IN A bid to encourage women, especially single mothers, to involve in business in order to elevate their standard of living, the Kg Lumut 1 Consultative Council (MPK) held a meeting yesterday to discuss the issue.
According to Lumut Village Headman, Hj Md Shafiee Ahmad,the meeting which focussed on ways of generating income was targeted not only at the village women but to all women within the Belait District as well.
"With this meeting we hope to recruit more women to join our Single Mother Project which aimed at helping women to increase their household income," he said.
He said through the meeting they hope to enlighten the women about the project and the business opportunities it offers viewing the fact that the response towards the project has not been encouraging of late. According to him, the number of activities under the project were declining because of the decreasing number of participants.
He said that the village consultative council under newly established cooperative: Ehsana Cooperative Sdn Bhd, has set up a restaurant. The women entrepreneurs who join the project will then be able to sell food items at the restaurant, he added.
According to Hj Md Shafiee the cooperative will be officially launched by Belait District Officer, Hj Jamain Momin on January 16. The highlight of the event was a motivational talk delivered by an invited speaker, Dr Hj Ismail Opak, on generating family income.
In the talk he advised women who wish to open up their own business to start on a smaller scale to gain experience and capital before embarking on the next stage. The project, he said, was a good start. Since the inception of the Single Mother Project n 2006, a number of activities had been conducted for the women such as sewing and embroidering, apart from making local cakes and sweets.
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