Reaching out to 100 needy households

Hemavathy (second from right) with volunteer friends handing over essential items to Ramoo (second from left) at her home at Ashby Road flats. — RONNIE CHIN/The Star

AFTER realising there was a lack of charity groups set up in Ipoh to deliver essential goods to the needy, a freelance writer-cum-editor decided to do something about it.

S. Hemavathy, 38, said several chapters of Caremongering Malaysia had mushroomed in the Klang Valley when the movement control order (MCO) was first imposed on March 18 but she found there was no such group set up in Ipoh.