Lee and Su Fan (front, fourth and sixth right, respectively) with others during the cake-cutting ceremony.
KAPIT:The annual ‘Parents Day’ celebration is a way for those in Kapit Kwang Tung Association to show their love and appreciation to the elderly members, including their own elderly folk.
Event organising chairperson Kong Su Fan, who is from the women’s section of Kapit Kwang Tung Association, said this year, the body honoured 10 elderly members, aged 65 and above, who received angpows during the celebration themed ‘Kwang Tung Night – Honouring The Parents’ at a local restaurant on Thursday.
“The main purpose of celebrating ‘Parents Day’ is to foster closer rapport among clan members in and around Kapit.
“We hold ‘Parents Day’ every year to honour our old folk’s contribution to their families and their invaluable roles in our upbringing. They have sacrificed so much to raise families.
“What we are today, we owe it all to them. It is, therefore, our responsibility to look after them as they approach old age and by saying ‘to look after them’, it is not just to provide food and shelter – our parents also need our love and affection. By showing love and respect to our parents, our children and grandchildren would learn from us and hopefully, do unto us what we are doing to and for our parents,” she said.
Su Fan later joined Kapit Kwang Tung Association chairwoman Lee Kung Chen, its women section’s chief Kong Siew Kim and its advisor Pemanca Yong Thu Fook, as well as local community leaders Penghulu Sia Shui Poh, Penghulu Wong Kie Ing and Kapitan Kong Chak He for the cake-cutting ceremony.