Enhancing societal wellbeing and wealth creation: sewing skills programmed for rural housewives in Sabah

This paper proposes eSisterApparel Program and to be adopted as one of the 1AZAM Malaysian government-sponsored programs, raising the economic and social status of women especially of rural housewives in Sabah, Malaysia. This program has the potential to reduce poverty by providing these housewives...

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Main Authors:	Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman, Jaafar, Nurul Syafikha, Che Hassan, Noor Shuhada, Sheikh Kamaruzzaman, Siti Syafikah, Iqbal, Uzma
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	International Organisation of Scientific Research (IOSR) 2014
Subjects:	T58.6 Management information systems
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/36881/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/36881/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/36881/1/IOSRVol19Issue5May2014_sSisterApparel.pdf

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spelling	iium-368812018-06-20T00:24:53Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/36881/ Enhancing societal wellbeing and wealth creation: sewing skills programmed for rural housewives in Sabah Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman Jaafar, Nurul Syafikha Che Hassan, Noor Shuhada Sheikh Kamaruzzaman, Siti Syafikah Iqbal, Uzma T58.6 Management information systems This paper proposes eSisterApparel Program and to be adopted as one of the 1AZAM Malaysian government-sponsored programs, raising the economic and social status of women especially of rural housewives in Sabah, Malaysia. This program has the potential to reduce poverty by providing these housewives with sewing skills, sewing machines, and eSisterApparel Portal in generating new sources of income. Sabah, a state in East Malaysia, has the highest level of poverty and hardcore poverty incidence in Malaysia. Literature reviews and nine (9) blocks of Business Model Canvas (BMC) framework are used as methodology for this paper. As the extent of rural poverty in Sabah is expected to be reduced and societal wellbeing to be enhanced through eSisterApparel Program, an added benefit is the minimization of the rural-urban migration process. This in turn will result in less pressure on government to make provision for additional spending on services such as education, provision of clean drinking water and adequate sewage disposal, housing, and health in urban areas as well as having to deal with a host of problems associated with overgrown cities and towns such as a higher incidence of crime and of shanty towns on the outskirts of these cities. International Organisation of Scientific Research (IOSR) 2014-05 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/36881/1/IOSRVol19Issue5May2014_sSisterApparel.pdf Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman and Jaafar, Nurul Syafikha and Che Hassan, Noor Shuhada and Sheikh Kamaruzzaman, Siti Syafikah and Iqbal, Uzma (2014) Enhancing societal wellbeing and wealth creation: sewing skills programmed for rural housewives in Sabah. IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS), 19 (5). pp. 117-122. ISSN 2279-0837 (O), 2279-0845 (P) http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jhss/papers/Vol19-issue5/Version-4/P01954117122.pdf
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spellingShingle	T58.6 Management information systems Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman Jaafar, Nurul Syafikha Che Hassan, Noor Shuhada Sheikh Kamaruzzaman, Siti Syafikah Iqbal, Uzma Enhancing societal wellbeing and wealth creation: sewing skills programmed for rural housewives in Sabah
description	This paper proposes eSisterApparel Program and to be adopted as one of the 1AZAM Malaysian government-sponsored programs, raising the economic and social status of women especially of rural housewives in Sabah, Malaysia. This program has the potential to reduce poverty by providing these housewives with sewing skills, sewing machines, and eSisterApparel Portal in generating new sources of income. Sabah, a state in East Malaysia, has the highest level of poverty and hardcore poverty incidence in Malaysia. Literature reviews and nine (9) blocks of Business Model Canvas (BMC) framework are used as methodology for this paper. As the extent of rural poverty in Sabah is expected to be reduced and societal wellbeing to be enhanced through eSisterApparel Program, an added benefit is the minimization of the rural-urban migration process. This in turn will result in less pressure on government to make provision for additional spending on services such as education, provision of clean drinking water and adequate sewage disposal, housing, and health in urban areas as well as having to deal with a host of problems associated with overgrown cities and towns such as a higher incidence of crime and of shanty towns on the outskirts of these cities.
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author	Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman Jaafar, Nurul Syafikha Che Hassan, Noor Shuhada Sheikh Kamaruzzaman, Siti Syafikah Iqbal, Uzma
author_facet	Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman Jaafar, Nurul Syafikha Che Hassan, Noor Shuhada Sheikh Kamaruzzaman, Siti Syafikah Iqbal, Uzma
author_sort	Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman
title	Enhancing societal wellbeing and wealth creation: sewing skills programmed for rural housewives in Sabah
title_short	Enhancing societal wellbeing and wealth creation: sewing skills programmed for rural housewives in Sabah
title_full	Enhancing societal wellbeing and wealth creation: sewing skills programmed for rural housewives in Sabah
title_fullStr	Enhancing societal wellbeing and wealth creation: sewing skills programmed for rural housewives in Sabah
title_full_unstemmed	Enhancing societal wellbeing and wealth creation: sewing skills programmed for rural housewives in Sabah
title_sort	enhancing societal wellbeing and wealth creation: sewing skills programmed for rural housewives in sabah
publisher	International Organisation of Scientific Research (IOSR)
publishDate	2014
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/36881/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/36881/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/36881/1/IOSRVol19Issue5May2014_sSisterApparel.pdf
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Enhancing societal wellbeing and wealth creation: sewing skills programmed for rural housewives in Sabah

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