KUALA LUMPUR: The Youth and Sports Ministry is ready to deploy its facilities and volunteers to assist flood victims nationwide.

       "The Ministry is ready to offer its facilities, like the state youth and sports complexes, 22 KBS Training Institutes and International Youth Centres (IYC) as temporary evacuation centres.

       "We have also prepared youth volunteers known as the post-flood volunteer squad with the cooperation of the Youth and Sports Department, IYC, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) like Eight For Aid and the KBS Club itself," its Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Faizal Azumu told reporters after launching the KBS Post-Flood Volunteers Squad at MITEC here Saturday (Dec 19).

       "Based on the scale of the disaster we are facing and the non-stop reports, we will definitely need more volunteers.

       "I am not sure how many volunteers we can gather, but surely we can get more than 10,000 people," he added.

       The country has been hit by severe floods in several states such as Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Negri Sembilan, Melaka, Pahang, Terengganu and Kelantan. Last year, the Ministry deployed almost 10,000 volunteers to provide flood assistance and cleaning work. – Bernama