The Kelab Putera 1Malaysia (KP1M) is preparing to send food supplies and aid to displaced Rohingyas from Myanmar, who are currently forced to stay in refugee camps south of Bangladesh, sometime next week.
The club planned to deliver a load of 480 tonnes of food supplies and health kits to the refugees at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. This is expect to serve around 100,000 refugees for at least two months. "We want to bring more but the ship can only carry a certain load. When our team goes to Bangladesh, we will then buy more supplies in the country to be delivered to refugees via our volunteers," it's vice-president Mohd Farid Hassan told The Malay Mail when met at the club's office recently. The packaged supplies were expected to leave for Bangladesh on Friday on a Royal Malaysian Navy ship KD Sri Indera Sakti and scheduled to arrive in Chittagong on Sept 5.
Mohd Farid said 10 volunteers from KP1M, who will be aboard the naval carrier, would then join the rest of the KP1M entourage of 10 doctors and volunteers who flew in earlier. "They will make a 200km journey to deliver aid to refugee camps in Kutupalong and Nayapura. The group are expected to return on Sept 9. Mohd Farid said the club was also seeking permission from the Myanmar Embassy to allow them to cross the Bangladesh-Myanmar border to deliver aid to refugees who are still in the country.