The Brunei Council on Social Welfare (MKM) was awarded the sixth ASEAN Rural Development Poverty Eradication Leadership Award during a ceremony at the MBS Convention Centre in Singapore on Tuesday.
Receiving the award on behalf of MKM was its president Mohd Yusof bin Shaikh Abdul Halim from Singapore’s Social and Family Development Minister Masagos Zulkifli.
The award was given to the council as ASEAN’s recognition to a non-governmental organisation contributing to the rural community development to eradicate poverty in the region.
-- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin