B40 mums hone their baking skills to make a living

Mothers learning to bake cookies during the training organised by MyPJ at the Pusat Aktiviti Komuniti Prihatin Desa Mentari in Petaling Jaya.

THE adage “teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”appears to be the best solution to solve urban poverty.

This was the approach MyPj, a coalition of Petaling Jaya residents associations and Rukun Tetangga, adopted to help 10 mothers from the B40 category at the Desa Mentari low-cost flats in Petaling Jaya.