New strategy needed

A volunteer who wished to be called Madam Ling (left) distributing food to the needy at the Goddess of Mercy Temple in Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling. — Photos: MUSTAFA AHMAD and LIM BENG TATT/The Star

DRIVEN by compassion, charitable bodies and kind souls are distributing meals and supplies to the poor.

Around Komtar in Penang, hundreds of the poor lie on cardboard sheets, waiting for the aid.People can be seen giving them food.