Nancy Shukri: PM might have a surprise for women this International Women’s Day

Nancy chats with Awang Al Muayyad Awang Mulanna – a 10-year-old pupil of Perkata Particular College at Jalan Ong Tiang Swee in Kuching – throughout a photo-call, as different company and officers look on. — Photograph by Roystein Emmor

PM set to unveil new girls’s initiative this Worldwide Girls’s Day

Nancy Shukri hints at particular programme to ease girls’s lives, open alternatives

KUCHING, March 8 — The federal authorities is predicted to unveil a serious initiative for ladies through the Worldwide Girls’s Day 2026 celebration on the Malaysia Worldwide Commerce and Exhibition Centre (MITEC) in Kuala Lumpur this March 10.

On this regard, Girls, Household and Neighborhood Improvement Minister Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri hinted at ‘one thing that had been ready particularly to assist girls, to make issues simpler and to offer alternatives for them to achieve information and obtain help’.

“I can not say a lot. It’s as much as the Prime Minister (Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim) whether or not he needs to announce it, however one thing has been ready, Insha Allah (God-willing),” she advised reporters when met after officiating on the ‘Program Purchasing Raya Pekema Sarawak Bersama Anak-Anak Asnaf dan Anak Yatim’ at a shopping center right here on Sunday.

The Santubong MP was responding to questions on if there can be any vital announcement to be made on the upcoming occasion.

On preparations for this 12 months’s ‘Worldwide Girls’s Day’, themed ‘Memartabat Wanita, Memperkukuh Negara’ (Uplifting Girls, Strengthening The Nation), Nancy stated the occasion, to be launched by Anwar, would spotlight girls icons, in addition to non-government organisations (NGOs) and firms that prioritised collaboration with and higher consideration to girls.

In the meantime, yesterday’s programme concerned 100 kids chosen by the Welfare Division (JKM) – every of whom obtained AEON buying voucher value RM240 that allowed them to pick their very own Hari Raya necessities.

Nancy remarked: “This buying programme is significant to those underprivileged kids, bringing pleasure to them as they put together to welcome the blessed month of Syawal.

“This initiative helps ease the burden of their guardians, in order that the youngsters would stay targeted on their research and future aspirations.”

The federal minister additionally expressed appreciation to the Affiliation of Malay Automobile Importers and Merchants of Malaysia (Pekema) Sarawak, the volunteers, and all events concerned in making the programme a hit.

Additionally current was Pekema Sarawak president Dato Ismail Abang Saufi. — The Borneo Put up