CCRC’s Visitors Board Member Pastor Frank Ho (2nd right). Looking on are CCRC’s director Iskandar Bin Turkee (right) and Volunteer Clara Chai (left).
KUCHING: Cure and Care Rehabilitation Centre (CCRC) Kuching, located opposite Kuching Sentral, at KM10, Jalan Penrissen here yesterday received donation totaling a sum of RM3,500 from Sinobest Pacific investment Limited. The donation was presented by Sinobest Pacific Investment Limited’s Marketing Manager Alvin Low to CCRC’s Visitors Board Member Pastor Frank Ho at the office of CCRC’s director Iskandar Bin Turkee.
The donation from Sinobest Pacific Investment Limited for CCRC is to carry out rehabilitation programme, treatment and training. Also present was CCRC’s director Iskandar Bin Turkees who disclosed that the centre presently has a total of 150 clients.
The Centre has two settings – one is for Cure and Care Rehabilitation Centre and the other is Klinik Cure & Care Clinic 1Malaysia which is more for volunteerism especially for school children, and also adults who voluntarily come for treatments.
The package takes between three to six months and for those who stay-in the maximum period is between 24 months and the shortest is 12 months based on their performance. The CCRC also has welding and automotive workshops for their training.
“We provide them with vocation training because we want to provide them with the skills, because when they are discharge from the rehabilitation centre they can start to do their own and survive on their own and able to support their own families,” he said.
Iskandar hoped that with the new rehab centre at Jalan Puncak Borneo, we can provide more treatment service for those involved in substance use. The project is expected to be completed next year.
“We provide holistic approach in providing treatment and work together with collaboration with the Sentosa Mental Hospital in term of mental health, with Polyclinic Sentosa for health issue. Provide them with living skills so that they can survive when they are discharge from the Rehabilitation Centre.
Every month, the Centre together with the Visitors’ Board provide them with Integration Programme where they brought them out to do community services.
“We are trying to change the mindset of the public by getting rid of the stigma and we need the support of the public,” he said. “We have to make sure that internally they are stronger and then they can survive.
They must have good support from their family, from the community, and also good support from the politicians,” he said. Iskandar said the CCRC together with its Visitors’ Board is planning to set up alumni for ex-clients next year.
“What I am doing now is to get the data information of our former clients who had were here three years ago and we are going to organise alumni programme for our ex-clients next year,” he said, adding that some of the CCRC’s clients were now very successful businessmen and some had even further their studies overseas.
