Description: Kuching Food Aid is a community lead initiative providing food aid through supermarkets to Sarawak’s most vulnerable.
Typical RM60 Food Aid Box may include*
We help families facing food insecurity in Sarawak from impoverished communities who have been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of our food aid recipients are single mothers caring for young children, the sick, elderly and differently abled. Other recipients include rural farmers, fishermen and labourers dependent on a daily wage to make a living. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant job losses and many families have spiralled downwards into worsening poverty.
Lawas is a border town sandwiched in between Miri, Brunei and Sabah. Villagers from the surrounding villages are mainly fishermen, farmers and labourers dependent on a daily wage to make a living. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant job losses and many families have spiralled downwards into worsening poverty. Families are often large with between 5-10 children living under one roof and food insecurity has become a serious reality for many. Food aid has provided a life line to these families, many o