Here you go: Firemen and Civil Defence Force personnel making a human chain to load up a helicopter with the food items meant for the Orang Asli villages in Kelantan. — Bernama
GUA MUSANG: The Fire and Rescue Department’s Air Unit has sent 6,255kg of food aid to four Orang Asli villages in this district in preparation for the north-east monsoon.
The aid was sent via a Mi-17-IV helicopter to 417 families in Kampung Gob, Kampung Simpor, Kampung Gawin and Kampung Jader on Thursday and yesterday, Bernama reported.
The items sent were rice, sugar, biscuits, sardines, and wheat flour.
Nenggiri assemblyman Ab Aziz Yusoff said the delivery was a proactive measure to send food to Orang Asli villages that are far away and difficult to reach.
“The district disaster committee, through the Land Office and the state assembly service centre, cooperated to ask the department’s Air Unit to send food to the villages concerned.
“The delivery of these food baskets is a preliminary preparation and will be used if the food supply is cut off during the monsoon or flood season, so we start by going to the farthest inland post first,” he said when met at the Gua Musang District Council multi-purpose complex field yesterday.
Meanwhile, Fire and Rescue Department Subang air base public relations officer Mohd Hasrizal Kamaruzzaman said the flight to send food aid involved Pos Gob which sent 34 bags to Kampung Gawin and 153 bags to Perkampungan Gob on Thursday.
“For today, it involves Pos Simpor with 110 bags and Kampung Jader 120 bags of food, with each bag containing 15kg of food, including rice,” he said.
The flight carrying 10 crewmembers was led by Lieutenant Colonel Tengku Ahmad Shaiful Isnawi Tengku Muhamad and was assisted by members of the Malaysian Civil Defence Force.
