Storybooks bring smiles to underprivileged children

(From second left ) Fatimah, Ung and Paradigm Mall advertising and promotions manager Joanne Lee with some of the children at the Christmas event. —LOW BOON TAT/The Star

BOOKS for A Better World (BFBW) collaborated with Kiwanis Club of Taman Tun Dr Ismail (KCTTDI) to sponsor storybooks for needy children.

More than 730 books were sponsored, with 55 gifted during a Christmas event at Paradigm Mall in Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

The mall also presented additional gifts of their own for the children.

A choir from Ruth Education Centre (REC), a church-run school for refugee children from Myanmar, gave an excellent performance that brightened the occasion.

The REC children along with other young Myanmarese refugees from an organisation called Perch all received books.

KCTTDI president Datuk Fatimah Saad said, “The club will focus on improving literacy among children for the next five years, especially the underprivileged and refugees.

“More than 400 books are scheduled to be delivered to Yayasan Chow Kit, the TTDI public library, Church of Divine Mercy in Shah Alam, Christ Lutheran Church, Church of St. Francis Xavier and PPKI SMK Kiaramas.”

BFBW chief executive officer Adrian Ung thanked book donors and volunteers who had wrapped the books in time for Christmas.

“We hope that we can collaborate again with the club to get more books donated to the Taman Tun Dr Ismail public library,” Ung said at the event. — By CHAN MEI YEE