Early festive joy for senior citizens

TRIANG (Jan 22, 2014): Residents of the Sang Riang Senior Citizens Home today received unexpected visitors from Kuala Lumpur who welcomed Chinese New Year in advance with them.
Berjaya Corporation Berhad (BCorp) chairman and chief executive officer Datuk Robin Tan and his brother U-Ming, who is 7-Eleven Malaysia executive director, treated residents to Kenny Rogers Roasters for lunch here today.
The senior citizens also received two ang pow packets each from Robin and U-Ming, along with donations of sugar, Milo, onions, eggs, detergents, and other household items from the Berjaya Cares Foundation.
"Chinese New Year is a time to get together with family, relatives and friends to share joy and laughter, and the senior citizens should not be forgotten," said Tan.
Sang Riang, which is entirely funded by donations, is currently housing 129 old folks who are underprivileged, abandoned, homeless, critically ill or mentally ill. It has housed 423 residents since its founding in 2003.
The home is one of its kind as it has an in-house dialysis centre that is also open to the public for a minimal cost, a critical care centre where immobile residents are housed, and an upcoming mental home.
BCorp founder Tan Sri Vincent Tan, who is Robin and U-Ming's father, last year donated a van fitted with a hydraulic lift for wheelchair users worth RM96,000 to ease the home's transportation woes.
This is one of the many programmes BCorp has under its Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives to bring meaningful changes to the various communities in need.