PPB visited the orang asli villages scattered around Tasik Chini in Pahang in November 2021 and identified three suitable candidates for farming activities. These villagers had just embarked on a small-scale farming activity - planting banana, pineapple, serai, coconut and tapioca. Their farming efforts would be wasted during the drought if they did not address the water supply issue.
To empower them in sustainable farming, PPB provided the three candidates with two water tanks each, pumps and materials for piping connection as well as some farming tools to ease their farming activities and prepare for the drought.
PPB contributed laptops and other digital devices to children from nine deserving welfare homes and one orang asli community centre in Semenyih to enable them to progress in e-learning, especially during the pandemic.
Our contribution has enabled the school children to attend online classes more effectively with sufficient digital devices and more advanced versions of software available.
The Supermum project is a collaboration between PPB, the Rotary Club of Petaling Jaya (RCPJ) and Beutifood, a member of Fantastic Food Factory Sdn Bhd, to empower single mothers with baking skills to bake and sell their products to earn a living.
PPB contributed the baking equipment and renovation cost to set up a baking studio at the Majlis Bandaraya Petaling Jaya premises in Taman Megah, Petaling Jaya, as well as transport allowances to each trainee who completes the training programme. The 10-week training programme facilitated by a chef lecturer hired by Beutifood, comprises 10 modules on baking cakes, cookies, pastries, bread, buns as well as equipping them with knowledge as entrepreneurs to bake and sell.
The first batch of 10 single mothers started their training on 7 and 8 July 2020 and completed their last module on 19 September 2020 with a business training module organised by PPB. The module covered topics such as basic accounting, branding, e-commerce as well as in-depth information on flour, facilitated by staff from PPB Head Office, GSC and FFM.
After the completion of training, the single mothers are encouraged to bake to sell whilst RCPJ assists to market their products. One of the single mothers, accepted employment under Beutifood.
In the last quarter of 2020, PPB sponsored the building of an edible garden in the compound of the Community Service Centre for the Deaf (CSCD). This project is part of the CSCD’s revitalization project which started in 2019 and is aimed to provide a wider platform for the deaf and B40 communities including the differently-abled community.
The construction of the edible garden enables members of Silent Teddies and students of CSCD to learn gardening skills as well as create sustainable income for the Centre. Silent Teddies is a social enterprise started by CSCD to reduce dependence on public funding through self-help projects.
The edible garden initial crops were sweet corn and vegetables planted by CSCD’s volunteers. Planting of pineapples and herbs is in the pipeline. The pineapples will be used to make the fillings for their popular jam tarts.
