Single mum hopes to overcome monetary woes by securing job
KUCHING: Single mother Nor Kamira is having a tough time making ends meet despite being a recipient of monthly government welfare aid.
This is especially so after the 23-year- old mother- of- five lost her job as a waitress not long ago, as she frequently took time off to send one of her sons with severe asthma to the hospital for treatment.
The divorcee lives with her mother and children, with the youngest at two years of age, in a small stuffy rented room without any windows in Green Road here..
Her mother currently works as a cleaner to help ease some of the family’s burden, but money is a constant problem for Nor Karmira with rent to pay and so many mouths to feed.
Hope Place is currently helping the family by providing them with basic food aid in the form of rice, cooking oil, noodles and sugar.
“My immediate aim is to find a job,” she said through a statement issued by the non- governmental organisation yesterday.
It is learned that Nor Karmira, who is of mixed race, is fluent in Malay, Iban and Mandarin.
Hope Place carries out its aid deliveries once every three months due to the more than 180 families on its list of recipients.
Those on its recipient list include the disabled, single mothers with school-going children, elderly folk who have been abandoned, as well as those earning less than RM500 a month.
For more information, contact Hope Place on 013- 5672775 or 082- 505987 from 8.30am to noon and 2pm to 5pm ( Monday to Friday) and from 9am to noon on Saturdays.
Those who wish to donate can do so through its Maybank account 5112- 8900-1160 under the name Persatuan Kebajikan Harapan Kuching.