A food bank is becoming a familiar concept in Malaysia nowadays but setting one up in the early days wasn’t so easy, as Food Aid Foundation operations director Hayati Ismail found out.
For one thing, the foundation wasn’t allowed to use the word “food bank” in its registration when it was set up in 2013 – because “the word ‘bank’ can only be used by financial institutions”.
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