CNI News
3 Feb 2024
More and more Myanmar nationals in Malaysia have asked philanthropic associations for help than last year, Malaysia-based philanthropic associations told CNI News.
Requests from Myanmar nationals for help contained to help them with places to stay, with jobs, with foods and with health issues, Ko Thet, chairman of the Lovely Hearts Philanthropic Youths Blood Donors Organization, told CNI News.
" There have been requests for help almost every day since operaci checks and arrests. Some have no places to stay. Some want to go to clinics, but it's difficult to go there if you don't have any documents. Some don't have jobs for the time being. Some are cheated by brokers. Those cheated were abandoned in oil palm plantations. Some have to be staying under bridges. There are also people who are suffering in far away places such as Penang, Johor and Malacca. We can't go to so distant places to help them." he said.
Philanthropic associations have to go and guarantee for those who want to see physicians at the hospitals and clinics and to give places to those who have no places to stay at the offices of the associations and shops of acquaint ants or friends reportedly.
Moreover, if those arrested were sent to Malaysian immigration department, they would be sentenced to three month imprisonment reportedly.
More requests for help from Myanmar nationals might be because there have been an increase in the number of foreign workers than 2022, Ko Naing Lin, general advisor of the Dana Kusala Funeral Service Association, told CNI News.
" Because the population has increased, the arrests have increased as well. And then, it's also difficult to find jobs. Those who ask for help have increased. Some ask us to help find the jobs. Some have no permits and their employers can't accept them anymore. We haven't helped those arrested. Sometimes, when we help those who are inspected by the police as interpreters." he said.
Some of the undocumented Myanmar people were arrested while they were staying in the shops and offices opened by Myanmar citizens.
So, some philanthropic associations have suspended helping Myanmar people who have found it difficult to stay while the arrests are rampant and the associations will help them again only when the arrests have been reduced.
However, those who were finding it difficult might ask for help anytime, said philanthropic associations.
