Many join hands to help save old folks from floods misery


Caring hearts: Volunteers from a charity clinic attending to a senior citizen at the temporary home at SMJK Heng Ee in George Town. Inset: A teacher, parent and student of SJK (C) Han Chiang cleaning the school after the floods in Penang.

GEORGE TOWN: Peter Tan will always be grateful to those who came to his old folks home to help the 12 senior citizens trapped there during the flash floods.

“We were caught offguard because the water level rose very fast. It soaked their beds and there was nothing the four staff on duty could do.

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