GOPENG: When highlighted recently about the plight of the Orang Asli communities faces under the current Movement Control Order, the Lions Club of Evergreen (LCIE) president Sylvia Lee led a team of eight members to provide food assistance under the “Feed the Hungry” program to 11 villages around Gopeng and Simpang Pulai, here.
A total of 220 Orang Asli families with more than a thousand villagers received the aid totaling more than RM11,000.
The food included rice, eggs, noodles, cooking oil, biscuits, canned food, sugar, tea and clothes to help the families reduce their living expenses impacted by the pandemic.
Sylvia said the Orang Asli villagers were badly affected as they depended on products from the neighbouring jungle for livelihood.
“The movement restriction forced them to stay home, and they were not allowed to sell their wares that included durian and petai,” she said.
Also present were Teja State Assemblyman Sandrea Ng, Visiting Lions Cabinet Officers Elvin Wong, Constance Choo and Joseph Tan.
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