#AyamWithYou Food Pantry: Take What You Need, Leave What You Can

Communities in Need in the Klang Valley Turn to #AyamWithYou Community Pantries by Anjung Singgah and Pertubuhan Kebajikan Kasih Nurul Hasanah. While times are tough due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Malaysians are pulling together to support communities with kindness and trust, giving old methods such as communal food pantries an innovative spin.

#AyamWithYou Food Pantry: Take What You Need, Leave What You Can 

The #AyamWithYou Food Pantry initiative, by Ayam Brand™ and 13 charity homes nationwide is helping charities, empowering them to help surrounding communities that are in need. For example in the Anjung Singgah homeless shelter in Jalan Lekiu is leading the way for surrounding communities by managing the #AyamWithYou pantry in this area.

#AyamWithYou Community Pantries by Anjung Singgah

The weatherproof pantry is set up outside the shelter so that social distancing is observed. It is open to the public round-the-clock. Staff and residents update the community about the food pantry through community groups on social media and messaging apps, and they top up the Ayam Brand™ products daily.

Please help to leave what you can in the food pantry and zip it back for the next person.  Items available on the food pantries are mainly food, but you could also help to add on the beverage, groceries as well as other necessities.  Together with the charity organization in every state, Ayam Brand will be replenishing the food pantry daily with its famous canned food.  

#AyamWithYou Food Pantry: Take What You Need, Leave What You Can 

Here are the list of locations:  

Terengganu: Rumah Kebajikan Anak-Anak Yatim Al-Hijrah 

Pahang: Baitul Husna Bukit Sekilau 

Kelantan: Pusat Jagaan Pertubuhan Anak Yatim dan Asnaf Kelantan 

Kedah: Pusat Jagaan Insan Kesayanganku 

Penang: Persatuan Kebajikan Anak-Anak Islam 

Perlis: Pertubuhan Kebajikan dan Amal Rumah Terug Perlis 

Johor: Pertubuhan Kebajikan Shafar Johor Bahru 

Negeri Sembilan: Persatuan Kebajikan Anak-Anak Istimewa Harapan Negeri Sembilan 

Sabah: Rumah Anak Kesayangan 

Sarawak: Rumah Amal Nur Murni 

Selangor: Pusat Jagaan Rumah Kasih Nurul Hasanah 

Kuala Lumpur: Anjung Singgah 

Perak: Pertubuhan Baitul Aini Ipoh

Response to the initiative has been overwhelming with the daily allocation of Ayam Brand™ products such as tuna, baked beans, processed peas, canned pineapples and coconut milk snapped up quickly, and other essentials being added, with strong support from the community.

#AyamWithYou Food Pantry to support communities with kindness and trust

“Surprises have turned up at the food pantry including fresh vegetables, dates, baby formula, diapers and Raya cookies! We can feel the #KitaJagaKita closeness. The #AyamWithYou food pantry project has made this Raya very special by building stronger bonds of kindness, trust, and support in our community, allowing us to contribute actively well-being,” said Anjung Singgah Yayasan Kebajikan Negara, operations officer, Encik Amir Rudin Bin Abdul Rahman. 

Through its long-running Corporate Social Responsibility programmes Ayam Brand™ has contributed more than 2 million healthy meals for charity, providing nutritious food to more than 21,800 people from 524 charity organizations and NGOs over the past 12 years.

This year the brand has supported Covid-19 front liners at Hospital Sungai Buloh, 13 charity homes, the #AyamWithYou food pantry initiative, and the Anjung Singgah Kuala Lumpur Homeless Transit centre, with plans to support more organizations and communities.

“Covid-19 drastically changed our plans for the 13th annual Ayam Brand™ Community Care Campaign, but we see the positive impact of the #AyamWithYou Food Pantry initiative. It changes the narrative for our charity home partners, from being recipients to being contributors and donors in their respective communities. The community here has embraced the food pantry concept of ‘take what you need, leave what you can’ creating a virtuous cycle that is sustaining the initiative” said Ayam Brand Malaysia’s Marketing Manager, Nathan Deverre.

Ayam Brand™ staff have helped spread the word on the food pantry so that more can benefit or contribute, and started the ball rolling by being among the first to contribute non-food items to the pantry.

“Starting with our families and friends we sent out a list of necessities for the pantry. Those who could drop-off essential items at the pantry. The community are so willing and eager to help. They have shared the location of the pantry with those in need as well. All of us can help within our means,” said an Ayam Brand™ team member who lives in the area.

The #AyamWithYou food pantry is located Anjung Singgah, Lot 28-32 Jalan Hang Lekiu, 50100 Kuala Lumpur and at Pertubuhan Kebajikan Kasih Nurul Hasanah No 1, Jalan Pimping Kanan, Ukay Heights 68000 Ampang Selangor. Be part of the movement to receive or to give essentials.

For more information about the #AyamWithYou Food Pantry initiative, visit  Ayam Brand 

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