Rotary Club in Sitiawan, Malaysia set up a Mini market for the hard core poor

It’s a mini-market with a huge difference for some of the hard core poor in the Manjung district in Perak. Upon registration, they just have to go to the “Drop-in Centre” to collect necessities such as cooking oil, rice, milk, canned food and even clothes (new as well as second-hand, cleaned and plastic-wrapped), for free.

The project was mooted by President S. Loganathan two months ago as a project of the Rotary Club of Sitiawan.

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Do you know these sobering facts?

Each year in the world over 8 million people die because they are simply too poor to stay alive !
More than 800 million people go hungry every day in the world !
The GDP of the poorest 48 nations is less than the wealth of the world's three richest people !
30,000 children die every day in the world due to hunger and treatable illnesses !
6 million children die every year before their fifth birthday in the world , as a result of malnutrition !