By DayakDaily Team
KUCHING, Nov 24: The financial position of Sarawak United National Youth Organisation (Saberkas) is still strong as a result of dividends and asset rentals.
According to a report by Sarawak Public Communications Unit (Ukas), Sarawak Minister of Youth, Sports and Entrepreneur Development Dato Sri Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah who is also Saberkas president said this strong financial position has enabled the organisation to allocate RM1.7 million from its own funds to all branches throughout Sarawak.
“Saberkas central previously channelled an allocation of RM21,000 for each Saberkas branch for them to carry out activities.
“The money is the result of Saberkas’ own efforts, namely the proceeds from asset rental and also from the dividends we get from our investments,” he said at a press conference after chairing the 58th Saberkas Supreme Committee Meeting yesterday (Nov 23).
Abdul Karim added that Saberkas now has 82 branches throughout Sarawak, an increase from just over 40 branches previously.
Apart from the RM1.7 million in funding from the organisation’s own efforts, Saberkas also received an injection of RM650,000 from the Sarawak government.
In the meantime, Abdul Karim said, the organisation has successfully organised 272 programmes at unit, branch and state-levels.
“Of this total, 208 programmes were held by Saberkas itself and another 64 were jointly organised with strategic partners such as the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Entrepreneur Development (MYSED), the Ministry of Youth and Sports Malaysia (KBS), the Department of Youth and Sports, the Malaysian Youth Council, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), banking agencies and many more,” he explained.
As of today, Saberkas has a total of 55,694 members throughout Sarawak.
Also present were Deputy Minister in the Sarawak Premier’s Department (Law, MA63 and Federal-State Relations) and Saberkas vice president Datuk Sharifah Hasidah Sayeed Aman Ghazali and Saberkas secretary-general Safiee Ahmad. — DayakDaily
