NGO urges government to consider extended families first before sending Covid-19 orphans to institutions


  • Nation
  • Tuesday, 14 Sep 2021

IPOH: A non-governmental organisation - OrphanCare Foundation - is concerned about the future of children who became orphans due to the death of their parents because of Covid-19.

The foundation’s chief executive officer Datin Paduka Che Asmah Ibrahim said they hoped that the government would consider other solutions aside from just sending the children to orphanages.

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