The solution project for the villagers in Desa Menteri Block 4, Petaling Jaya aims to help B40 community, single mothers and unemployed residents to expand their knowledge in entrepreneurship program through Women Economic Empowerment platform which focusing on food catering as the core business.
This group will be the first cohort of community entrepreneurs. While being developed as entrepreneurs, they will help to establish this platform and a physical place of activity where new cohorts of potential entrepreneurs from Petaling Jaya can be trained.
The solution project funded by the APPGM-SDG opens up opportunity to B40 communities to involve in entrepreneurship program especially in food catering business. This will later expand to other related business involving trading and event management.
The project is to benefit B40 community, single mothers, small business entrepreneurs and others that cannot find employment. The solution provider of this project is Persatuan Penduduk Petaling Jaya 2017 (MYPJ). The project duration is five (5) months from July to November with an allocation of RM40,000.00.
The main SDGs impacted through this solution project is SDG1: No poverty, SDG5: Gender equality, SDG8: Decent work and SDG10: Reducing inequality.