KUCHING: Hope Place, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), recently reached out to assist a baby girl who had a traumatic brain injury after she fell out from her baby cot.
According to its founder Kelvin Wan, Vallencia Ellicsa fell from her baby cot when she was three months old and now needs to be monitored carefully as she currently relies on tube-feeding.
“We were informed about her case by a Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) social worker,” he said in a statement today.
Vallencia’s father is a general worker while her mother is a full time housewife. Vallencia also has two older siblings. The family lives a simple life in a Bau village.
Wan and his team visited the family in Bau recently to hand over some food items, baby milk powder and diapers.
Besides that, the team also installed a solar light for the family as their house has no water and electricity supplies.
Hope Place currently supports more than 190 families by contributing essential food items like rice, cooking oil, sugar, salt, biscuits and noodles.
It carries out aid deliveries once every three months because of the many families on its list of recipients comprising individuals with disabilities, single mothers with young dependents, abandoned senior citizens as well as those who earn a monthly income below RM500.
For more information, Hope Place can be reached at its hotline at 013-5672775 or office number at 082-505987 between 8.30am to noon, and 2pm to 5pm (Monday to Friday) and 9am to noon on Saturdays.
