Thumbs up for the launching of "SABERKAS Prihatin" program for our local youths

I have commended the Sarawak United Na­tional Youth Or­gan­i­sa­tion (SABERKAS) for having set up a volunteers and welfare unit which will be pro­viding as­sis­tances to in­di­vid­u­als especially local youths who are in need 

The establishment of the ‘SABERKAS Pri­hatin’ program as ‘a youth-fo­cused ini­tia­tive’ meant to en­sure that the association would con­tinue to become relevant to our local community especially among youths  in various as­pects of relevance. The ‘SABERKAS Pri­hatin’ program is be­ing man­aged by Saberkas So­cial and Wel­fare Sub-Com­mit­tee.

Such program will also en­able SABERKAS to be the main unity force among the local youths and the respective com­mu­nities they come from and this will facilitate their progress to become future leaders and responsible members of the society.

As the President of SABERKAS, the association also aims to provide support and as­sis­tances to our tar­get groups and to have volunteers who could come forward to render assistances during floods, land­slides, fires, en­vi­ron­men­tal­re­lated is­sues and health crises. They will also be helping less fortunate members of the society as well as the needy groups such as or­phans, in­di­vid­u­als with dis­abil­ity and poor fam­i­lies.

I thank SABERKAS office bearers for inviting me to grace the launching ceremony of the "SABERKAS Prihatin" program and during the speech I had also stressed for the association to in­cul­cate the spirit of vol­un­teerism among the younger gen­er­a­tion, adding that the mem­ber­ship is open to all youths aged 18 and above – ir­re­spec­tive of race, re­li­gion and po­lit­i­cal af­fil­i­a­tion.

Some of the fu­ture pro­grammes that we are look­ing at would in­clude agri­cul­ture en­trepreneur­ship and erad­i­ca­tion of drugs abuse. I also expressed hope to bring SABERKAS to a higher level and at the same time, for it to re­main rel­e­vant among the youths – this could be achieved by us lis­ten­ing to the feed­back from the grass­roots level.

I have ad­vised all SABERKAS members to go down to the ground and to be en­gaged with our local youths while mak­ing sure that they would stay on track.. On an­other note, all of SABERKAS branches across the state would be given an al­lo­ca­tion of RM3,000 for run­ning ‘Saberkas Pri­hatin’ program. Presently there are 82 of our SABERKAS branches, in­clud­ing four to be set up soon, in Sarawak.

I thanked those who accompanied me during launch­ing cer­e­mony which include my Deputy President,  Datuk Dr Ab­dul Rah­man Ju­naidi who is also our As­sis­tant Min­is­ter of Util­i­ties (Wa­ter Sup­ply); La­yar assem­bly­man YB Ger­ald Ren­tap Jabu, po­lit­i­cal sec­re­tary to chief min­is­ter Michael Tiang and Abang Ab­dul Aziz Datuk Abang Draup – all of whom are Saberkas vice-pres­i­dents; Daro assem­bly­man YB Safiee Ah­mad who is the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s sec­re­tary­gen­eral, and Sadong Jaya assem­bly­man Aidel Lari­woo who is the or­gan­is­ing sec­re­tary.