KUALA LUMPUR: Some RM42.5mil was given out as aid to help some 14,263 single fathers out of an estimated 250,000 single fathers nationwide.
In a written reply to a question by Er Teck Hwa (DAP-Bakri), the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry stated that RM42.5mil was given to the single fathers to help them raise their children between 2010 and June 2013.
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