Keeping frontliners protected

Single mothers and low-income women sewing woven bags of different sizes at YPKDT’s Johor Baru Centre of Suri in Jalan Petri, Johor Baru.

JOHOR BARU: A group of single mothers and women from low-income families are lending a hand in making 1,500 personal protective equipment (PPE) for medical frontliners involved in the nation’s battle against Covid-19.

The project is part of Johor’s Darul Ta’zim Family Development Foundation (YPKDT) PPE sewing project, initially called the creative sewing programme.