Category: Sosial

12,000 Households Receive Financial Help But 360,000 Still Live In Poverty?

According to GOH LI SIAN, RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY COORDINATOR, AWARE’s letter ”Most govt reports do not deal with policies’ budgetary impact” (Today, May 21) – “While these (Government) reports provide some helpful information, they do not tend to address the impact of budgetary policies per se. The statistics referenced in most of these reports relate to the social phenomena within these ministries’ remit, such as the level of crime or number of workplace accidents, rather than the allocation of expenditure under specific initiatives and policies.

ComCare – no applications’ statistics

The ComCare Annual Report is a welcome exception, as it shows how much money is given out under the various ComCare schemes. However, these statistics could be more comprehensive, since figures on the number of applications received are not released.”

My curiousity was aroused by the above, as the ComCare statistics did give the number of applications for financial assistance and the success rate in the past – which apparently has disappeared, according to AWARE’s above letter.

As I had just wrote “1 million living in poverty?” – I looked at the ComCare statistics to see how many needy families actually received financial assistance.

15,699 households received ComCare financial assistance

According to Social Statistics 2014 – the number of families that received ComCare Short-to-Medium Term Assistance was 12,535 in 2013.

The number that received ComCare long-term assistance was 3,164 (I understand that this figure has remained at around 3,000 for more than a decade!).

So, the total number on Short-to-Medium Term and Long-term Assistance was 15,699 (12,535 + 3,164).

But 107,490 households per capita income $494

Even if we do not talk about the bottom second and third deciles of employed households or the 3.4 per cent of non-retiree households with no working persons and 7 per cent of retiree households which may fall below the ComCare criteria of $650 household per capita income – the bottom decile alone had about 107,490 employed households with per capita monthly income of only $494 (including employer CPF).

Only 15% of bottom decile received ComCare financial assistance?

So, does it mean that only about 15 per cent (15,699 ComCare financial assistance divided by 107,490 bottom decile households) actually received ComCare financial assistance?

Only 4% of those in poverty received ComCare financial assistance?

If we relate this to the 360,000 (30 per cent) households) estimated to be in poverty – does it mean that only about 4 per cent (15,699 divided by 360,000) received ComCare financial assistance?

Short-term financial assistance less than $200?

According to the ComCare Annual Report FY2013 – $31.36 million was disbursed to 17,182 households on short-term assistance in FY2013 – with only 6,867 households remaining (still on) assistance as at 31 March 2014.

So, does it mean that the average monthly financial assistance per household was less than $200 ($31.36 million divided by 17,182 = $152)?

Medium-term financial assistance less than $250?

Similarly, $24.34 million was disbursed to 8,774 households on medium-term assistance – with only 5,520 households remaining as at 31 March 2014.

So, does it mean that the average monthly medium-term financial assistance was less than $250 ($24.34 million divided by 8,774 = $231)?

Please tell us more

Why can’t the ComCare annual report just disclose the average amount of monthly financial assistance per household?

Win battles lose war

Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

May 26, 2015
MUIS Agih Wakaf Berjumlah Lebih $2.7 Juta Di Masjid Al Mawaddah

Majlis Ugama Islam (Muis) telah mengagihkan wakaf berjumlah $2,793,035 di Masjid Al Mawaddah di Sengkang semalam.

Ketua Eksekutif Muis, Haji Abdul Razak Maricar, dan Mufti Dr Mohamed Fatris Bakaram, telah merasmikan majlis pengagihan wakaf kepada masjid, madrasah, pertubuhan Islam dan golongan yang memerlukan.

Melahirkan rasa syukur, Haji Abdul Razak berkata agihan itu telah meningkat berbanding $1.13 juta sedekad lalu.

“Berteraskan aspirasi dan sokongan masyarakat Islam, pulangan daripada aset wakaf telah menghasilkan lonjakan yang amat positif.

“Alhamdulillah, tahun ini kita berupaya mengagihkan pulangan aset wakaf tiga kali ganda melebihi pengagihan sedekad yang lalu,” katanya.

Beliau mengajak masyarakat meneruskan legasi dan warisan kedermawanan yang dilakukan pewakif perintis.

“Masyarakat Islam harus mengambil iktibar mengenang bakti dan wawasan para wakif perintis kita yang telah mewakafkan harta mereka…

“Masyarakat hari ini masih berpeluang meraih semangat amal jariah yang sama, dengan menyemarakkan sifat dermawan kita,” kata beliau.

Sebanyak 34 masjid menerima wakaf bagi kerja-kerja operasi, pentadbiran dan pengurusan, termasuk kerja-kerja peningkatan dan pembaikan.

