{"id":9430,"date":"2014-07-08T17:41:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T09:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=9430"},"modified":"2014-07-08T17:45:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T09:45:28","slug":"penang-chief-minister-donates-rm20000-to-the-lighthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/penang-chief-minister-donates-rm20000-to-the-lighthouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Penang Chief Minister donates RM20,000 to NGO The Lighthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/lge-nangis-650x400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9432\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/lge-nangis-650x400.jpg\" alt=\"lge-nangis-650x400\" width=\"385\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a>Penang Chief Minister and DAP Secretary General Lim Guan Eng donated RM 20,000 to soup kitchen The Lighthouse today, in Georgetown Penang.<\/p>\n<p>He commended the Lighthouse and the NGO behind the soup kitchen, Penang Office for Human Development (POHD) for their efforts to feed the homeless and the poor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To feed the poor is an honourable deed. I am touched by the soup kitchens here and elsewhere organised by either Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim or Catholic NGOs that help feed the unfortunate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The less fortunate have the right to receive food from others, especially from organizations such as this,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lim also expressed that he did not understand how the federal government decided to discriminate and punish NGO&#8217;s like these for their noble work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They must be praised and defended, not punished or fined,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Minister was seen teary-eyed as he laid plates of food for the poor\u00a0there, while\u00a0watching as they ate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is important that we the people give the less fortunate their dignity as human beings,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Lighthouse is located at Jalan Penang, and receives a multiracial, multi-religious crowd as its guests. No beef or pork is served at the soup kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>Other than feeding the poor, The Lighthouse operates a learning centre for those who need to enhance their skills and contribute to society.<\/p>\n<p>Lim Guan Eng also asserted that Penang will not concur\u00a0with the federal governments Ops Kasih crackdown on soup kitchens and attempts to remove and fine them.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the government not to persecute against the poor. Being poor is not a crime, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not something I will allow in Penang,&#8221; he added. -The Rocket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penang Chief Minister and DAP Secretary General Lim Guan Eng donated RM 20,000 to soup kitchen The Lighthouse today, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9438,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9430\/revisions\/9438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}