Published on: Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
THE Government does not have any plan to request countries like Indonesia and Philippines to provide a shelter or rehabilitation centre for foreign children caught committing juvenile crimes in Sabah.
Assistant Community Development and Consumer Affairs Minister, Jornah Mozihim, said instead the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry, through her Ministry, is in the midst of planning for a temporary shelter for street children.
The plan is to set it up at the former site of the Sekolah Tunas Bakti in Inanam at a cost of RM1.9million this year.
The allocation has already been channelled to the Welfare Services Department Sabah, she said, adding they are now awaiting the Public Works Department to prepare the plan and work scope.
The proposed shelter for street children will function as a safe house where they will be given vocational training, she told Tanjung Batu Assemblyman Mohd Kamil Datuk Mohd Kassim.
