{"id":161828,"date":"2022-01-20T15:08:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T15:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=161828"},"modified":"2022-01-20T15:08:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T15:08:45","slug":"kind-malaysian-man-brings-joy-to-children-affected-by-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=161828","title":{"rendered":"Kind Malaysian man brings joy to children affected by floods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Nik Nayly<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, 20 January 2022: Amir Effendi Abd Rahim has brought joy to many kids affected by the recent floods by gifting them with brand new toys, <em>Malay Mail<\/em> reported.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the toy recipients was the little boy who had gone viral after losing his toy robot due to the floods.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amir Effendi from Kota Damansara said that many other children were deeply affected after their toys were destroyed by flood waters and they did not have anything to play with.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153I started the crowdfunding initiative before the floods and on 20 December last year, I went to the flood-hit areas such as Taman Sri Muda and Hulu Langat to distribute the toys.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153Many young ones were also surprised to receive brand-new toys because most of the time, it was food and other basic necessities being channelled to the families.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153And its a nice thing to see children being happy lining up for their toys because it makes them happy.\u009d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the toys were distributed to children irrespective of race and religion.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the toys given to the children are hot wheels, nerf guns, action figures, dolls and kitchen playsets for the girls.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 44-year-old kind-hearted man initially started his own crowdfunding campaign in 2019 known as \u0153Toys For A Cause\u009d to give toys to unfortunate children and children diagnosed with cancer.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But with the COVID-19 pandemic, his usual plans of distributing toys on a monthly basis came to a halt and only resumed last year.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153Im trying to head to Johor and other states apart from the Klang Valley to distribute toys to the children.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153I am also getting more information from friends in other villages and whoever can help transport the toys from one place to another.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153Im glad my crowdfunding initiative has helped in the recent flood situation \u2022 the happiness that you see on a childs face once getting a toy is priceless,\u009d he said. ***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: Malay Mail<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nik Nayly KUALA LUMPUR, 20 January 2022: Amir Effendi Abd Rahim has brought joy to many kids affected by the recent floods by gifting&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2752,"featured_media":161829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,19,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[12,156,2752],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AmirEffendiToys_200122.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2752"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161849,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161828\/revisions\/161849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}