Ling Wei Hock and Pau Kiu Chuo came to Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia in 1940s and 1950s respectively and settled down in a village called Sungai Bidut in Sibu. Both worked as rubber tappers and labourers during those days to raise up their 8 children.
Life has been tough for the family during then until the children grown up and started working. The core value of this family is centered in being hardworking and persistent to overcome all kind of challenges and obstacles and today it is proven that their values, perseverance and never surrender spirit had changed the family’s fate from poor to better condition with an honour to give back to the society by establishing the ‘Ling’s Family Tertiary Education Fund’ to help the deserving ‘Anak Sarawak’.
Life has been tough for the family during then until the children grown up and started working. The core value of this family is centered in being hardworking and persistent to overcome all kind of challenges and obstacles and today it is proven that their values, perseverance and never surrender spirit had changed the family’s fate from poor to better condition with an honour to give back to the society by establishing the ‘Ling’s Family Tertiary Education Fund’ to help the deserving ‘Anak Sarawak’.
This corner wooden shophouse is located in interior of Limbang division, Sarawak, Nanga Medamit where the Ling siblings begun their business journey as a grocery shop operator.
From thereon, slowly they moved to Limbang town and expanded to major towns in Sarawak, Sabah and have their businesses growing and expanded to other places.
It is always important to reflect on the past to remember where we begun, how humble we started and the setting up of this Fund is a form of showing gratitude to the society.
To give is always a blessing, this is the philosophy we uphold.
We firmly believe that one of the ways to alleviate or lessen poverty is through education and the fund provided by us is with the aim to assist the deserving ‘Anak Sarawak’ who possess determination and strive hard to attain tertiary education. The fund will help the recipients to bear some costs involved in getting ready for their first degree course, for example buying a laptop, air tickets, stationery or furniture. The one-off fund with no obligation to return shall be appreciated by the recipients who must repay kindness like this through excelling in their studies and later on contributing to the society and nation in the field they are in.
We firmly believe that one of the ways to alleviate or lessen poverty is through education and the fund provided by us is with the aim to assist the deserving ‘Anak Sarawak’ who possess determination and strive hard to attain tertiary education. The fund will help the recipients to bear some costs involved in getting ready for their first degree course, for example buying a laptop, air tickets, stationery or furniture. The one-off fund with no obligation to return shall be appreciated by the recipients who must repay kindness like this through excelling in their studies and later on contributing to the society and nation in the field they are in.