Saturday, 7 February 2009

Mercy Relief Singapore sending supplies to Gaza

I am in El Arish right now, 6hours behind Singapore-Malaysia times, a seaside town about four hours from Cairo and facing the Mediterranean Sea.
The temperature at 7am just now was about 8 degrees C or thereabouts.

The sprawling town is next door to Rafah town which we will go to in about an hour's time.

Yesterday me and the team from Mercy Relief Singapore were in Cairo, to check the humanitarian group's sugar and flour supplies to be sent into Gaza by the Egyptian Red Cross.

Mercy is sending 60,000 tons of flour, 30,000 tons of sugar, medical supplies, baby milk, canned milk, hygiene packs etc donated by Singaporeans. Worth USD126,000.
Donated through groups such as Islamic Religious Council, the National Council of Churches, the Singapore Buddhist Lodge, Singapore's Inter Religious Organisation.
Dude, people are dying are suffering, so Singaporeans set aside their differentreligious beliefs, I am happy to report.

But guess what? I am not so concerned about Gaza as Perak state in my adopted country.
What gives? The most enlightened royal house in Malaysia is now under siege.

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