in the correct and complete details so that the appointed courier company can carry out their deliveries more smoothly," he said.
Chua said the programme was undertaken as they understood the predicament faced by families who were severely affected and experienced income reduction due to the pandemic that struck the country last March.
"We took the initiative to send food baskets using courier companies to reduce social interaction and break the chain of the pandemic," he said.
