PETALING JAYA: As health and security personnel tirelessly work to contain the Covid-19 outbreak, non-governmental organisations along with individuals are stepping in to ensure they don’t go hungry.
Kembara Kitchen co-founder YiLyn Chan said there were volunteers preparing hot food for those on night shift at Hospital Sungai Buloh’s (HSB) Covid-19 screening centre as well as for staff at the Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Klang (HTAR) emergency department and screening centre.
“We act as gap fillers, meaning we don’t give if there is no need and we make sure to speak to the people in charge first to find out what they want.
“We want to ensure there is no wastage as this is what happens when people just give without considering the need,” she said.
At HTAR, volunteers from Kembara Kitchen are currently supplying hot food for 120 pax daily, said Chan, adding that for both hospitals, they try to cap the cost of food at RM5 per head.
Besides hot food, Kembara Kitchen also delivers items such as nutty milk, isotonic drinks and bread to HTAR and HSB on behalf of corporate sponsors.
Kembara Kitchen has been sending dry food to medical workers at Hospital Banting along with care packages to the police.
“Not many people are helping the police although they are standing under the hot sun at roadblocks to ensure people’s safety. So we are also diverting our resources to them,” she said.
Volunteers with care packages, which include face masks, gloves and hand sanitisers, would hand them to police personnel when they happened to pass by roadblocks, she said.
Besides that, Kembara Kitchen is also currently preparing 500 care packs for families all over Klang Valley, who have lost their income during the MCO.
The cost for 300 care packs is about RM12,000, said Chan, adding that each care pack costs between RM40 and RM50.
“We have Lalamove supporting us logistics-wise by helping to deliver these care packs for free,” she said.
In Seremban, restaurateur T. Thanabalan and his workers have been providing dinner for some 60 frontliners at the state Health Department since March 23.
“When I heard Seremban was ranked among the top spots for Covid-19 positive cases, I wondered how the frontliners, especially those with families, would cope.
“So I decided to do my bit by preparing dinner for them,” he said when met while distributing dinner packets at the Health Department here.
Thanabalan said the need to help frontliners became necessary when the state government directed all eateries to shut by 8pm.
“I decided to continue providing dinner to the frontliners as I am told they work till very late,” he said, adding that his workers practised a high level of hygiene by wearing gloves and masks when preparing meals.
Kembara Kitchen co-founder YiLyn Chan said there were volunteers preparing hot food for those on night shift at Hospital Sungai Buloh’s (HSB) Covid-19 screening centre as well as for staff at the Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Klang (HTAR) emergency department and screening centre.
“We act as gap fillers, meaning we don’t give if there is no need and we make sure to speak to the people in charge first to find out what they want.
“We want to ensure there is no wastage as this is what happens when people just give without considering the need,” she said.
At HTAR, volunteers from Kembara Kitchen are currently supplying hot food for 120 pax daily, said Chan, adding that for both hospitals, they try to cap the cost of food at RM5 per head.
Besides hot food, Kembara Kitchen also delivers items such as nutty milk, isotonic drinks and bread to HTAR and HSB on behalf of corporate sponsors.
Kembara Kitchen has been sending dry food to medical workers at Hospital Banting along with care packages to the police.
“Not many people are helping the police although they are standing under the hot sun at roadblocks to ensure people’s safety. So we are also diverting our resources to them,” she said.
Volunteers with care packages, which include face masks, gloves and hand sanitisers, would hand them to police personnel when they happened to pass by roadblocks, she said.
Besides that, Kembara Kitchen is also currently preparing 500 care packs for families all over Klang Valley, who have lost their income during the MCO.
The cost for 300 care packs is about RM12,000, said Chan, adding that each care pack costs between RM40 and RM50.
“We have Lalamove supporting us logistics-wise by helping to deliver these care packs for free,” she said.
In Seremban, restaurateur T. Thanabalan and his workers have been providing dinner for some 60 frontliners at the state Health Department since March 23.
“When I heard Seremban was ranked among the top spots for Covid-19 positive cases, I wondered how the frontliners, especially those with families, would cope.
“So I decided to do my bit by preparing dinner for them,” he said when met while distributing dinner packets at the Health Department here.
Thanabalan said the need to help frontliners became necessary when the state government directed all eateries to shut by 8pm.
“I decided to continue providing dinner to the frontliners as I am told they work till very late,” he said, adding that his workers practised a high level of hygiene by wearing gloves and masks when preparing meals.
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