{"id":20171,"date":"2017-11-28T19:30:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T11:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=20171"},"modified":"2017-11-29T09:02:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T01:02:38","slug":"helping-out-the-less-fortunate-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=20171","title":{"rendered":"Helping out the less fortunate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Batu Kitang State Assemblyman, Lo Khere Chiang appealed to\u00a0members of the public to help by giving to the less fortunate in kind\u00a0or cash.<\/p>\n<p>Officiating the launch of the SUPP Batu Kitang Charity Drive this\u00a0afternoon at the Batu Kitang Service centre, Lo said with the end of\u00a0the year, they are preparing for the onset of heavy downpour.<\/p>\n<p>He said he hoped that there will no disaster as it always bring\u00a0hardship to the people. He added that everyone need to \u00a0prepare in case of\u00a0unforseen circumstances. &#8220;So I am appealing to those who has old\u00a0clothings, non perishable goods like canned food, rice, bottled water\u00a0or toys to pass to the various centres so that the Batu Kitang staff\u00a0can itemised and store it on their ground floor. We will keep the\u00a0public informed of items received now and then,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lo thanked SUPP Sentosa, Stakan branch, Kuching Branch and\u00a0Pending branch for assisting them in the project.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Organising Chairman of the Project, Gerald Goh said the\u00a0timing is good for the public to do their bit as December is the month\u00a0for Christmas which also calls for a spirit of caring and giving. He\u00a0said as the season of heavy rainfall always causes floods in low lying\u00a0Batu Kitang, the preparation of a stock to give up to needy people\u00a0will be timely.<\/p>\n<p>The Batu Kitang has set up a committee to manage collection centres at\u00a0different venue from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>Donors can also donate their items at collection centres in Spring,\u00a0Boulevard and Viva city shopping malls between\u00a010 am to 10 pm. The SJK\u00a0Chung Hua 4 and half mile will also be used to accept donation of\u00a0necessities\u00a0from December 1st\u00a0to 23rd daily\u00a0from 10 am to 12 noon\u00a0and\u00a02 pm to 4 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Donors can also drop their things at SUPP batu Kitang service centre\u00a0at telephone number\u00a0<a href=\"tel:0198199060\">0198199060<\/a>\u00a0or SUPP Centre Mile 10 with phone\u00a0number\u00a0<a href=\"tel:082%20611210\">082 611210<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also at the function was Chairperson for Kuching branch, Datuk Lily\u00a0Yong, Stakan Chairman, Sim Kiang Cheok and SUPP Batu Kitang members.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20173\" alt=\"unnamed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed11.jpg\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed11.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed11-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed11-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20172\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20172\" style=\"width: 4032px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed-16.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20172\" alt=\"Lo launching the charity drive\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed-16.jpg\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed-16.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed-16-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed-16-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lo launching the charity drive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batu Kitang State Assemblyman, Lo Khere Chiang appealed to\u00a0members of the public to help by giving to the less fortunate in kind\u00a0or cash. Officiating the launch of the SUPP Batu Kitang Charity Drive this\u00a0afternoon at the Batu Kitang Service centre, Lo said with the end of\u00a0the year, they are preparing for the onset of heavy downpour. He said he hoped that there will no disaster as it always bring\u00a0hardship to the people. He added that everyone need to \u00a0prepare in case of\u00a0unforseen circumstances. &#8220;So I am appealing to those who<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=20171\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20174,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20171\/revisions\/20174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}