{"id":2483,"date":"2008-10-25T00:58:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T16:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/others\/2008\/10\/25\/mic-youth-helps-3-poor-families\/"},"modified":"2008-10-25T01:04:04","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T17:04:04","slug":"mic-youth-helps-3-poor-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/10\/25\/mic-youth-helps-3-poor-families\/","title":{"rendered":"MIC Youth helps 3 poor families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not bad, MIC Youth manages to upstage Pakatan governmenti in Penang by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Friday\/National\/2384247\/Article\/index_html\">providing help to the families<\/a>. Not sure where the current state government reps are. Busy with Deepavali preparation? Or solving flood problems?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, one can wonder what the state MIC had been doing all this while.  Well, better late than never.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Barely a day after their plight was highlighted, help has poured in for three hardcore poor families living in dilapidated pre-war houses in Kampung Minyak, Jalan Datuk Keramat, here.<\/p>\n<p>At noon yesterday, Penang MIC Youth members led by treasurer J. Dhinagaran, brought cheer to the families by donating food to them for the Deepavali celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>They gave packets of rice, oil, vegetables and muruku to the delighted families.<\/p>\n<p>Dhinagaran also presented them with a contribution of RM200 each. The state MIC Youth also agreed to adopt two of the three families.<\/p>\n<p>A good Samaritan who wished to be known only as &#8220;Sim&#8221; also donated RM200 to each of the families.<br \/>\nK. Pynthamilselvi, 27, who was photographed in tears in the New Straits Times yesterday, was all smiles when she received the gifts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am so grateful to the state MIC Youth members as well as the good Samaritan who came to my aid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Deepavali celebrations this year will be meaningful for me and my children,&#8221; said the mother of three young children, whose husband is in prison.<\/p>\n<p>At present, the Sadhu Vaswani Group is providing food for the family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really don&#8217;t know how to thank those who helped me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only God can repay your kindness,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>R. Ravichandran, 42, said he would always cherish the kind gesture of the state MIC Youth and Sim.<\/p>\n<p>Ravichandran, a father of six and whose wife, S. Selvarani, 36, is mentally ill, said his family would be receiving monthly food aid from the state MIC Youth.<\/p>\n<p>S. Kananghambal, 42, will also receive monthly food aid from state MIC Youth.<\/p>\n<p>Dhinagaran said he was moved by the families&#8217; plight and decided to lend a hand.<\/p>\n<p>He said he hoped the state government would do all it could to assist the three families, especially to obtain low-cost housing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Did you realise that the words &#8220;MIC Youth&#8221; appeared 6 times in the article? PR kaw kaw la!. Well done!<\/p>\n<p class=\"flockcredit\" style=\"text-align: right; color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small\">Blogged with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flock.com\/blogged-with-flock\" style=\"color: #999999; font-weight: bold\" target=\"_new\" title=\"Flock Browser\">Flock Browser<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not bad, MIC Youth manages to upstage Pakatan governmenti in Penang by providing help to the families. Not sure where the current state government reps are. Busy with Deepavali preparation? Or solving flood problems? Anyway, one can wonder what the state MIC had been doing all this while. Well, better late than never. 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