KOTA SAMARAHAN: The allocation of RM18,000 grant under the Economic Empowerment Programme (EEP) to Community-based Rehabilitation Centre (PDK) benefited 17 PDK throughout the state.
The government grant is meant to encourage the disabled to get involved in entrepreneurship.
Minister of Welfare, Women and Community Wellbeing, Datuk Fatimah Abdullah said the grant was used to buy tools and materials for the disabled to generate their own income from their creative products.
“It is also used as training fees for skills training such as sewing, planting and others.
“In 2016, PDK Satok won first place for producing Collagen Flower Arrangement for a beauty product using the grant, during the 70th Anniversary of National Welfare Department (JKKM) in Putrajaya,” Fatimah revealed when she officiated at a mushroom house in PDK Samarahan here, yesterday.
Meanwhile, Fatimah also said that by having the new mushroom house project, it would also become one of the income sources for the PDK.
“The mushroom-planting project is a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of PETRONAS, UNIMAS (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak) and ILP (Industrial Training Institute) Kota Samarahan,” she disclosed.
Also present at the event were Secretary of PDK Samarahan, Liana Laha, UNIMAS’ Dean of the Faculty Science and Technology Sources, Professor Dr Othman Bojo and Director of Sarawak Welfare Department, Abang Shamsuddin Abang Seruji.
