Every year, Ramah and her four children from the Simpang Arang village in Johor would go looking for clams and other seafood at a nearby mangrove forest to make their favourite dishes for Christmas.
Their celebrations were made extra special this year with groceries provided by the Johor Baru Calvary Community Church.
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Their celebrations were made extra special this year with groceries provided by the Johor Baru Calvary Community Church.
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00:00Forty-eight Orang Asli families from the Simpang Arang village in Johor have received groceries
00:08and other goodies from a church recently.
00:11The contributions came handy, as they would be able to use them to cook their favorite
00:15food, including seafood dishes, for Christmas.
00:19Thirty-seven-year-old Rama said every Christmas her family and children would look for clams
00:24and other seafood in a nearby mangrove forest and look forward to good food, gifts and new
00:29clothing during their celebration next week.
00:36She said her children are hoping for a Christmas tree this year.
00:40Twenty-four-year-old Helene said her family expected their Christmas to be filled with
00:44food and carols.
00:46Under its Sekilokasi program, the Johor Baru Kalvari Community Church said its volunteers
00:52and members distributed groceries to some 1,000 families in Johor and Malacca this time.
00:58Sekilokasi started nine years ago and we've been doing it for the past nine years.
01:03I always think how during Christmas, all of us have homes to go to, nice food that we
01:09can eat and family that we can, you know, spend time with.
01:13But then I realized that there are many people that are not so well-to-do and they may not
01:17have the same luxury as us.
01:20And so I thought, why don't us as the church put in our resources to help people who are
01:27less fortunate than us, and then we can use our means to even just come up with a kilo
01:34of kindness during the Christmas season.
01:37One of our friends, friend actually, we reached out to him, he's actually a diabetic patient.
01:42So due to that, he had to go through amputation of his leg.
01:46Once we heard, you know, what was happening with him, we immediately took him back and
01:49went over to his house.
01:50We had a good time there and actually we even managed to get a chance to pray for him as well.
01:55I think it was very good to see people being blessed by Sekilokakse.
02:00So I think that was one memory that will always hold on to me.
02:03Each bag that the church distributed contained about 100 ringgit worth of groceries, including
02:08cooking oil, instant noodles, biscuits, canned sardines and other dry food.
02:14Besides providing aid to the Orang Asli, the church said it will give out goodies to the
02:18Rohingya community to lessen their financial burden during the festive season.
02:25For more information, visit www.fema.org