Every year, couple deliver supplies to remote Indonesian islands on their ship

Granger (left) and Macoun receiving a stack of books from Popular in front of their vessel Vega berthed at Straits Quay in Penang. The books are among many donated in a campaign for the couple’s mission.

AMERICAN Shane Granger, 67, and his German partner Meggi Macoun, 50, became emotional when they spoke about their mission to help the people of poverty-stricken East Timor (Timor-Leste).

Macoun said the couple saw children there going hungry and getting sick and this was why they used their 120-year-old Norwegian-built vessel Vega to deliver health and educational supplies to the remote islands of East Timor and east Indonesia.