Rombongan Bulan Sabit Merah Belait kunjungi Rumah Orang Tua

Oleh Hajah Saemah Zulkefli

Salah seorang daripada penghuni Rumah Orang Tua Seria yang tidak lagi boleh berjalan turut dilawat ke biliknya kemudian turut dihulurkan sumbangan sempena sambutan Tahun Baru Cina disampaikan oleh Awang Chai Yum Fatt.

SERIA, 28 Jan - Serombongan ahli Persatuan Bulan Sabit Merah cawangan Daerah Belait telah membuat kunjungan ke Rumah Orang Tua dekat sini hari ini.

Rombongan tersebut yang diketuai oleh Pengerusi Persatuan Bulan Sabit Merah cawangan Daerah Belait, Awang Chai Yum Fatt telah turut disertai oleh beberapa ahli-ahli lainnya termasuk Awang Young Kon Siew, Awang Young Kiam Pin, Awang Lim Thian Ming, Awang Chiam Toon Kwang, Awang Liew Hian Hong dan Awang Haji Ismail Kassim.

Kunjungan tersebut merupakan kesinambungan melalui siri lawatan Persatuan Bulan Sabit Merah cawangan Daerah Belait ke jabatan-jabatan kerajaan pada beberapa minggu lalu.

Bersempena dengan sambutan Tahun Baru Cina, persatuan tersebut telah membuat inisiatif untuk mengunjungi penghuni-penghuni Rumah Orang Tua di pekan ini, untuk menyampaikan sumbangan berupa keperluan makanan seharian dan semasa perayaan nanti, dan juga menyampaikan sumbangan "Hoong Pau".

Sumbangan Hoong Pau disempurnakan penyampaiannya oleh pengerusi persatuan tersebut, Awang Chai Yum Fatt disertai sama penyampaian sumbangan Hoong Pau daripada ahli-ahli lainnya yang menyertai kunjungan tersebut.

Sementara itu Awang Chai Yum Fatt ketika ditemui pula menyatakan, persatuan mereka dijangka akan mengadakan perjanjian kerjasama melalui penandatanganan perjanjian persefahaman (MoU) bersama-sama dengan Jawatankuasa Majlis Rumah Orang Tua Seria dalam masa terdekat ini, sebagai salah satu kegiatan mereka dalam meningkatkan kegiatan kemasyarakatan terutama sekali kepada orang-orang tua.

Kunjungan hari ini juga turut bertujuan untuk terus menanamkan perasaan kasih dan sayang terhadap orang-orang tua yang perlu terus diberikan keprihatinan sebagai membantu memberikan mereka kegembiraan dan keceriaan terutama sekali menjelangnya sambutan Tahun Baru Cina yang hanya tinggal beberapa hari saja lagi.

Di samping itu ahli-ahli persatuan itu juga berhasrat untuk meningkatkan pengetahuan dan kefahaman ke atas tugas-tugas yang perlu mereka laksanakan melalui persatuan itu secara penuh komitmen dan ikhlas.

Menurut Awang Chai Yum Fatt, mereka juga akan melaksanakan kegiatan-kegiatan yang menjurus ke arah mengukuhkan ikatan silaturahim bersama-sama dengan masyarakat dan mengetengahkan persatuan mereka untuk lebih dikenali oleh orang ramai dan juga mengajak mereka yang berminat untuk menyertainya terutamanya di kalangan belia-belia.

- Media Permata Online - Sabtu/Ahad 29 Januari 2011

Red Crescent Belait Members Visit Old Folks Home In Seria

By Liza Mohd

The chairman presenting an 'angpow' to an 86-year-old wheelchair-bound woman. - LIZA MOHD

Following visits to several government departments, the Brunei Darussalam Red Crescent Society Belait branch visited the old folks home in Seria yesterday morning.

The group was led by Chairman Mr Chai Yum Fatt.

According to the chairman, the visit is held annually as part of the society's responsibility as a non-governmental organisation to be aware of the welfare of senior citizens at home in the district.

In addition, it hopes to create awareness to the public of their social responsibility to care and provide attention to the elderly, as well as appreciate or acknowledge the elderly contribution to the nation.

During the visit, the visitors handed 'angpows' to the senior citizens.

Festive gifts and hampers were also presented to the old folks home to mark the upcoming Chinese New Year celebration.

The chairman added, "This year, the Red Crescent Society Belait branch hopes to promote the movement of the organisation by building rapports with various communities in the district in order to extend their contributions or services."

Borneo Bulletin Online - 29 January 2010

Belait Red Crescent urged to work with SMEs

BELAIT

Thursday, January 13, 2011

THE Belait Red Crescent Society was recently asked to work more closely with small and medium enterprises in the district with regards to providing training in first aid and emergency procedures by the Kuala Belait and Seria Municipal Office.

The idea was mooted to Belait Red Crescent Chairman Chai Yum Fatt by the Municipal Office Acting Chairman Sarih Tabong during a courtesy visit by the Belait Red Crescent members to the Municipal Office on earlier this week.

The visit by the society was aimed at identifying how both parties can work closer together to provide first aid services to residents in Kuala Belait and Seria.

During the meeting, the Municipal Office Acting Chairman suggested to Chai that Belait Red Crescent should work towards a closer relation with not just government agencies and non-government organisations, but also the smaller businesses.

The idea was to collaborate with various restaurants, departmental stores, food stalls, and workshops under the Municipal Office to provide training assistance to their staff.

No concrete plans have yet been set by either parties, but both agreed to come up with training programmes, to be implemented in stages, so that workers will know how to perform in case of emergency circumstances that might happen in their vicinity.

Also present at the meeting were Belait Red Crescent Society Treasurer Chee Keong Tung and Assistant Chairman Hj Ismail Kassim, as well as officers from the Kuala Belait and Seria Municipal Office.

(Front row from L) Belait Red Crescent Society Treasurer Chee Keong Tung, Belait Red Crescent Society Chairman Chai Yum Fatt, Kuala Belait and Seria Municipal Office Acting Chairman Sarih Tabong, and Belait Red Crescent Assistant Chairman Hj Ismail Kassim. Picture: Courtesy of Belait Red Crescent Society


The Brunei Times

More dry food, diapers needed for Aceh survivors

By Hjh Saemah Zulkefli

THE 300-strong Belait District Red Crescent Association is appealing for more dry foods and disposable diapers as it steps up its collection of clothes, food and medical aid to help the survivors of the tsunami disaster.

The donation campaign started two days after the disaster struck with the opening of a donation reception centre at the association’s offices at Jalan Bendahari.

International Public Communications Officer of the association, Awang Haji Mohd. Ali, said that the association is accepting donations from 7 am to 10 pm everyday.

More than 20 boxes of clothes and baby items have been collected from the Scouts Association, the public and some private companies in the district, he said.

Items such as dry foods and disposable diapers are still needed to help the survivors in the tsunami-stricken Indonesian region of Aceh, he said.

He said that donations were also raised through the sales of flags and donation boxes placed at supermarkets and shops in the district – the collections will continue until February.

He added that about 20 members of the association will be sent to Aceh and Sri Lanka to help the tsunami victims for about six months.

Members of the Belait District Red Crescent Association working hard in collecting aid for the donation reception centre

The aid programme is sponsored by International Red Cross Association of Thailand and run by the International Red Cross Association of Indonesia.

However, the volunteers are still awaiting approval from the Government before they are flown off to the tsunami-hit areas.

- BORNEO BULLETIN, WEDNESDAY 12 JANUARY 2005