“A bowl of plain rice with a fried egg is enough to make us feel contented as it has been a long time since we last had such a full meal,” said a Myanmar refugee as she choked with gratitude over the phone. This made volunteer See Kok Cha realize how easy it is to bring happiness to people who are suffering.
Tzu Chi is collaborating with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to launch the Covid-19 CBI project* to assist refugees in Malaysia. Since the commencement of the CBI project in April this year, Tzu Chi KL & Selangor hotline had successively received numerous reports about refugees who were evicted from their homes because they could no longer pay the rent and also families that were on the verge of running out of food and staples. Considering the fact that the refugees were in urgent need of food assistance, Tzu Chi KL & Selangor set up a Food Care project for refugees in mid-August this year, to hand out cash vouchers to families in need so that they could buy food at designated supermarkets during this period.
Volunteer See Kok Cha took on the role of the distribution team leader of the community’s Covid-19 CBI project. According to the information gathered from volunteers’ phone interviews with refugees and distribution reports, Kok Cha was saddened to learn that the refugees had no money, no job and were on the verge of running out of food amid the pandemic. Therefore, when he was approached to be the team leader of the distribution team for the Food Care project, not only did he feel obliged to do so, but he also readily participated in the distribution in view of the high number of applicants.
