The last two days, DAP Sarawak has gone all out to collect relief funds for the victims of the natural disaster in China and Myanmar. In Sibu, DAP leaders and party members went out on the streets on Saturday and Sunday to solicit fund for the victims for our onward transmission to DAP National tomorrow.
We found the respond overwhelming as only a small percentage of the public did not folk out. It shows that although we are facing our own economy downturn, we still have the hearts in us to donate to the victims of other countries.
Yes, we did face some weird person, only a hand full out of the hundreds that we approached, who have lost the most precious value as a human being, a caring heart and the lost of humanity. One in particular said that there are more than a billion Chinese, what is the big deal of losing some 50,000. Another said that it is OK to donate to the Chinese but not to the Burmese!
But our teams were not turn down by such characters as they are afterall less than human and we have to focus on the positive response from the crowd. Caring without racial or ethnic boundaries whereby donors from all walks of live and from all religious and cultural spectrum all donated generously to the relief fund. Many told us how they cry when they saw the photos of kids and school children being exposed and found dead on TV and in the papers.
In total, DAP Sarawak has managed to collect some RM 72,740.10 during the weekend and we in Sibu have managed to collect some RM 30,000 for the victims in china and Mymmar. We have to thank the people in Sarawak who have shown to the world that we care and we have not lost our most precious value, love and a caring heart that transcend racial and geographic boundaries. Thanks again and there is hope in the world as long as there is still love left in us!
David Wong
26-05-2008
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