Selain itu, 26 pertubuhan seperti Persatuan Bertindak Ginjal bagi Masyarakat Islam (MKAC), Rumah Kanak-Kanak Pertapis, Casa Raudha, Persatuan Persuratan Pemuda Pemudi Melayu (4PM) dan Persatuan Kebajikan Muslim Singapura turut menerima wakaf bagi membiayai aktiviti mereka dalam program sosial, penjagaan kesihatan dan pendidikan Islam.

Kesemua enam madrasah sepenuh masa juga menerima wakaf daripada Wakaf Ilmu dan wakaf lain.

Ini adalah pengagihan kedua bagi Wakaf Ilmu sejak pelancarannya pada 2012 – pelaburan yang dibuat dari Januari 2014 hingga Disember 2014.

Ustaz Jazair Jumat, Ketua Dakwah dan Islah Masjid Kampung Siglap, berkata wang daripada wakaf itu dapat membantu pembangunan program Al-Quran di masjidnya.

“Di Masjid Kampung Siglap, kami mempunyai Darul Quran Singapura dan insya-Allah kami akan memanfaatkan semaksimum mungkin program-program pembangunan Al-Quran dan pembelajaran Al-Quran,” katanya.

Presiden 4PM, Encik Izzuddin Taherally, pula berkata dengan wang wakaf yang diterima, ia dapat membantu persatuannya mengajak anak-anak muda menyertai program-program kemasyarakatan yang dianjurkannya.

“Kami akan mencapai tujuan itu dengan mengadakan programprogram seperti projek Roda Roda Ramadan, Remaja Resilien dan Frenz bagi membantu golongan belia,” ujar beliau.

Source: http://beritaharian.sg

May 26, 2015
‘Superwoman’ Tidak Wujud
Wanita tetap perlukan sokongan semua orang di sekitarnya dan boleh lakukan lebih lagi untuk majukan masyarakat bersama kaum lelaki, kata Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif PPIS, Cik Maznah Masop

SOALAN (S): Apakah trend mengenai wanita Melayu/Islam yang anda lihat hari ini?

JAWAPAN (J): Wanita hari ini lebih berpendidikan, lebih ramai bekerja serta lebih lantang dan berani meluahkan pendapat mereka, lebih-lebih lagi dengan adanya media sosial.

Mereka tidak lagi hanya membincangkan peranan mereka sebagai ibu dan isteri, bahkan sebagai anggota masyarakat. Mereka bercakap tentang budaya, kepercayaan mereka, isu tentang hijab, misalnya, perkembangan semasa dan dasar pemerintah.

Ini trend positif tetapi kami juga berhati-hati. Ada cara untuk meluahkan pandangan secara objektif untuk memastikan apa yang kita luahkan boleh dikaitkan dengan orang lain, bukan kita syok sendiri sahaja.

S: Apa isu wanita Melayu/Islam yang menjadi keprihatinan anda?

J: Saya prihatin mengenai wanita, yang dalam tekanan kehidupan hari ini, hilang arah, matlamat dan nilai pegangan hingga boleh menjejas tingkah laku moral mereka.

Apabila ini berlaku, ia boleh mendatangkan kesan ke atas anak-anak mereka yang mungkin hilang panduan atau menjejas hubungan suami isteri.

Contohnya, dahulu kita dengar tentang suami mempunyai hubungan sulit. Sekarang, kita dengar tentang wanita juga terlibat dalam hubungan sulit. Ada hamil dengan anak bukan daripada suami mereka. Secara anekdotal ini sedang berlaku.

S: Apa pendapat anda tentang wanita berpendidikan yang menjadi suri rumah?

J: Saya memahami keperluan duduk di rumah selama beberapa tahun, tetapi saya tidak pasti apakah ia perlu berlarutan.

Jika seseorang dianugerahkan bakat, saya fikir ia satu pembaziran jika beliau tidak keluar bekerja untuk menyumbang kepada masyarakat.

Ini pendapat peribadi saya, mungkin ada tidak setuju.

Sudah tentu ada wanita juga menghadapi isu apabila keluar bekerja seperti isu penjagaan anak mereka. Tetapi harap-harap mereka boleh huraikan isu itu dan mendapat sokongan keluarga.

Mereka juga mempunyai sokongan struktur dengan tersedianya pusat jagaan kanak-kanak atau pusat jagaan pelajar.

Jika kita jelas bahawa peranan wanita lebih daripada berada di rumah sahaja, kita boleh lakukan lebih lagi untuk memajukan masyarakat kita bersama kaum lelaki.

S: Apa pendapat anda tentang peranan suami dan bapa dalam konteks kehidupan hari ini di mana wanita juga turut keluar bekerja?

J: Kaum lelaki perlu mengubah pemikiran mereka dan sedar bahawa wanita berperanan penting, bukan sahaja di rumah, bahkan dalam masyarakat.

