KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy Women, Family and Community Development Minister Hannah Yeoh says her ministry has received a RM10 million grant from the previous budget to set up childcare centres at government agencies.
She said this is to encourage more women to return to the workforce.
“We are setting up childcare centres in hospitals, schools, prisons and other agencies to encourage mothers that married young and had kids to return to the workforce,” she said at the National Women Empowerment Camp in Brickfields Asia College 2 here today.
“It’s one way to empower women in Malaysia.”
To date, the ministry has received 103 applications from government agencies for the childcare centre programme, 66 of which have been approved. Some centres are existing ones that require minor renovation.
The ministry hopes to complete all 66 childcare centres by the end of this year.