Persekutuan Kebajikan Islam Telok Kurau May 2026
Years passed. The wooden box became a proper fund. The notebook grew into a community database. PEKITK built a small clinic that opened every Thursday night, offering free check-ups. They started a tabung pendidikan that sent seven children to university. When the great flood of 1989 came, it was PEKITK that transformed the mosque hall into a shelter, cooking bubur lambuk around the clock.
And the promise lived on. Even when Telok Kurau changed—when the mangroves made way for houses, when grandchildren of the founders moved to the city—PEKITK remained. They adapted, started a food delivery service for the housebound elderly, taught digital literacy classes in the mosque’s basement. persekutuan kebajikan islam telok kurau
But the story they tell most fondly is of the old fisherman, Pak Salleh, who had no family. One Deepavali—because Telok Kurau was always a tapestry of cultures—the Persekutuan showed up at his hut not with aid, but with a feast: ketupat, rendang, and a new sarong. Pak Salleh wept. “I thought I was forgotten,” he said. Mak Jah patted his hand. “In this village, no one is forgotten. That’s our promise.” Years passed
Their first project was humble: a weekly soup kitchen, run from Mak Jah’s stall after the morning rush. Word spread—not through posters, but by whispers along the teh tarik stalls and the sarong-lined clotheslines. Soon, young volunteers appeared: a university student who could keep accounts, a mechanic who fixed wheelchairs, a girl who drew cheerful murals on the soup kitchen’s wall. PEKITK built a small clinic that opened every
One rainy Tuesday, they gathered under the mosque’s porch. Pak Hamid placed a wooden box on the floor. “This will be our first treasury,” he said. Mak Jah added her week’s savings wrapped in banana leaf. Imam Razi recited a prayer, then opened a worn notebook: “List of those who need us, but we don’t know yet.”