SHSH ALAM, Jan 31 (NNN-TRP) – A generous family living in Shah Alam, about 26 km from Kuala Lumpur, are being praised online after organising a free food bank, to help those who are financially struggling, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The family provided basic food items, such as cooking oil, bags of rice, sugar, canned mackerel, flour, and condensed milk, and set up the food bank just in front of their house. All members of the public were welcomed to self-collect whatever they need from the stock available.
Speaking to TRP, Marissa Zahara Binti Maslan, 24 shared that her parents, Maslan Urmin and Juraidah Atin, organised the food bank solely to help the needy who are financially affected by the pandemic.
Marissa shared that, her parents did the shopping for the supplies themselves, while putting her and siblings in charge of distributing and monitoring the food supply at the food bank.
As it was their first time organising such an effort, Marissa said, it was pretty challenging to keep everything in order and ensuring there was enough food to go round. The main concern was definitely not being able to provide for everyone and having to turn some people away when we ran out of supply. .Marissa said.
The response was so overwhelming that her father had to make 2-3 extra trips to the store to buy more supplies, adding that, although the food bank was yesterday (Jan 30), the family still has people ringing their doorbell today to ask for some food.
In a follow-up to her tweet, she said, all the items had been successfully donated in less than two hours after her first post, adding that another food bank will be organised by her family next week.
According to Marissa, her family is pleased to have been able to help more than 100 people and their families during yesterday’s event.
We’re just an everyday ordinary family, who is truly humbled and grateful for being able to do this, while receiving positive and kind words from so many people. Thank you.– NNN-TRP
