IPOH, June 30 -- When you are done with those plastic rice bags, don't throw them away.

Instead, pass them over to this group of Orang Asli women and have them turn the discarded items into functional bags.

This is the latest initiative by the Making Orang Asli Mothers Independent (Moami) group.

Moami volunteer Carrol Lawrence said the bags are made by Orang Asli women at Kampung Tekir in Labu, Negeri Sembilan.

"It is to empower them. They have been affected by the movement control order," she told Malay Mail.

The bags can be used when you go grocery shopping.

Carrol said prior to the enforcement of MCO, the women were making conference bags.

"But following the enforcement of MCO, meetings had been suspended. Hence we came up with ...