"I have prayed for months for food since christmas is just around the corner while i have so many hungry children to feed. And then a miracle happened, God sent you guys to come with a truckload of rice for us. I'm so very thankful." Mak Ros-the leader of the Aborigines family of Batu tiga.
Sincerely that really touched our hearts for us city people to travel so far from KL to Kuantan just to give them a short visit. The smiles on their faces were more than enough for us i guess:> Although the christmas songs we've presented to them weren't truly practiced well, p.s: our bad!(we even forgot the lyrics at one end), they helped us to fill in the blanks. In the end, it is not the long journey that matters, but the smiles we've lighted up on their lives that count.It was certainly a queer sight for me as i noticed there are only women in the household. Where are the men?? Then i learnt, these folks' husbands, the breadwinners are away working overseas like in Singapore, Thailand and so on. As we all know when guys have success and riches, some would result in having affairs and even mistresses. When these happen, the wives at home are left abandoned without anyone to take care of their welfare.
There was once this husband who left for a logging company in Thailand. Needless to say what our fair neighbours are famous with, yes u guessed it!- prostitutes(in better words,service providers) He had a one night stand with a hooker and alas! He contracted AIDS from her. It's even sadder to hear that his one mistake has costed two innocent babies of his to contract this scary disease too. BABIES!!! Can you feel my outrage?? They're so innocent, why should they be punished by their father's mistake??
And then all of us RYM youth members went for our dinner, at 10:( sad empty stomachs
shall upload the pictures soon when the cameramen have uploaded theirs.
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