"Tan Miyat" Center Distributed 489 Food Packages

  • "Tan Miyat" Center Distributed 489 Food Packages
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Writer :
Humas Dit. Rehsos PD
Editor :
Intan Qonita N
Translator :
Zahra Ainussyifa; Karlina Irsalyana

BEKASI (22 May 2020) - The COVID-19 pandemic that is currently happening in Indonesia has a huge impact on society, especially for people with disabilities, vulnerable groups and other affected victims. To ease the burden on persons with disabilities, vulnerable groups and other victims affected by COVID-19, the "Tan Miyat" Social Rehabilitation Center for Persons Visual Sensory Disabilities (BRSPDSN) in Bekasi distributed 489 social assistance packages in the form of basic food packages worth Rp. 300,000, - 378 packages in Bekasi City and 111 packages in Bekasi Regency, the total assistance is Rp. 146,700,000, -.

 

The social assistance for basic necessities was symbolically handed over by the Director of Social Rehabilitation for Persons with Disabilities, Eva Rahmi Kasim, accompanied by the Head of the Netra "Tan Miyat" Center, Iriani Rahayuningsiwi at DPP Pertuni Bekasi City.

 

On that occasion, Eva said that the government is trying to accommodate the needs of people with disabilities affected by COVID-19 who may be lost or lost income because most of the aid recipients work as masseurs. With the application of social distancing and physical distancing rules, the masseuse was forced to close the massage service.

 

The Director of the RSPD also said that the Ministry of Social Affairs came to distribute aid from the BRSPDSN Tan Miyat Bekasi Center in the form of basic foodstuffs which are expected to be used properly as food on Eid al-Fitr. Not to forget, she appealed to the identity of members of the management of organizations of persons with disabilities to be completely recorded and submitted to the local social office so that the data is orderly and makes it easier for the distribution of social assistance.

 

The distribution of basic food social assistance in Bekasi City is channeled through LKS, including through Pertuni 146 packages, HWDI 120 packages, ITMI 36 packages, SLB N Bekasi 61 packages, and 25 packages Community. Meanwhile, the distribution in Bekasi Regency through LKS Pertuni was 101 packages.

 

In his remarks the Head of the BRSPDSN Tan Miyat Bekasi Iriani said that the Ministry of Social Affairs has symbolically provided social assistance in the form of food packages to several organizations of persons with disabilities, special schools, alumni of BRSPDSN Tan Miyatand the less fortunate community.

 

"We also informed the BRSPDSN Tan Miyat "Center to prepare temporary shelters until June. Especially for women and children, if there are mothers and their children who are neglected, they can go to the Bekasi" Tan Miyat "Hall where we facilitate their basic needs. if there is no more covid-19 we can return them to their families, "he added.

 

In the future, Balai Netra "Tan Miyat" will continue the distribution of basic food assistance in the districts of Karawang, Purwakarta, Subang, Majalengka, Indramayu, Cirebon and Kuningan.

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