Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin calls on corporate companies to provide opportunities to low-income B40 households to live a more comfortable life and generate their own income.

While praising textile and interior design company Eastern Decorator giving their fabric leftovers to 30 housewives from PPR flats to turn it into household items, the minister such initiatives should be emulated by other companies.

“The company told me that they have no use of the fabric leftovers, so I told them to give it to the housewives at Jalan Hospital PPR flats so that they can sew them together to make pillowcases or quilts.

“Their fabric leftovers are of very good quality, by doing this the B40 households can enjoy the comfort of good pillowcases and quilts,” she told reporters after visiting the Eastern Decorator factory in Khantan Industrial Area, near Ipoh today.

Zuraida said that her ministry was talking to the company about providing sewing machines and coming up with a business model for this venture in the future.

Earlier, in a visit to the Ipoh City Council (MBI), Zuraida commended the city council's strict enforcement that saw the markets here not dominated by foreign immigrants as in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur.

- Bernama