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As Grab drivers, we often find ourselves driving through parts of KL that we normally wouldn’t go to on our own. Along the way, we witness poignant scenes, especially at night, individuals sleeping on the streets or children going through bins looking for plastic bottles and cans they can sell to the “sau kau poh chi man” for money to pay for essentials they need at home. Sometimes, we have passengers who would rather walk home with their bags just to save a few ringgit. It’s especially heartbreaking when we see elderly individuals, who lack the energy to make such a journey. As drivers, we share stories of our encounters with each other and it’s sad.
So recently, over 120 Grab drivers and delivery riders had the opportunity to do something different for Chinese New Year.
A Mobile Soup Kitchen outreach program to “extend a hand” to less fortunate families and homeless individuals in certain areas of Laval this winter was recently launched by Vimy Liberal MP Eva Nassif in conjunction with the Constituency Youth Council (CYC) in her riding.
It’s been 15 years since the first Shoprite Mobile Soup Kitchen trucks set out on a journey to combat hunger in South Africa. The programme that started in 2007 with just three trucks serving Gauteng and the North West province, has grown into a fleet of 32 trucks serving all provinces.