Our Founder
OF GRACE HOME KLANG
Dr. Henry K. Pillai
In the 1980s, Henry K. Pillai was living in the village of Pandamaran in Port Klang. One day, Henry came across a man sleeping on the road at the five-foot way. The man grabbed Henry’s leg and told Henry that he was going to die and he had no family to bury him. He asked Henry if he would promise to bury him when he died.
Henry took him in, gave him a bath, looked after him and fed him. Later, Henry took the man to the general hospital for an eye cataract and leg operation. The man eventually recovered to full health. The man lived for more than six months with Henry.
Other people began showing up to seek help. Dr. Henry came across several elderly people living in the Chinese cemetery amongst them were women in their 70s to 80s from China. They were brought to Malaysia when they were little children to work as servants and later as nannies. In their old age, they no longer had anyone else to turn to, no place to live and were living at cemeteries with no means of supporting themselves.
Dr. Henry decided to rent a house in Port Klang and these women were taken in and cared for. Here began the story of Grace Home. A volunteer, Mrs Ng Charm helped care for these residents and she eventually became the first matron of the home.