Weekend Outing With Julie's Church Mates

  

Followed Julie with her outing with her church mates.

We went to HIV home and visited the Myanmar Rohingya Refugee Home as well.

 

HIV patients suffer from weak immune system.

Their T4 cell counts are very low.

Hence, simple illness such as cold can be life-threatening to them.

 

Rohingyans are Muslim and they seek refuge in other countries

when there were clashes between Buddhist and Muslim in Myanmar.

However, the agents they paid locked them up in small containers before smuggling them in.

 

They will seek ransom from their family members.

Those who are lucky to have enough money will be released.

Else, they will be kept inside the containers in squatting position.

 

Imagine yourself squatting in the same position for 2-3 months.

Only one meal per day and no water.

The spaces are so limited for them that you can imagine how do they pass motion etc.

Probably not much motion to pass since their food intake is so limited.

 

By the time they were rescued, most would have too weak a muscle to even carry stuff.

Unlucky ones will have bone deformation as well.

The refugees will be placed at the refugee home until they recover, usually 1-3 months time.

UNHCR is providing subsidy for every refugee that comes in.

 

Hence, the home is accountable to ensure their well-being.

Once they are able to regain their normal muscular function, they will search for job.

They will still need to report to UNHCR I think.

 

Not easy to earn a living in this world ya.

Hence, we must always have the gratitude that we are living in this part of the world.

Shielded from major disasters, living in harmony with each other etc.

 

Then we had lunch at this restaurant, at Bukit Beruntung.

Very good food I must say and the price is reasonable.