Chinese firm helps church provide food for the homeless

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A CHURCH has thanked an overseas company for assisting its ministry provide food and clothes for homeless people.
Pastor Andrew Anis, of the Murray Barracks Seventh-day Adventist Church, thanked the China Railway Construction Engineering Group for helping the church with donations.
“This is the first time in the history of this church that an international company has helped us in community work,” Anis said.
The company agreed to help the church with its programme by providing food and funds on Sunday.
Company general manager Lien Cheng said they were happy to help in whatever way they could.
“As part of our organisation’s commitment to PNG in terms of our social responsibility and community initiative, it is our plan to contribute and support such humanitarian programme,” he said.
The programme was part of the children’s activity for the year – to feed and clothe the homeless living in the city.
Church officials took two months to organise the programme by inviting people around the city who could not fend for themselves to attend.
Ministry leader Alice Nasu saids the event was to encourage children and young adults to stop begging and stealing on the street and to join the church’s youth programme.
“We want to help them live a crime-free life. This is the only way we can meet them in a protected environment and communicate with them,” Nasu said.
More than 200 homeless people attended the programme.