By Elena Koshy | Malaysia | NST |
IT hasn’t rained in Setia Alam, but with the way our weather behaves these days, you never quite know when the skies might split open without warning. And if they do — if the floodgates open and the world briefly goes to hell — I can think of far worse fates than being rescued by a team of burly, no-nonsense Sikhs who have made wading into chaos part of their routine.
Outside the United Sikhs Malaysia office, broad-shouldered, turbaned Mandeep Singh — the organisation’s vice-president — is already waiting, grinning as if floods, earthquakes or logistical nightmares are all in a day’s work. And for this crew, they usually are.
United Sikhs works on a straightforward principle: when a crisis happens, you step in and do what needs to be done. No fanfare, no overstatement — just clear, steady action that often makes the difference long before most people grasp the scale of what’s unfolding.
Mandeep leads me into the first-floor office, where a wall of photographs stops me mid-step — a visual record of the organisation’s work dating back to 2004, even though it was only formally registered in 2015.
A quick look around tells me the space serves more than one purpose. Hospital beds, wheelchairs, commodes and portable oxygen concentrators line the room — the essentials needed to respond at a moment’s notice. A second warehouse in Rawang stores everything else.
It isn’t lavish, but it is purposeful; resources are channelled to where they matter most: the communities they serve.
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