Help for hungry undergrads


Good deed: Kami Prihatin (We Care) project manager Wang Wee Foong (left) who is also the student council vice-president II helping to distribute meals to students from poor families at a hostel in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang.

PETALING JAYA: Seeing students struggling in universities due to lack of money, even to eat, is not new but with the rising cost of living, it is a serious problem now.

It has reached the point where more and more student bodies are having to help them get regular meals. And the number of such needy students is growing.

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