上周日(12月16日)，民政党峇都区部同人特别安排了30户峇都区的贫苦家庭，来到白沙罗达迈的宜康省超级市场，让这30户家庭免费购物，每户家庭获得购买总价值200零吉的物品。
峇都区民政党服务中心协调员刘华才博士指出，他们举办这项有意义的活动是要让这些贫苦家庭买到他们真正需要的物品，因为他们发现很多时候通过派送礼篮未必能达到他们的需求。当天，这些家庭大都购买一些日常食用品，如白米、食油、饼干等；也有些家庭趁这机会为孩子们添购开学用品，大家都买得不亦乐乎。
"适逢圣诞节和学校新学年开学的来临，我们希望能献上一份关怀与爱心予弱势群体，并不分种族与宗教，以减轻他们的经济负担。在马来西亚这个多元文化的国度里，我们秉持互相尊重的精神，共同欢庆各种族的节日。"刘华才表示。
"值得一提的是，我们发现大部分的家庭都没有交通工具，一些长者也行动不便。因此我们特别租用了巴士，载送所有参与的家庭成员，让他们享受全家购物的欢乐。虽然民政党在308失去峇都国会议席而缺乏政府拨款，但我们仍然积极寻求商家的赞助，以继续帮助有需要的一群，我们也借此感谢宜康省的慷慨赞助。"刘华才补充。
刘华才博士也补充，这也是民政党峇都区部在推广"我爱峇都"计划下所展开的一系列活动之一。民政党将持续服务峇都国会选区的居民，照顾弱势群体，并解决他们的民生问题和提高他们的生活素质。
Batu Gerakan offers care for Christmas
30 poor families were arranged to shop in supermarket
Press statement by Batu Gerakan Service Centre Coordinator
Dr. Dominic Lau Hoe Chai
18 December 2012
Last Sunday (16 December), members of Gerakan Batu Division have arranged 30 poor families from the Batu area to shop for free in the Econsave located in Damansara Damai, each family was allowed to buy items that worth a total of RM 200.
Batu Gerakan Service Centre Coordinator Dr. Dominic Lau Hoe Chai pointed out that the purpose they organised such a meaningful programme was to allow these poor families to be able to buy the necessities they really needed, because they have found out that very often hampers presented to them may not be able to meet their needs. On that day, these families have commonly bought some daily food supplies such as rice, cooking oil, biscuits; some of the families also took the chance to buy school supplies for their children, all of them seemed to enjoy it.
"In conjunction with Christmas and school reopen for the new calendar year, we hope to dedicate our love and care for the disadvantaged groups regardless of race and creed, in order to levitate their financial burden. Malaysia as a multicultural country, we uphold the spirit of mutual respect, together we celebrate the festivals of all races," said Dr. Dominic Lau.
"We found out that most of the families do not posses a transport, some of the elders also plagued with reduced mobility. Therefore we specially rented a bus to carry all the participating families, so that they could enjoy the fun with family shopping. Although Gerakan lost the Batu parliamentary seat in 308 and now left with limited government allocations, but we still actively looking for sponsorships from companies, in order to continue helping those in need, we also would like to take this chance to thank the generous help by Econsave," added Dr. Dominic Lau.
Dr. Dominic Lau also added that it was one of the programmes under the "I Love Batu" plan that has been promoted by Gerakan Batu Division. Gerakan would continue to serve the residents of Batu parliamentary constituency, take care of the disadvantaged groups, solve their livelihood problems and improve their quality of life.
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