Golongan sasar diberi perhatian

Rabu 23-6-2010

Golongan sasar diberi perhatian

PETALING JAYA SELATAN - Pejabat Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Taman Medan dengan kerjasama Jabatan Perancangan Pembangunan Majlis Bandaraya Petaling Jaya (MBPJ) akan mengadakan program bantuan berterusan kepada golongan miskin, orang kurang upaya (OKU) dan warga emas di Taman Medan.

ADUNnya, Haniza Mohd Talha berkata, bagi tujuan itu pihaknya dan MBPJ sebagai sebuah pihak berkuasa tempatan (PBT) yang proaktif akan mengadakan program pencarian golongan yang kurang berkemampuan di Taman Medan untuk dibantu.

Katanya, sebagai langkah awal program berkenaan akan mencari 100 golongan yang memerlukan bantuan di sekitar kawasan itu.

“Antara perkhidmatan yang diberikan ialah membantu penduduk yang rumahnya mengalami kerosakan seperti kebocoran, tidak kukuh, ataupun diserang serangga perosak seperti anai-anai.

“Selain itu, bantuan perkhidmatan van percuma untuk golongan OKU, terutamanya yang berkerusi roda akan ditawarkan,” katanya ketika ditemui selepas melancarkan Program Bantuan Kemudahan Penduduk Miskin, OKU dan Warga Emas di sini.

Hadir sama, Pengarah Perancang Bandar MBPJ, Sharipah Marhaini Syed Ali.

Haniza yang juga Timbalan Speaker DUN berkata, kemudahan yang disediakan itu bagi memudahkan golongan sasar terbabit ke klinik, hospital ataupun ke destinasi yang memerlukan bantuan untuk dihantar.

Katanya, perkhidmatan bas percuma di dalam DUN Taman Medan juga akan disediakan untuk golongan miskin.

Bas itu katanya, mengikut laluan RapidKL dan dikhususkan penggunaannya untuk golongan yang miskin.

“Justeru, kami sangat mengharapkan dengan adanya program seumpama ini, golongan yang miskin tidak lagi terasa dipinggirkan oleh arus pembangunan bandar,” katanya.

Sementara itu, katanya, bagi memastikan tiada golongan memerlukan terlepas pandang, pihaknya berharap pemimpin masyarakat dan wakil penduduk bersama-sama mengenal pasti individu yang layak menerima bantuan mengikut kategori di kawasan masing-masing.

“Kita mahu membantu seberapa ramai golongan yang memerlukan bantuan, tetapi matlamat ini tidak akan tercapai jika pemimpin masyarakat atau wakil penduduk tidak membantu kita mengenal pasti mereka yang layak diberikan bantuan.

“Apa yang kita harapkan golongan ini benar-benar dapat memanfaatkan sumbangan yang diberikan,” katanya.

Monday June 21, 2010

MBPJ reaches out to poor
By YIP YOKE TENG

THE Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) has embarked on a pro-active campaign to go door to door to provide aid for the poor and the disabled.

With only 150 disabled people and 450 poor families registered, the council feels that its activities and facilities have not reached the target groups as desired.

As such, a programme was launched on Saturday at the Taman Dato Harun market in PJS2, Petaling Jaya, to reach out to the disabled, poor and senior citizens in the city.

Taman Medan assemblyman Haniza Mohd Talha, MBPJ planning department director Sharipah Marhaini Syed Ali, councillors Anthony Thanasayan, Halimey Abu Bakar and Prof Madya Melasutra Md Dali were present at the event.

The launch also highlighted the facilities the council had been providing for the poor, among them are:
Thoughtful service: Haniza (middle), Sharipah (right) and Anthony unveiling the van used to transport disabled persons around the city.

·Two community buses plying PJU and PJS;

·Two vans equipped with hydraulic lift to transport the disabled around the city;

·One mobile clinic that now travels to PPR Kota Damansara and Taman Sri Manja, but will expand its service to Impian Baiduri; and

·Various financial aid for poor families with schooling children and ill members.

Counters were set up at the site to register disabled people and poor families.

“Today we are launching a programme to look for the disabled, poor families and senior citizens, instead of waiting for them to come to us for help.

“MBPJ is the first local council in the country to take the initiative,” Haniza said.

“We target to have another 100 families registered with us by the end of the year and we will send a team to visit them one by one so that we can help them according to their needs.

“We hope they will realise that the council does care for them and respect their right to live a quality life like others in this city. With this campaign we can create an even more harmonious society,” she added.

The team that will visit the poor families comprises Thanasayan and officers from the planning department and Haniza’s service centre. They will also make trips to Lembah Subang, PJS 1 to PJS 6 and Kota Damansara.

Sharipah said even though the council had been providing various facilities for the target groups, the response had not been as good.

“We will look at all their needs including home environment and may even offer to turn their washrooms into disabled-friendly ones,” she said, adding that the council had set aside RM30,000 to provide the service and would also request developers to contri­bute to the cause dollar-to-dollar.

Thanasayan hoped that other local councils and state governments would emulate MBPJ’s proactive efforts in reaching out to the target groups.