The “We Love, We Care, We Share” programme launched collaboratively last year by PBB Wanita & Pemuda Telang Usan and PDK Eda Beran continue its project of helping the needy in society specifically in the Baram parliamentary constituency by giving out Christmas goodies to registered special people or known as Orang Kurang Upaya (OKU) locally this Saturday 19 December 2009.
“We invite the target groups to come to the venue which is at Dynasty Hotel from 9am until 5pm to register themselves. Please bring along relevant documents like IC, birth certificate and OKU certificate from the Welfare Department. This project is for the hardcore poor in the huge Baram district,” said the organising chairlady Elizabeth Deng who is also the PBB Telang Usan Wanita chief.
She told this to the Borneo Post during a press conference yesterday. Also present were the PBB Telang Usan youth chief councillor Dennis Ngau Jok.
The main objective of this programme this year is to register the target group who are from Baram district but currently staying in Miri.
"This is to enable the target group receive assistance from the government through the Welfare Department. There are a lot of OKU from the Orang Ulu community who have yet to register themselves with the department. By not doing so, they deprive themselves from receiving government assistance," explained Dennis.
Last year this programme saw the organising committee receiving hundreds bags of rice from generous members of the public in Miri for distribution to the OKU in the Baram district.
Next year, the organising committee may take a different approach to assist the needy in society.
The Telang Usan assemblyman Lihan Jok is expected to officially launched the programme at 4pm on the same day. ENDS.
Caption: Dennis Ngau Jok
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