Families living at Sandakan landfill get a helping hand

Deplorable conditions: The families scavenge whatever they can and sell them for as little as RM3.

KOTA KINABALU: The children enthusias­tically greeted a team of volunteers who arrived at the Sandakan landfill to hand over daily essentials to the residents.

The children, mostly clad in shabby and dirty clothes, are from the families living among tonnes of trash there.