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Soup Kitchen Case Study

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INTRODUCTION
Recently, an issue has been widely featured in local newspapers on issues of soup kitchens run by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and this has been one of the hottest issues in Malaysia. In Kuala Lumpur, soup kitchens are not allowed to operate in a 2km radius of the area of Lot 10 which covers most of the city centre and will be enforced immediately, said Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan TengkuMansor. He said the decision was made after his meeting with relevant agencies in Kuala Lumpur City Hall. According to Wikipedia (2014), "soup kitchen is a place where food is offered to the homeless and the hungry for free". According to Foong (2010), "A fact sheet homeless by the Department of Welfare estimates …show more content…

Soup kitchens were established and introduced by Carl D 'Cunha in 1999 in Malaysia soup kitchen serve rice and not soup because of various eating habits and different cultures. Only vegetarian lunch boxes, halal lunch boxes, and pork-free or beef lunch boxes is served to respect different religions and ethnic backgrounds of those in need. Usually most of soup kitchen in Malaysia start to operate to feed the poor at night only on Monday to Friday because most of the volunteers that distribute food are working during the day. Is the decision made by the Kuala Lumpur Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan TengkuMansor to ban soup kitchen operations within 2 km radius from Lot 10, Kuala Lumpur justified? The decision from Kuala Lumpur Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan TengkuMansor is not justified is because the homeless and the poor people will not have a place that they can get free food, the soup kitchens will change the poor and homeless people back to normal life, and ban the soup kitchen operations in Lot 10, Kuala Lumpur …show more content…

1. How do homeless people manage to survive?
i. They do eating from garbage cans or digging in dumpsters behind fast-food restaurant.
2. According to Glenn (2013), “Homeless man ticketed for looking for a meal in trash”.
i. By banning the soup kitchen, the homeless and poor people will find another way to survive for live by looking for food from the trash. ii. The homeless people will still be there and they will get some food from the trash although they can be poisoned if eating from the trash.
3. Dubanchet (2014), a Frenchman eats from trash cans across Europe to protest food waste.
i. Eating from garbage without buying any food on a 3,000km route across Europe, that’s what a young Frenchman decided to do in order to raise awareness about how much food is wasted. ii. So, the homeless people also take an advantages in finding the garbage cans nearer fast-food restaurant to get the food.
4. According to Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor want to do, the only reasons is he want to push out the homeless people out of the

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