An Afternoon With The Children At The Good Samaritan Home

Jonathan, Jay, Rachel, William, Brian, Joy, John, Angel, Lianne, Timothy, Mary, Samuel, James, Hannah, Thomas, Chris, Michelle, Jackson, and Mrs Ong (in black) of the Good Samaritan Home with The Zestzfulness Team last Sunday afternoon after games, ice cream, doughnuts and wadai.

We also brought along valuable donations in kind from, in alphabetical order, Abbott Laboratories, Boehringer Ingelheim, CCM Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline, Kotra Pharma, Merck, and Y.S.P Industries. We are grateful to Brian of Boehringer, in the photo carrying his namesake, who came in his personal capacity. And we are grateful to the Good Samaritan Home for allowing us this learning experience.

The children receive primary education in Chinese, which explains the bald heads, and then follow on to national secondary schools. Established in 1999, the home now has a number of their charges in local universities.

We learnt from Mrs Ong that it costs almost RM80,000 a month to operate the home. They don’t beg but help is most welcome and we were happy to make a small donation.

You can get more info on the Good Samaritan Home on this website or from their infrequent blog

Really, you should just get into the car, call on them HERE and find out for yourself what they need!