Mereka perlu lebih proaktif dan menyokong isteri mereka yang berpendidikan untuk menyumbang kepada masyarakat.

Perubahan minda ini harus ditangani sekarang. Ini kerana wanita akan menghadapi lebih banyak cabaran sedang penduduk menua.

Wanita akan memainkan peranan tambahan menjaga orang tua, selain perlu mengimbangi kerjaya dan menjaga anak-anak.

Lelaki mesti mengubah pemikiran mereka dan turut proaktif memainkan peranan juga.

S: Apakah pendapat suami anda tentang jawatan anda sebagai CEO (ketua pegawai eksekutif) sebuah pertubuhan untuk wanita?

J: Isunya bukan saya menjadi CEO. Isunya ialah saya menyumbang secara aktif kepada masyarakat. Perkara ini kami persetujui sebelum kami berumah tangga.

Beliau tahu ini laluan kerjaya yang saya pilih dan beliau menghormatinya.

S: Bagaimanakah anda mengimbangi kerjaya dan keluarga?

J: Saya mempunyai sistem sokongan baik di rumah, baik daripada suami mahupun ibu bapa saya.

Satu episod mencabar bagi saya ialah apabila saya perlu menjaga ibu bapa saya yang sakit. Ayah saya, sebelum beliau meninggal dunia, menghidap barah dan ibu saya telah menjalani pembedahan penggantian pinggul.

Saya bersyukur kerana turut mempunyai sokongan kukuh daripada adik-beradik saya.

Di tempat kerja saya mempunyai majikan dan pekerja yang memahami keadaan saya dan membolehkan saya bekerja secara fleksibel. Saya juga mempunyai seorang pembantu rumah yang banyak membantu.

‘Superwoman’ tidak wujud dalam dunia ini. Seorang wanita perlu sokongan semua orang di sekitarnya.

BIODATA

NAMA: Maznah Masop

USIA: 44 tahun (Julai ini)

KERJAYA:
- 2009 – sekarang: Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif (CEO) Persatuan Pemudi Islam Singapura (PPIS)
- 2005 – 2009: Ketua, Pembangunan Dana, Madrasah Al-Irsyad Al-Islamiah
- 1998 – 2003: Pengarah, Amni Management & Promotions Pte Ltd
- 1994 – 1998: Eksekutif, Perdaus
KELUARGA:
- Dua anak perempuan berusia 17 tahun dan 15 tahun
- Suami jurutera di sebuah syarikat berbilang negara
PENDIDIKAN:
- Ijazah Sarjana Muda Sastera (Ekonomi), Universiti Nasional Singapura (NUS) 1993
- Diploma Undang-Undang Syariah, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) 1998
Source: http://beritaharian.sg
May 26, 2015
Maid Jailed 12 Years For Strangling 16 Year Old Daughter Of Employer

A domestic maid who strangled her employer’s 16-year-old daughter with the girl’s own school pinafore while the teenager was asleep, was on Monday jailed for 12 years.

Indonesian Tuti Aeliyah, 30, pleaded guilty in the High Court to one charge of culpable homicide for killing Shameera Basha Noor Basha, a Secondary 4 student at Tanjong Katong Girls’ School, on Nov 14, 2013.

Tuti was originally charged with murder, but the charge was reduced after she was diagnosed to be suffering from severe depression with psychotic symptoms at the time. Her mental condition was found to have significantly impaired her judgment.

The High Court heard on Monday that Tuti, who started working for the teen’s family of four in April 2012, was not abused or ill-treated by her employers.

But several months before the killing, she started behaving strangely. She lost weight, did not want to call home and cried frequently. Two weeks before the incident, she told a neighbour’s maid that she wanted to commit suicide.

She told a psychiatrist that the night before the killing, she tried to kill herself but failed.

The next morning, Shameera was still asleep and alone at home with the maid after her parents and brother left their Tampines flat. The maid claimed that while she was in the toilet, she saw a ghost which told her to kill the teenager.

At 8am, armed with a kitchen knife, she went into the teen’s room and tried to smother her with a pillow. After Shameera woke up and struggled, the maid stabbed her in the abdomen and chest. The maid then looped Shameera’s dark green pinafore around her neck a few times and pulled both ends until the teen stopped moving.

Tuti then drank half a capful of fabric softener, made superficial cuts on her wrist with a knife and tried to hang herself from from a toilet pipe but failed to kill herself.

Half an hour past noon, when the teen’s mother returned home, the maid told her employer that she had killed Shameera. Shocked, the 47-year-old woman sought help from a neighbour, who called the police.

Source: www.straitstimes.com

May 25, 2015
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May 25, 2015