MUKAH: A total of 194 participants attended the 2018 Sarawak 1AZAM Mind Transformation Programme held here from April 12 to 14, recently. Minister of Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development, Dato Sri Hajah Fatimah Abdullah was given the honour to officiate at the programme last Friday afternoon.
Sixteen facilitators conducted the three-day event held at Kingwood Resort Mukah which is located about 15 kilometres from Mukah town centre. In her speech at the function, Fatimah, revealed that the programme did not only stress on the change of mind but also an education to improve the existing skills of the participants especially in those related to income generating ones.
“This programme also exposes the marketing technique, and the important entrepreneurship characters of the participants that could be unearthed and nurtured to ensure positive fruition especially for the endeavour undertaken,” she said.
The main objective of the programme, she added, was to change the character and mind of the targeted group so that they would become positive, progressive and confident in developing an excellent and prosperous life.
On the 1AZAM (ends the poverty era), she disclosed that a total of 42,542 household heads throughout the state received the assistance since it was introduced in 2011.
1AZAM was not only the provision of the assistance but above all to assist the needy persons or recipients to improve their household income and eventually freed from the confinement of poverty. Fatimah who is Dalat State Assemblywoman, was however sad that there were still some who could not differentiate between e- Kasih and 1AZAM. “e-Kasih is to register the name of the poor, while,1AZAM to assist in improving the income of the hardcore poor in our midst,” she reiterated.
Fatimah also disclosed that the programme would be held throughout the state which is scheduled to involve a total of 3,481 household heads.
The event also saw the presentation of assistance under the PETRONAS CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Programme and presented by PETRONAS Sarawak Region General Manager, Ekni Reduan.
Also present at the function were the ministry’s Permanent Secretary Dr Sadiah Abdul Samat; Noor Nizam Ramli, who represented State Federal Development Officer; Civil Service Delivery Unit Director, Fabian Bigar and Mukah Resident, Awang Johari Awang Mustapha.
