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Travel company hears the deaf's plea for vehicle - Northern - New Straits Times
Penang Deaf Association's appeal for a secondhand vehicle has moved Discovery Overland Holidays Sdn Bhd to respond with a donation of an 11-seater passenger van.
Executive director Henry Wong travelled from Kuala Lumpur to present the van key to association president Chung Kim Cheong at the Municipal Council Youth Park information office, recently.
Costing RM56,000, the van arrived just in time to meet the association's need to ferry pre-school children to training and educational programmes.
The donation was made possible by the efforts of Lions Club of Georgetown Perdana, who sought the help of Discovery Overland Holidays.
"The association voiced its need to us and we, at first, wanted to use some of the proceeds from "Walk for Sight and Sound 2011" to buy the vehicle.
"But Lion Beatrice Lim managed to speak to Discovery Overland Holidays managing director Erik Ewe, who agreed to donate one of the company's used vans," said organising chairman Christina Choong.
"Walk for Sight and Sound " was held for the third year in July.
The association was included in this year's list of beneficiaries, along with St Nicholas Home for the Visually Impaired.
After the van, the association received its share of the proceeds from the event.
Chung received the RM15,000 cheque from Lions Club of Georgetown Perdana president Kelvin Lau.
Penang Deaf Association's appeal for a secondhand vehicle has moved Discovery Overland Holidays Sdn Bhd to respond with a donation of an 11-seater passenger van.
Executive director Henry Wong travelled from Kuala Lumpur to present the van key to association president Chung Kim Cheong at the Municipal Council Youth Park information office, recently.
Costing RM56,000, the van arrived just in time to meet the association's need to ferry pre-school children to training and educational programmes.
The donation was made possible by the efforts of Lions Club of Georgetown Perdana, who sought the help of Discovery Overland Holidays.
"The association voiced its need to us and we, at first, wanted to use some of the proceeds from "Walk for Sight and Sound 2011" to buy the vehicle.
"But Lion Beatrice Lim managed to speak to Discovery Overland Holidays managing director Erik Ewe, who agreed to donate one of the company's used vans," said organising chairman Christina Choong.
"Walk for Sight and Sound " was held for the third year in July.
The association was included in this year's list of beneficiaries, along with St Nicholas Home for the Visually Impaired.
After the van, the association received its share of the proceeds from the event.
Chung received the RM15,000 cheque from Lions Club of Georgetown Perdana president Kelvin Lau.