PUTRAJAYA – The Women, Family and Community Development Ministry (KPWKM) today launched its 2021-2025 Strategic Plan that contains eight main thrusts, including plans to empower women and strengthen the family institution.
Its minister, Datuk Seri Rina Mohd Harun, said the other thrusts include plans to protect and develop children, improve and create a more conducive environment for the elderly, empower people with disabilities (PwD), develop and increase the resilience of special groups, boost the country’s visibility internationally and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the public service delivery.
“This strategic plan will be the main reference to set the direction to improve services provided by KPWKM in every policy formulation, development and planning of programmes and activities for the people,” read a ministry statement in conjunction with One-Year Malaysia Prihatin.
According to the ministry, almost 3,300 Welfare Department staff have been deployed to distribute one million food baskets nationwide for the benefit of more than four million people affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and movement control order.
KPWKM said it is also committed to helping the needy and will take proactive and aggressive steps to enable recipients of financial assistance to get out of the shackles of poverty and, thereafter, increase the effectiveness of government aid programmes.
To further assist the people through the Kembara Prihatin Negara (KPN) programme, the Welfare Department has up to March 8, organised 789 programmes in 124 districts involving various government agencies, 145 non-governmental organisations, 57 corporate companies with the help of 1,767 volunteers.
Through the department, the ministry also resolved 10,605 complaints and attended to 141,159 clients, read the statement. – Bernama, March 10, 2021
