Keeping hope alive in Kuching


Hope Place members delivering food aid to Kampung Bako by boat when the village was placed under the enhanced movement control order. Photos: ZULAZHAR SHEBLEE/The Star

WITH Covid-19 continuing to impact lives and livelihoods, generous people in Kuching, Sarawak, are coming forward to help charitable organisations like Hope Place carry on serving needy families under its care.

One such person is businesswoman Kelly Lau, who has been supporting Hope Place since it started in 2013 by collecting funds from friends to buy food and other needed supplies to be donated to the non-governmental organisation (NGO).

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