23/4/2020 Are food packages given properly?

A letter of complaint to Talikhimat

        Are food packages given properly?    23/4/2020

On behalf of the needy especially B40 in food aids, I would like the attention of  the ministry of  Welfare Departments, Sarawak to ensure the standard food package /basket to be given to each household .  Each package should contain the goods amounting to RM100.  The items given should be cleary directed to give 2 - 10-kg bags of rice =RM50.00; a 5-kg bottle of oil = RM 20;  two kilos of flour = RM6.00; two kilo of sugar = RM 7.00; and 1-kilo of milk power = RM15.  This is the rough calculation of a package food aid around RM100.00 to be given to each household.

        It is shocking to me to see that the food aids given to the needy fall far below the expected standard.  We have the evidence to prove these shortcomings.  How can you expect us rakyat to entrust Sarawak to the government which is not able to do the work properly? 

        We have enough NGOs to watch the delivery of food aids to each household.  We know that each constituency is given RM200,000.  That means that if each household in need is given a RM100.00 worth of food basket/package.  About 1000 households will benefit from the fund of RM200,000. 

We have 82 assemblypersons and so 82X RM200,000 = RM16,400,000 (RM16 million and 4 hundred thousand  ) at their disposal all for the food aids for the households in need of assistance.  I understand that there is an allocation of fund  for the transport charges and the like. 

        We would appeal to each recipients to take the picture of the food package received and calculated the amount.  Justice should be done accordingly.

         Besides, it is said that 1000 food packages from the so-called federal government to each  so-called federal constituency and has reduced to 150 food packages instead of 1000.

Thank you for your attention and consideration.

Yours faithfully,

Belinda Ling Moi Hung.