catholic church helping the flood victims in kedah

… irrespective of race and religion.

on 9 nov., tuesday, two staff of the penang office for human development (POHD), together with a few volunteers went to alor setar for the church’s flood relief operation. they brought along lots of food supplies. i was suppose to follow them (we are colleagues but different ministry),  but too bad i cant’ go because i have to fill in the place of someone on leave in the office.  anyway the reason for me to be there, is of course first of all to help in the work (cleaning, washing, packing food supplies, etc) but second reason is to let me experienced it myself so that better for me to write about it (to two of our catholic publication i mean). anyway, stanley, who was there, has update what happens, with lots of photos in his facebook.  oh, the photos here are taken from his facebook. i hope you can go to his facebook album to see the rest of the photos.

there were about 7 of the volunteers from penang and butterworth and on the second day, they were joined by 15 catholic students from UUM. i read from stanley’s facebook that tomorrow the alor setar’s church’s parish human development committee members might join in the relief work.  if not mistaken, they will be back today but they might be going again

next week.  ahhh… then this time i can go along with them! hurray!

my colleagues helping out in the kedah flood relief operation reminded me of the great aceh tsunami in 2004. our office was turned into a relief centre and we went to help the residents in tanjung tokong area to clean their houses. see my write-up from these links.
packing relief centre (office)
helping on site (tg tokong) (photo album)
tsunami a year ago
btw, this sunday, the 2 northern state presidents and the national president of our society of st vincent de paul will be visiting the society in alor setar to see what aid they need, beside monetary aid (which was collected from members all over malaysia).
don’t forget to click on stanley’s facebook album to see the photos and read some updates. i hope non facebook users will be able to access the album.

NOTE:  first picture shows kevin, one of POHD staff giving rice to a victim. the last picture show two of the volunteers cleaning up a house.