MIGRANT workers who earn daily wages, involved in woodwork, welding and other forms of menial labour, have been hit hard by the movement control order (MCO) put in place on March 18 to curb the Covid-19 outbreak.
Small businesses are closed and people are told to remain indoors. These foreign workers are now denied their daily wages and can barely feed their loved ones or themselves.
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Good samaritan, Philip Andrew De Silva (right) giving out cooked food to migrants workers in Port Klang as almost all are struggling to buy food, without their daily wage.
Migrant workers with their food in plastic bags they received from Philip Andrew De Silva, who has reached out to the workers.
Workers live in the ramshackel huts they built with scrap wood in Port Klang.
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