KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 7 ― The National Service Training Department will send its volunteer brigade to Penang in a humanitarian mission help the state in its post-flood cleaning up operations.
Its director-general Datuk Mohmed Asri Yusof said the brigade would particularly concentrate on schools and roads.
“We are not working alone but together with the Malaysian Armed Forces. The department does not have the expertise to deal with floods in a humanitarian mission so we can only send volunteers to help out in the post-flood cleaning works,” he told Bernama when contacted today.
Mohmed Asri said the number of volunteers to be dispatched to Penang depended on the need.
“We are constantly monitoring the situation,” he said.
About 10,000 trainees are involved in the national service training programme 2.0 at 52 camps nationwide which began on Sept 30 and will end on November 28.
Almost the whole area of Penang was inundated with 0.2 to one metre of flood waters following heavy rain and strong winds since 2pm on Thursday .
The incident has claimed seven lives. ― Bernama
