SUNGAI SIPUT: This Chinese New Year will be special for a nonagenarian who will celebrate the festive period in a newly rebuilt house.
The 92-year-old woman could not be more happier and grateful for spending Chinese New Year in a brand new house, instead of her old wooden dilapidated house.
The house was constructed under a programme by the Housing and Local Government Ministry.
Liew Keow from the Rimba Panjang Chinese New Village here has been staying in her prior run-down wooden house for the past 50 years.
“However over the years, my home began to crumble, with the roof leaking badly, and the whole structure in a run-down state.
“I am so happy that the kind minister (referring to Nga Kor Ming) and the Jalong assemblyman Loh Sze Yee looked into my plight and rebuilt a new concrete house,” she told reporters after Nga visited her on Saturday (Jan 25).
Liew lives in the house with two of her unmarried sons aged 63 and 62.
The new house has three bedrooms, a toilet and a kitchen.
“I have received food hampers and “Angpows” as well. This is definitely a very lucky Chinese New Year for me.
“We were living in a very poor and dangerous condition, but I am glad that is all over now,” she added.
Nga said the house was among 21 houses constructed nationwide under the New Village People’s Madani House programme.
He said these were homes that were unsafe for occupancy, and uneconomical to repair.
He said a total of 282 houses nationwide were also repaired for low-income residents under the New Village House Repair Assistance programme.
