Hatijah (left) launching Sabah Nur Muhammad Organization for Welfare and Education.
KOTA KINABALU: The newly launched Sabah Nur Muhammad Organization for Welfare and Education will provide welfare services to about 120 less privileged children who include orphans, the disabled and the poor.
Director of Yayasan Kebajikan dan Perkhidmatan Perubatan Malaysia (YKPPM) cum chief executive officer of GISB Holdings Sdn Bhd, Ibu Hatijah Aam, said this on Sunday during the launch of the organization at Wisma MUIS here.
The Nur Muhammad Organization, which was established on March 12 and comprises of the Kota Kinabalu Kesayangan Children’s Home, Cahaya Rindu Nur Muhammad Children’s Home, Kota Belud and Cahaya Kasih Sayang Children’s Home, Keningau is under the patronage of YKPPM.
She hopes the organization which focuses on welfare and education will provide the children with the necessary physical and spiritual guidance necessary for development.
“The younger generation are assets to religion, race and the nation and they need to be supported and nurtured,” she said.
According to her, the welfare of the poor, orphans and physically disabled should be the responsibility of the more privileged ones in society.
“The movement stands in the name of charity and service,” Hatijah added.
She further said there would always be a class divide between the rich and the poor despite a nation having achieved a developed status.
“The existence of the less privileged and needy is not an insult or burden to society but it is for us to practise love, compassion and harmony,” she said.