PSP Wish Comes True For Lad from Tandek

This is a moving story and it happens on the Christmas day. The thalassemia-afflicted boy is from the northern part of Sabah where government has been trying to help people there to overcome poverty.

Is this the digital divide that our politicians been talking all along?

It's heartening to know that the CWS (Children Wish Society) is the accomplisher in making the boy's dream comes true. Being an organization based in Kuala Lumpur, the effort shown by the organization is significant as this may have been the influence of the 1Malaysia slogan agressively championed by our PM Najib.

Since becoming the Prime Minister, Datuk Najib has been putting in great emphasis in making Sabah & Sarawak to be at par with the rest of the country in terms of welfare, economy and development.

The publicity created by PM Najib should have therefore brought the particular attention to the welfare aspect of the people and where government has not been able to cover. The appearance of NGO like CWS is very timely as we have a lot more 'Roheads' out there wanting to have their dreams fulfilled.

Since there are more established corporates in Semenanjung, they should too extend their social obligations to the people of Sabah to assist in easing the welfare gap.

The story also tells us that our economy in this part of the world is still far from the norm of the nation, and government has a lot more to catch up in helping the people like Rohead's family.

After all, are we not in the same country together?