‘I offered him a place to stay and he started to cry’
When Tony Lian, the founder of an NGO that helps the poor, came across a video of a homeless man being kicked and humiliated outside a bank, he felt sick to his stomach.
Lian was horrified at the degrading and inhumane treatment of the homeless man.
“You cannot treat another human being that way. Where is the compassion?” Lian, who runs Food4U, an NGO that feeds the homeless and poor every week, told FMT.
“He needs to be treated with dignity.”
The pensioner in his 70s, fondly known as “Uncle Tony”, knew he had to do something.
Lian, who also runs two small shelters for the homeless, set out on foot to look for the man and walked along the shops at Taman Maluri in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur. He checked every corner until he reached another bank, some 600m from the first bank where the man had been kicked and hosed with water.
It was there that…
