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Soul City 1 Humanising of Welfare Services The Department of Welfare Sarawak headed by its new Director, Puan Noriah Binti Haji Ahmad has a committed and highly esteemed team ensuring welfare services that covers a range of preventive, nurturing, supportive and remedial measures. Puan Noriah in her new approach explained on department’s strategy on introducing a vigorous Productive Welfare Programmes in helping clientele move from welfare to self-reliance for a better life. www.welfare.sarawak.gov.my 12 | BorneoTalkApr-Jun2012 (1) TYT Yang Di-Pertua (2 nd right) and Toh Puan Norkiah (1 st right) in Sentuhan Kasih Chinese New Year Programme, 14 th February 2012 • (2) Launching of Logo TASKA BERDAFTAR, 28 th September 2011 • (3) Visiting PERKATA 21 st February 2012 • (4)(7) KARISMA 1AZAM 17 th January 2012 • (5) CSR-Rakan Kongsi Kebajikan plague handing over ceremony during Flood Preparation Meeting chaired by Minister YB Datuk Hajah Fatimah Abdullah and Assistant Minister for Welfare, YB Robert Lawson Chuat, witnessed by Director Puan Noriah Hj Ahmad • (6) Visiting Food Storage Centre for the flood victim in Ng Baoh • (8) Wang Ehsan distribution by Minister YB Datuk Hajah Fatimah Abdullah 23 rd February 2012 2 3 4 The state Welfare Department will thus embark on an ambitious programme to “humanize” its services by improvising existing ones and implementing new initiatives to better serve its clientele groups as well as to reach out to those who were inadvertently left out from the safety net. Under the Government Transformation Programme, the
department is tasked with the responsibility of making its services more accessible and friendly to its clientele groups which consists of senior citizens, single parents, delinquent juveniles, disadvantaged children, persons with disabilities, victims of natural disasters and domestic violence, social destitute, child-care providers and voluntary welfare organizations. This has been the motivation behind the formation of the new Ministry of Welfare, Women and Family Development headed by Yang Berhormat Datuk Hajah Fatimah Abdullah who has always been a staunch advocate of a holistic transformation of the welfare system that promotes a more accessible and humane approaches to human needs and social problems. The department is also aware that welfare work is a joint responsibility of all civic-minded citizens. Hence it will forge greater partnerships with NGOS and the corporate sectors in the delivery of its services. For instance, recently a Chinese New Year event was held together with corporate entities such as PETRONAS, Mega Hotel Miri and DD Plantation Soul City the department will take stringent measures to ensure that all child-care centres, TASKA (Taman Asuhan Kanak- Kanak) are legally registered under the Child-care Centre Act, 1984 in order to avoid any further untoward incidents. Hence parents are advised to send their child to registered Taska only. Meanwhile, the process time for registration of a TASKA has Among the new programmes that have been scheduled for implementation this year include: (a) setting up of 45 satellite offices, in strategic locations in the suburban and rural areas; (b) online registration of the disabled; (c) enhancement of the registration of the child-care centres. (d) forging of multi-sectoral collaboration with voluntary welfare organizations and corporate sectors. The setting up of satellite offices aims at extending the welfare services to the less fortunate and the vulnerable groups at the grassroot level so that no eligible persons may be denied of government assistance. It also aims at alleviating the burden of hardships faced by the target groups through the disbursements of various social assistance and small-business launching grants. 8 Miri under the auspices of His Highness the Governor of Sarawak and Toh Puan. Representatives of the corporate sectors contributed angpows to the welfare recipients and residents of welfare institutions. Under the Persons with Disabilities Act (2008), all disabled persons are required to register with the welfare department. This is necessary for the government to plan services and allocate adequate funds for the needs of these groups. Hence an online registration system has been developed to speed up the process. The department is cognizant of recent incidences of mishandling of children in some child-care centres operated by individuals and business entities. Hence been shortened to three and half months as compared to 12 months previously. With this, the operators would have no valid excuses for not registering their centres. In order for members of the public to provide feedback or reports on certain social issues of welfare concern, they may channel their querries through our national 24/7 careline @ 15999 or talikhidmat @ 555999. For more information, please contact Department of Welfare Sarawak, Wisma Kebajikan, Jalan Siol Kanan, 93050 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. T: +6082 444121, 448445 F: +6082 455710, 448946 E: welfare@sarawak.gov.my Apr-Jun2012BorneoTalk | 13
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