Who are we

Pertubuhan Tindakan Wanita Islam (PERTIWI) is a project oriented voluntary organisation dedicated towards addressing the welfare and needs of women and children. For more than 44 years PERTIWI has played a vital role in providing various forms of assistance. This has included lobbying for women’s rights in Malaysia, educating, nurturing and empowering women, while maintaining their traditional family role. Some of PERTIWI’s social missions and welfare activities include the provision of literacy skills and education awareness seminars, provision of medical aid to remote villages, sponsorships for educating foster children, and the provision of skills training for single mothers, among other programmes. PERTIWI’s activities are run by a central committee and by groups of volunteers from all walks of society.

Our services

To help extend its reach into the community, PERTIWI commenced its mobile soup kitchen project in March 2010 to provide free meals to the homeless and hardcore poor people in Kuala Lumpur’s inner city four nights each week.

Soup kitchens can be found in many of the world’s cities. They exist to provide basic meals to those who go hungry, not because they are lazy or are looking for handouts, but because they simply cannot get enough food or proper nutrition. Those in need may include children, parents and the elderly. Malaysia’s economic success and prosperity has ensured that hunger is not a matter of not having any food at all, but whether those in need are getting enough food on a regular basis and whether we care enough to provide food to them.

Soup kitchens provide an important way to give back to the community by offering a healthy meal to those who are in need. The few soup kitchens that do operate in Kuala Lumpur are already providing this critical service but there are still too many homeless and hardcore poor people in our city who are unable to eat properly on a daily basis.

The PERTIWI Soup Kitchen project provides a humanitarian food-aid service to the hardcore poor irrespective of race or religion. By interacting with various destitute inner city communities on a regular basis, additional support programmes have been introduced to address the needs of the people we serve, such as our medical services for the needy.

The areas we serve are Chow Kit, Kota Raya, Masjid India, Masjid Negara and Syed Putra. Between 500-700 food packets may be served at three or more locations, depending on the number of people lining up for food.

PERTIWI volunteers, in association with other volunteer groups, individuals, college and university students, employees of corporate organizations, have come together to make the PERTIWI Soup Kitchen a warm and caring community outreach project where we get to see volunteers from all races and religions, working together with so much care, reaching out to the homeless and hardcore poor.

Talk to us

Please join PERTIWI Soup Kitchen on Facebook for the latest updates. Do email us at [email protected] if you have any question.

 

Siapa kami 

Pertubuhan Tindakan Wanita Islam (PERTIWI) merupakan sebuah organisasi sukarela berasaskan projek yang berdedikasi untuk menangani kebajikan dan keperluan wanita dan kanak-kanak. Selama 44 tahun lebih PERTIWI telah memainkan peranan penting dalam menyediakan pelbagai jenis bantuan. Antaranya melobi untuk hak-hak wanita di Malaysia, mengajar, memupuk dan memperkasakan wanita sambil mengingatkan peranan tradisional mereka dalam keluarga. Antara misi sosial dan aktiviti kebajikan PERTIWI termasuklah penyediaan kemahiran membaca dan seminar kesedaran pendidikan, penyediaan bahan perubatan ke kampung-kampung yang terletak di kawasan pedalaman. Selain itu, memberi penajaan tentang mendidik anak yatim dan juga penyediaan latihan kemahiran untuk ibu tunggal. Aktiviti PERTIWI dikendalikan oleh sebuah jawatankuasa pusat dan juga badan sukarelawan dari pelbagai lapisan masyarakat.

Perkhidmatan kami

Menjangkau lebih jauh dalam masyarakat , PERTIWI telah memulakan operasi ” soup kitchen” mudah alih pada bulan Mac 2010. Projek ini ditubuhkan untuk menyediakan makanan percuma kepada golongan yang tiada tempat tinggal dan juga golongan sangat miskin di kawasan dalam bandar Kuala Lumpur. Project ini dilaksanakan sekerap empat malam seminggu.

“Soup kitchen” wujud kebanyakannya di bandar-bandar besar. Dengan adanya “soup kitchen” makanan asas dapat dihulurkan kepada golongan yang lapar bukan hanya kerana mereka malas mencari nafkah malah tidak boleh mendapat makanan berkhasiat yang secukupnya. Golongan yang memerlukan merangkumi kanak-kanak, dewasa, warga tua. Keadaan ekonomi di Malaysia telah memastikan bahawa kelaparan bukanlah masalah untuk tidak mempunyai makanan, tetapi sama ada mereka yang memerlukannya mendapat makanan secukupnya secara berkala dan sama ada kita peduli untuk memberi makanan kepada mereka. 

“Soup kitchen” merupakan cara penting untuk memberi semula kepada masyarakat dengan menawarkan makanan sihat kepada yang memerlukan. Sesetengah “soup kitchen” yang sedia ada di Kuala Lumpur telah menyediakan khidmat penting tetapi masih ramai golongan sebegini tiada tempat tinggal dan amat miskin yang tidak memperoleh makanan sihat setiap hari.

“Soup kitchen” PERTIWI menyediakan perkhidmatan bantuan makanan kepada golongan sangat miskin tidak kira bangsa atau agama. Perinteraksian antara masyarakat dalam bandar secara berkala telah dapat menyumbang kepada program tambahan seperti perkhidmatan perubatan untuk golongan memerlukan.

Perkhidmatan kami sekarang meliputi kawasan Chow Kit, Kota Raya, Masjid India, Masjid Negara dan Syed Putra. Antara 500-700 bekas makanan diberi di kawasan ini berdasarkan jumlah orang yang beratur untuk terima makanan. 

Sukarelawan PERTIWI dengan kerjasama kumpulan sukarela lain, individu, kolej dan pelajar universiti, serta kakitangan syarikat telah berjaya menubuhkan “soup kitchen” ini sebagai suasana yang mesra dan penyayang agar dapat menghulurkan bantuan kepada golongan yang tiada tempat tinggal dan golongan sangat miskin.

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Pertubuhan Tindakan Wanita Islam (PERTIWI)

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+603 7874 4203 Phone Number
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Established since 1967Year of Establishment
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