2020 has been a very challenging year for all our us. The Covid-19 pandemic has caused the economy to deteriorate resulting in business failures and increase in unemployment rates. Similarly, with the Movement Control Order, most of our activities were put on hold and our Service Sundays were suspended. Aids were thus transferred to the bank accounts of our Friends-in-need as physical contacts were restricted.
We were not discouraged despite the gloomy outlook. With God’s grace, our team sprung to action to surge forward, thinking out of the box with new ideas to reach out to the poor and under-privileged.
- Covid-19 Emergency Support
Our 1st project was in response to the call from the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur in March 2020, to care for the needs of the vulnerable, elderly, sick, those who are living alone and those who have been affected financially by the Covid-19 crisis. We set up a Covid-19 Emergency Support team to deliver rations to the vulnerable segment i.e. the poor, aged, handicapped and those with medical issues. Through this initiative, we received a total donation of RM54,110. With the funds, we reached out to 44 families benefiting approx. 200 people monthly which comprised mainly of B40 group and the migrant communities. This is to tide them through the difficult period of which many of them were laid off as they were mainly on daily wages and contract basis.
- SFX Community Board
This led to our 2nd project. Realising that our own parishioners may also be suffering from the same fate, we set up a community board (together with PIHD), to match the needs of those looking for jobs and parishioners who are in a position to hire these individuals. SFX Community Board was launched on 3rd October 2020 just before the 2nd wave of Covid-19. The community board has now evolved to include sharing of service providers, postings of notices provided by Government agencies, private enterprises and NGOs that covers financial aids, training and retraining of skills and other related empowering works.
State Council of Selangor 