Benevolence on display as central market traders donate to society

A stall owner handing over pumpkins for Sibu Benevolent Society to Chew at the central market.

“Jing gu long mo kang yien lo” was the greeting in the Foochow dialect from central market hawkers when they saw volunteers of Sibu Benevolent Society resuming their Sunday collection of groceries.

Loosely translated as “long time no see”, the volunteers led by the society’s vice-chairman Robert Chew had stopped their Sunday routine for eight months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.