JKM wants a volunteer for each of its 57,000 clients
SIBU: Sarawak Welfare Department ( JKM) wishes to have a volunteer each for its 57,000 clients in the state.
Acting Sarawak JKM director Joni Nuruddin said at the moment there are a total of 1,852 volunteers registered with the department.
“The volunteers are insufficient to meet the number of our clients and the size of the state.
“Ideally, every client should have one volunteer assigned to him or her. We hope to get more volunteers to achieve this in the future,” he said during the opening of ‘ Voluntary Service Empowerment Seminar’ held in conjunction with World Volunteers Day here on Wednesday.
Assistant Minister of Women, Family and Childhood Development Rosey Yunus officiated at the function.
Earlier, Joni said that volunteers are the department’s strategic partners who help and facilitate its service delivery and to ensure its services reach the grassroots.
He also said that the department will set key performance index ( KPI) for its voluntary service starting next year.
“The KPI is for individual voluntarily works and organising of programmes. Previously most voluntarily work was done in groups.
“We want our volunteers to work individually and comply with ethics as a volunteer to give quality services to our target group,” he said.
On a similar matter, Joni said that the department’s welfare volunteer organisations in 12 divisions in the state are now officially registered with the Registrar of Societies.
“The official registration will facilitate movements of our volunteers in organising planned and structured activities and meetings,” he said.