Hoping Sabah’s young will serve state

KENINGAU: The Sabah Islamic Religious Council (Muis) through the Zakat and Fitrah Division has distributed RM300,000 for the Back To School Programme for 1,200 asnaf children throughout the state.

Muis President Datuk Seri Dr Haji Hasbullah Haji Mohd Taha said through the assistance the recipients aged seven to 18 years old would receive school preparation equipment worth RM 250 each.

“The purpose of the programme is to ease the burden on children as they prepare for school next year,” he told reporters after the handing over of the QSR (M) Holding Berhad business zakat at Juta hotels here.

He said it was to encourage the children to start school in a comfortable condition and focused on their education.

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Hasbullah said it was also an ongoing effort to help asnaf as long as it did not come out the poverty line.

He said the back to school programme was a zakat distribution received from various multi-national companies in the country for the qualified asnaf group of people who were eligible to receive RM250 each to children throughout Sabah.

“With this help these children are able to learn well and gain good knowledge for the education so that they will be good people in the future.

“We hope they can help our nation and our country because the future is very demanding of those with knowledge.

According to him, knowledge is not just from one field but from various multi-skills. When they have skill they will find it easy to get jobs and with work they can build their economy either in the urban or in rural.

Hasbullah hoped that the Sabahans children would no longer to look for a job to other place and would stay here and build this state because Sabah needed them.

“We also work with the Sabah Foundation and various bodies that contribute towards increasing the number of our children studying in this country and abroad,” he said.

“We help them because they have the right to receive it, and with that help, these children will be able to learn well and be knowledgeable and will be a good group in the future not only in primary, secondary, but university to help themselves, their own family and their country.

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“This is because in the future it is very challenging that requires people with knowledge from different fields, when they have the skills they can easily find a job, develop their economy and hope that these young people will not migrate elsewhere to looking for a job but helping to develop the state, “he said.

For Upper Interior Zone, there are 200 children from Keningau, Sook, Tenom and Nabawan will received the zakat and each district 50 asnaf children will receive it.

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