Lessening Syrian war victims’ burden

Tan (left), Lim (second left) and his wife Puan Sri Tong Siew Bee (first right) as well as Bina Puri Mining executive chairman Datuk Yong Seng Yeow (second from right) distributing school bags to Syrian children at the El Menahil International School in Sultangazi.

NINE-year-old Chan Zhi Hong got up close and personal with the impact of war when he joined his parents on Tzu Chi Foundation’s humanitarian mission to aid Syrian refugees in Turkey recently.

In his blog, the youngest volunteer in the mission expressed his anger over the ongoing war that had caused unimaginable hardship to the people of the country.