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Hunger Knows no Barriers: One year with the homeless of KL with Kechara Soup Kitchen
by Muhammad Yusuf Odierno
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My father and I started going to the Kechara Soup Kitchen (KSK) in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia in July 2013. It started as simply a way to pad my college transfer applications to the US, based on advice from a university counselor to do volunteer work. We looked into all sorts of volunteer activities before settling on this. Little did we know we would fall in love with the work of KSK. This past year has truly changed our lives. Before joining the soup kitchen, we would spend our Saturday nights at home watching a movie or browsing the web and that was our reality. This was one year ago. Now, we spend our Saturday nights volunteering with Kechara Soup Kitchen to help the homeless, giving food, providing clothes and helping them to get work and medical care. Many of the homeless on our regular route have become friends who we chat with regularly and worry about when they go missing. A nutritious meal to the homeless could be their first decent meal in days. However, to KSK and the other soup kitchens, food is more than just food. Food is a tool of communication between the giver and the recipient to gain trust from people who have had their trust broken time and time again. Food is a means of starting a conversation and a sign that we care. Food is just the first step in the soup kitchen’s goal in getting the homeless off the street. It is a long process but the journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step!
Volunteering at KSK has also been an excellent form of bonding between my father and I from the sometimes very intense emotional situations. This has also changed my life as I have become a better person than before we started. Because of our exposure to the harsh reality of the lives of the homeless, I have come to appreciate the simple pleasures of life. Even simple necessities which may be trivial to us, like a bed to sleep on and food to eat, are not available to the homeless. If we want a drink we can simply go to the kitchen and take it. When we sleep, we do not have to worry about someone stealing our belongings or rats and cockroaches bothering us. I have also learned leadership skills since becoming an assistant team leader for Kechara Soup Kitchen, alongside my father, which I can use in the future.
We hope that through this book we can share some of the situations and emotions we have witnessed and felt and that when we say homeless we do not mean simply one class of people, but rather to those from a whole range of situations and backgrounds. We have seen homeless who have had jobs but due to accidents and a lack of insurance end up wiping out their savings and are forced to the streets. We have seen the effect of drug addictions, convincing young men to spend money on drugs rather than housing. We have seen the sadness and despair of people who have been through drug rehabilitation eleven times but still get sucked back in again and again. We have felt the pain of the ex-convicts, leaving prison with the passion to start a new life only to not be able to obtain work due to their background. Words cannot properly express some emotions, such as seeing small children sleeping on the roadside, but please look beyond our shortcomings and learn about their lives.
We also hope this book gives some insight as to how the homeless can be helped, as we can do a lot more than just feed the homeless, we can give them hope and help them off the street. We have changed the names of the homeless we have mentioned here to protect them as well as their families. There are two sides to every story, and we have only heard the side of the homeless we have talked to and become friends with. Their families may have a very different picture of the same event. This is a reality which we work with, and the challenge of being on the street each week.
Details:
Price: $4.99
Publisher: Kechara Media & Publications Sdn. Bhd (March 18, 2017)
Language: English
ASIN: B06XQXLP54
File size: 10476 KB
Hunger Knows no Barriers: One year with the homeless of KL with Kechara Soup Kitchen Muhammad Yusuf Odierno
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