Fishermens’ kids lack proper education

SANDAKAN: Fishermen are encouraged to increase their technological knowledge in the sector.Chairman of the Malaysian Fisheries Development Authority (LKIM), Muhammad Faiz Fadzil, said it was important for them to stay abreast of current developments in the country’s fisheries sector including proper science.

“This can also be done by ensuring that the fishermen can continue their education and succeed in helping the fishermen’s socio-economic future,” he said. “Therefore, education opportunities among children of fishermen should be given priority by their parents so that they are not left behind in today’s technological era.”

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According to data obtained, about 10 per cent of fishermen in the country failed to provide proper education to children at least until the Malaysian Certificate of Education (SPM) level due to several factors. He hoped this would not happen again and LKIM would continue to look for mechanisms to help fishermen continue their schooling with the help they had.

He said this to the media after officiating the Back-to-School Programme at the Sandakan Pavilion Hotel, Tuesday. It was organised by LKIM for the first time in collaboration with Petronas Dagangan Berhad and the National Fishermen’s Association (Nekmat) who also donated the donations.

About 100 children of fishermen living under the management of the Sandakan Area Fishermen’s Association and the Libaran Area Fishermen’s Association received a donation during the back to school programme.

Apart from Sabah state together with the Sandakan municipality as the host state as well as the host city of the function, the ceremony was held alongside with 300 other recipients hailing from the states of Penang, Sarawak and Pahang, respectively who attended the function.

“Through this programme, we are focusing on improving the socio economic status of fishermen,” he said.

“Certainly, one of the factors to improve or change the life of fishermen from a socio economic standpoint is to improve the education of fishermen’s children,” he added.

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Faiz said the provision of the school’s equipment was also an inspiration for the fishermen’s children to learn more diligently and to give greater effort to change the conditions of the fishermen.

The assistance or contribution from Petronas Dagangan Berhad and Nekmat for the back to school programme will also help ease the burden of fishermen who also need to spend high expenses especially for the preparations of their children’s schooling.

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