Hope Place provides wheelchairs to disabled elderly individuals
KUCHING: Hope Place is known for supporting families around Kuching with food assistance. The non-governmental organisation (NGO) also extends its services to the sick or disabled individuals with special needs items such as wheelchairs, commode chairs, walking frames and disposable diapers. Recently, Hope Place provided wheelchairs to two elderly individuals with disabilities who could not […]
Senior citizens, poor and disabled receive food aid
BINTANGOR: A group of 50 senior citizens, poor and persons with disabilities (OKU) received contributions in the form of food essentials under the Sarawak Public Communications Unit (Ukas) ziarah programme, which is currently touring Meradong constituency to help the needy there. Meradong assemblyman Datuk Ding Kuong Hiing officiated at the distribution of the contributions at […]
Fingerless S. Korean becomes world’s 1st disabled person to climb all 14 Himalayan peaks
SEOUL: A fingerless South Korean mountaineer has climbed all of the world’s 14 highest mountains in the Himalayas, a local alpine club said Monday, becoming the world’s first person with a disability to accomplish such a feat, Yonhap news agency reported. Kim Hong-bin reached the summit of the 8,047-metre-high Broad Peak, located in Pakistan’s Karakoram […]
Call us ‘people with disabilities
PwDs want term ‘cacat’ replaced ‘OKU’ KUALA LUMPUR: The community of people with disabilities (PwDs) is seeking the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry to replace the work “cacat” (disabled) in its term “Elaun Pekerja Cacat or EPC” (Allowance for Disabled Workers) with “OKU”, for “Orang Kurang Upaya” or PwDs. Senator Datuk Ras Adiba Radzi, […]
Ministry to review courses for disabled
KUCHING: The Ministry of Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development will review the vocational skills courses offered to people with disabilities in the state. Its minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah said the Samarahan Rehabilitation Centre in Kota Samarahan which provided training to such people was being upgraded. “Managed by the state Social Welfare […]
Provide job opportunities for disabled, help them out of poverty
KUALA LUMPUR: As the country is battling the Covid-19 pandemic, the government and corporate sector have been urged to provide employment opportunities for persons with disabilities (PwDs), especially those from the B40. Senator Datuk Ras Adiba Radzi said if all parties provide job opportunities for the disabled to serve in their respective sectors, it could […]
Thumbs-up to training centre for disabled
KUCHING: The establishment of a training centre in the state for the disabled to further their education after completing the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) received positive feedback from members of the public. Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah said that Sarawak did not have a vocational school for […]
Six nabbed over death of disabled girl
KUALA LUMPUR: The father and grandaunt of a disabled five-year-old girl were among six individuals arrested to facilitate investigation into the girl’s tragic death at a house in Kampung Sungai Cincin, Gombak, here recently. The brutal act against the girl who was diagnosed with Hydrocephalus disease, an excess brain fluid from birth, was uncovered after […]
Disabled delivery rider on ‘frontline’ of virus war
GOMBAK: Diminutive Malaysian delivery rider Muhammad Sidek Osman cuts a striking figure weaving through traffic on a modified four-wheeled motorbike on his way to drop off food. Birth complications left him stooped and shorter than average at just 108 centimetres, making even simple tasks such as climbing stairs a challenge. “Being like this, it’s a […]
Diapers, special milk for disabled woman
KUCHING: A disabled woman recently received aid in the form of diapers and a special milk powder from Hope Place, a local non-governmental organisation. Bong Kian Loah, 24, lives with her parents who are farmers in Siburan and has a brother who is currently looking for a job. She was diagnosed with a type of […]
