SIBU: Productive single mothers can be trained to become Welfare Department’s micro-entrepreneurs to improve their living standard.
Minister of Welfare, Community Well-Being, Women, Family and Childhood Development Datuk Fatimah Abdullah said they have actually been focusing on bringing up the group (single mothers) which is considered productive to become Welfare Department’s micro-entrepreneurs.
“If they are our department’s monthly welfare recipients we have a scheme to assist them by given them a grant from RM1,000 to a maximum of RM5,000.
“We will look at the potential ones and those interested in the business field so that we can train them to become micro entrepreneurs. And after the training, guidance and motivation they will be given a grant ranging from RM1,000 to a maximum of RM5,000.
“Our target is to build them up…so that their income will be more than what they received from the government as monthly assistance and they can finally get out of poverty,” she told reporters after meeting members of the Sarawak Central Region Single Mothers Association (Pitwits) here, yesterday.
Fatimah also revealed the role of the two big departments under her ministry.
“Members of single mothers association comprise the low income group and needy. So my ministry is focusing on this group specifically under the State Women and Family Department and Welfare Department,” she said, adding that the Welfare Department will go through applications of the single mothers to assist them in the task of being both a mother and father in the family.
“Assistance available from the Welfare Department is the Children’s Assistance Scheme. Those under the scheme will receive RM150 (for one child), RM250 (two children), RM350 (three children) and RM450 (four children),” she said.
