PETALING JAYA: Mercy Malaysia has launched a “Ramadan Appeal 2020” fund for communities and families affected by the Covid-19 outbreak.
The humanitarian aid body said funds raised would be used to purchase food parcels, enough to feed a family of four, for“Since the movement control order began, we have started receiving requests for food aid from families who live on daily wages, been told to go on no-pay leave or been outrightly terminated. With the MCO being further extended, far more people will be affected, ” said Mercy Malaysia executive director Amran Mahzan in a statement on Friday .
He said that the public could channel any “direct and indirect savings to a good cause during the month of Ramadan” through donations that would help those hit hardest by the MCO and had lost their source of income. “In a survey conducted by the Statistics Department, 46.6% of self-employed respondents had reported losing their jobs due to Covid-19 and MCO enforcement, with the agricultural and service sectors recording the highest percentage of job losses”, he said.or contact the Malaysian Medical Relief Society for more details. All donations are tax-exempted.
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