KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 (Bernama) — Yayasan PETRONAS has starting rolling out its Back To School 2022 (BTS 2022) Programme this week, contributing school supplies and hygiene kits to 36,000 lower primary and lower secondary school students from low-income households across Malaysia, in preparation for the 2022 academic year.
BTS 2022 has expanded its reach this year to include 14,000 lower secondary students in addition to 22,000 primary school students, from a total of 21,000 beneficiaries last year. The significant increase had taken into account the 580,000 M40 households that are now placed in the B40 category due to the pandemic, as reported by the Department of Statistics Malaysia.