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How Rising Food Costs Are Affecting Soup Kitchens

Datuk Munirah Abdul Hamid, Founder, PERTIWI Soup Kitchen

12-Jul-22 14:00

How Rising Food Costs Are Affecting Soup Kitchens

Rising cost of living - and food - is causing many to feel the pinch, especially non-governmental organisations which have been relying on public funding to sustain their operations to help those in need. We speak to Datuk Munirah Abdul Hamid, the founder of PERTIWI Soup Kitchen, to find out how the soup kitchen and the people they feed are coping.

Image credit: Facebook / PERTIWI Soup Kitchen

Produced by: Lim Sue Ann

Presented by: Lim Sue Ann


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Categories:  Law/Activism,  food

Tags:  soup kitchen,  food security,  b40,  homeless,  cost of living, 


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