Home help service volunteers to receive RM300 each

Updated 5 years ago · Published on 11 Jul 2020 12:44PM · 2 Comments

Women, Family and Community Development Minister Rina Harun says home help services volunteers are due to receive a RM300 handout. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, July 11, 2020.

A TOTAL of 3,333 volunteers of the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry’s home help services programme will receive special assistance of RM300 each, minister Rina Mohd Harun said today.

The one-off aid forms part of the National Economic Recovery Plan (Penjana) announced by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on June 5.

“The handout will be distributed to all volunteers nationwide and we hope this initiative will attract more people to register as volunteers, especially young people.

“We want more people to be involved in this volunteer programme because they can be the eyes and ears for the ministry, especially the Social Welfare Department, to detect those in need of aid,” she told reporters after visiting Puan Mek Pah Said in Parit Panjang, Baling. Puan Mek Pah is provided assistance by volunteers under the Home Help Services programme.

The programme is a social support service provided by volunteers to the elderly and people with disabilities, especially to those living alone or with family members who are not capable or cannot afford to take care of them. – Bernama, July 11, 2020.

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  • What else can this minister do? A truly unfit to be a.minister!

    Posted 5 years ago by James Wong · Reply

  • Handouts when economy is suffering tis way tis woman can keep her SEAT SAFE FOR HER.

    Posted 5 years ago by Lucky Boy · Reply