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Yayasan Sarawak helps 700 students

KUCHING: Some 700 students in Subis district have benefitted from the school uniform assistance programme under Yayasan Sarawak. The assistance, in the form of vouchers, would be handed to them through the education department. The benefitting students are from 49 schools under the Subis District Education Department. Last Thursday, Assistant Minister of Women, Family and […]

Needy pupils receive school bags

PADAWAN: Pupils from three primary schools here received school bags courtesy of Persatuan Gerakan Kemajuan Kota Padawan in collaboration with Batu Kitang constituency. A total of 300 school bags were distributed to the schools namely SJK Chung Hua Batu 10 (150), SK Landeh (75), and SK St David (75). Batu Kitang assemblyman Lo Khere Chiang […]

Family of nine receive assistance worth RM10,150

KUCHING: The state government, through the Sarawak Social Welfare Department (JKMS), gave relief aid worth RM10,150 to a family on Thursday (July 2). Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah handed over the aid to the head of the household, Shamsu Kawie. Shamsu’s double-storey house in Kampung Semerah Padi […]

School welcomes all forms of assistance

SIBU: Sacred Heart Secondary School welcomes and appreciates all forms of assistance from the community, said its principal David Teo Wu. “As our school is not fully funded by the authorities, any help extended means a lot to everyone here,” he said. Teo also said the school relied heavily on the community’s support to grow […]

Don’t misuse education aid, parents advised

SIBU: Parents are urged not to misuse the education aid provided by the government for their children. Assistant Minister of Education, Science and Technological Research Dr Annuar Rapaee said the assistance from the government must benefit the students. He was speaking at a presentation of Yayasan Sarawak school uniform vouchers at the Resident Office here […]

26,167 students to benefit

School Uniform Assistance 2020 SIBU: Yayasan Sarawak’s School Uniform Assistance 2020 will benefit 26,175 students, involving a cost of RM5,235,000. Yayasan Sarawak director Azmi Bujang said that the assistance vouchers for uniforms had been distributed to all Resident’s Offices throughout Sarawak. He said the programme, started in 2001, supplies school uniforms including shoes and bags […]

136 receive school aid

MIRI: A total of 136 school children received assistance at the ‘Handing Over of School Necessities to Single Mothers’ Children’ at a shopping complex here yesterday. The event is one of the annual programme organised by the Kelab Sosial dan Kebajikan Harmoni Miri in collaboration with the Single Mother support group. Assistance provided was schooling […]