President's Report on Past Year Activities

1. Welcome to Food for the Hungry International Malaysia!

The harvest field is very ripe, spreading from urban & rural communities to the devastating emergency relief situations filled with physical & spiritual hunger! FHIM brings you to experience looking in the eyes of forgotten humanity desperately looking & longing under the table hoping for a crumb of food, water, blankets, clothing, medicine, etc.

This gaping need is so great!

This is very real & life-threatening! All around us, our closest family, relatives, friends & colleagues are suffering from Physical and Spiritual Hunger! People can be fed but still feel lost & be wealthy but feel like a hollow man/woman, even the strongest can be shaken to the core by the storms of life, those violent changes that force our eyes open to stare at an uncertain future of these end times!

Who is good enough to help? Who can give hope in a hopeless world, meaning in suffering, and dignity in despair!

We are not a fool to receive what we don’t have or to treasure what we can only dream about, to cherish the dangling pearl from the silver lining!

Today, we also welcome you to our AGM & a time of enriching fellowship around a BBQ of organic meat without the toxicity & foul smell . It’s from our organic livestock farm! (We are an NGO/NPO, we don’t sell but the farms of the organic livestock mission around Sabah do when available. All are small village farms, but FHIM would like to escalate it to a social enterprise for the betterment of needy communities. So, if you feel led to respond to the call, by all means do so quickly!)

2. Activities for last year

2.1 It was mostly supplying food to 4 homes from a collaboration with a 5 Star Hotel. Everyday, we have photo report of the food delivery & the hungry ones enjoying hotel food once or twice weekly to cheer them up.

2.2 The agricultural projects are in the process of another collaboration with a tertiary institution called Natural Farming Mission School which Sebastian will be reporting.

2.3 Our collaboration with Jabez is still on going in Lingkabungan & Samparita. We have been supplying hygiene packs & students care sessions with library & tuition, a few older students have been to vocational training and now working.

2.4 During the flash flooding around Sabah, we raised funds to provide water & food supplies to a few areas, notably Penampang. We are exploring on training volunteers to help out in relief work. Please sign up when we find the trainers. We are greatly blessed to have the Sabah Disaster Preparedness Association President, Herman Cheah & a trained doctor in Emergency, Dr. Grace Yong in our Board to provide leadership in times of emergency.

2.5 FHIM was represented in a few NGO meetings to discuss possibilities for collaboration on social & charitable projects. Esther Lee is frequently interacting with other NGO & Government sources for us.

2.6 Yesterday, we met with a well-funded USA group, Planet Water Foundation that see good synergies between our organizations and would like to explore a potential partnership to assist schools or villages to have access to safe drinking water.

3. FHIM’s Focus Ahead

FHIM continues to major on food security that is linked to community development to sustain the solution to affordable, available & healthy food.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):

“Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.”

This definition includes four pillars:

1. Availability – sufficient food supply produced or imported

2. Access – physical and economic access to food

3. Utilisation – proper nutrition and food safety

4. Stability – enduring availability and access over time

Food insecurity refers to the lack or disruption of one or more of these pillars, leading to insufficient, unsafe, or unreliable access to food.

Simply stated we need food that people’s income can afford, safe to consume (Not contaminated with toxins) & always available.

As we look ahead to the coming years, a sobering reality demands our attention and action: the critical danger of growing food insecurity fueled by climate change, rising costs, and environmental degradation.

Across Malaysia—from the urban margins of Kuala Lumpur to the rural heartlands of Sabah and Sarawak—millions are increasingly vulnerable to food shocks with global supply chain disruptions that continue to raise the cost of staple foods.

In urban areas, the poor face rising living costs and unstable employment, leaving food access more & more uncertain. In rural communities, indigenous farmers and fishermen struggle with unpredictable weather, diminishing harvests, and shrinking income.

4. We cannot wait. We must act.

Food for the Hungry International Malaysia urges our members, partners, and friends to unite around three critical responses:

1. Strengthen Community-Based Food Systems

• Support urban farming, rooftop gardens, and micro-agriculture cooperatives both in skill training & application to start own farms, e.g. 4 Square Farming.

• Equip rural farmers with climate-resilient seeds, water-saving technologies, and training in regenerative agriculture.

2. Educate and Empower

• Launch food security literacy campaigns in schools and communities. However, if their basic education is poor, they can’t absorb the above! We have an open window to reach out financially & even to provide with daily sustainable breakfast to start school with CDP- Child Development Program monthly or quarterly donation to support a child.

• Train youth and women as food stewards, ensuring they lead in sustainable local food production. Many youths today need guidance to cope & excel in their development. This is another open door to serve. We need a structure with paid helpers & volunteers to efficiently run such aid programs.

3. Advocate and Partner

• Work with local governments, corporations, and NGOs to integrate food security into climate action plans.

• Influence policy to ensure land, water, and seed sovereignty for vulnerable communities.

This is more than a call to alleviate hunger. It is a call to build resilience, dignity, and hope into the very fabric of our society. If we fail to act now, we risk losing not only food access but the well-being of entire generations.

Let us rise to this challenge with urgency, faith, and unity. May our efforts in both word and deed declare that no one—urban or rural—should be left behind in the fight for daily bread.

Most urgently needed, become an FHIM intercessor & represent FHIM in the many intercession ministry around to uphold all who respond to the calling in FHIM today!

Be a member today & receive updates for prayer, help to raise funds for the many activities & multiply the vision from FHIM Sabah to the thousands across all the states of Malaysia today! For membership please contact our secretary: Sebastian Chong- +6014 – 955 6328.

Blessings in service and solidarity,

Rev. Koo Tuk Su (0167230490)

President 2024-2026

Food for the Hungry International Malaysia