KUCHING: Sarawakians are invited to participate in the State Level Rabies Awareness Short Video Competition 2020.
According to the State Information Department, entry to the competition is free and it offers lucrative prizes of RM5000, RM3000 and RM2000 to the first, second, third place winners respectively.
The competition also offers RM1,000 to four consolation winners as well as participation certificates to all who take part.
“Participations are by individuals and each participant can submit more than one entry based on one of the genres such as drama, sketch, comedy and documentary.
“Participants only need to prepare a video of between two and three minutes based on the theme ‘Be Aware of Rabies’ which covers at least three of the five scopes of the rabies campaign such as signs and symptoms, measures taken during and after bites, vaccination programmes, advices and the hopes and dangers of rabies,” it said in a statement issued yesterday.
The department added the resources that could be used could be found on the Ministry of Health’s website at www.infosihat.gov.my, www.myhealth.gov.my and the Department of Veterinary Service’s website at http://www.dvs.sarawak.gov.my.
The video of the winner of this competition will be announced and displayed during the World Rabies Day which is expected to be held here on September 28.
Participants are required to submit completed entries along with the relevant forms to videorabies@gmail.com no later than or before September 11 at 5pm.
Conditions and entry forms are available throughout all Districts at Information Departments or via Google Drive at:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1H0zioOImfb8SuFX6InekkwuAy_kzVFyQ?usp=sharing.
