Hot meals made with love for Klang’s poor and homeless

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Every Saturday, Ave Maria Soup Kitchen volunteers prepare 350 packets of food for the poor and homeless in Klang and Port Klang.     Story by: Sheela Vijayan Shot by: Tinagaren Ramkumar, Muhaimin Marwan & Fauzi Yunus Presented by: Theevya Ragu Edited by: Kiera Amin   Read More: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/leisure/2024/04/28/hot-meals-made-with-love-for-klangs-poor-and-homeless/   Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Follow FMT on Facebook: https://bit.ly/49JJoo5 Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM Follow FMT on X: https://bit.ly/48zARSW  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/48Cq76h Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3uKuQFp Follow FMT Berita on TikTok: https://bit.ly/48vpnQG  Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/42VyzMX Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/42YytEb Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/42WrsUj Follow FMT on WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/49GMbxW  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download FMT News App: Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46 App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP  #FMTLifestyle #AveMariaSoupKitchen #StreetFeeding #Homeless

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00:00 For the poor and homeless, going hungry is common, but while they have accepted it as

00:06 their fate, one group in Klang is determined to change that.

00:19 Every Saturday morning, volunteers of the Ave Maria Soup Kitchen under the Our Lady

00:24 of Lourdes Church in Klang prepare 350 packets of food for the needy.

00:31 The soup kitchen was set up in 2016 with the sole mission of showing mercy to the less

00:37 fortunate.

00:38 Actually, year 2016 is actually the year of mercy.

00:44 Our Pope declared it as the year of mercy.

00:47 And we in Women's Test, we suggested the soup kitchen.

00:55 Although the idea was mooted by women, it didn't stop the men from volunteering too.

01:01 FMT Lifestyle paid the volunteers at the soup kitchen a visit on a sunny Saturday morning.

01:08 And even as early as 8.30am, the kitchen was a hive of activity, with everyone busy chopping,

01:16 cooking, washing dishes, and packing the food for distribution.

01:21 Once done, Philip Andrew da Silva, Assistant Coordinator of the Soup Kitchen, distributed

01:26 the food packets to the poor and homeless at five locations in Klang and Port Klang.

01:32 Some volunteers also delivered the food packets to two children's homes and a non-profit

01:38 organization that also feeds the poor.

01:41 Over the years, the soup kitchen volunteers have seen for themselves just how tough life

01:47 can be for the less fortunate.

01:49 For example, a person who is using substance, of course they go for rehabilitation.

01:58 The government comes and scoops them out, and takes them up and they will send them

02:03 to rehabilitation.

02:05 The problem is they cannot go back to their family.

02:09 The family have already ostracized them.

02:12 They do not have a place and of course they cannot get a job.

02:16 Because the first thing they'll ask you is your previous, what were you doing?

02:20 You will not get a job.

02:22 So it's a vicious cycle.

02:24 So what they do is actually, they survive by getting recycling items, like cardboard

02:31 and all that.

02:32 That's how they survive.

02:34 However, every Saturday, each food packet from the Ave Maria Soup Kitchen is a heartwarming

02:39 reminder that the poor and homeless too have a place in society.

02:46 Sometimes when you give, you get to talk to them and you can see they are so happy.

02:53 So that itself is a big satisfaction.

02:57 The fact that they get, they are happy.

02:59 Divya Ragu and Sheila Vijayan, FMT Lifestyle.

03:02 [music]

03:03 [applause]

03:03 (applause)

03:05 (applause)

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