By Jacob Achoi
BAU, June 30: St Leo’s Church in Kampung Serasot here today received RM400,000 from Unit for Other Religions (Unifor) via a cheque which was handed over by Deputy Minister of Transport (Riverine and Maritime) Dato Henry Harry Jinep.
The presentation was held in conjunction with a Gawai Dayak open house at Kampung Serasot Multipurpose Hall.
Henry later tolf reporters that the funding from Unifor was in addition to the RM600,000 disbursed under his Rural Transformation Programme (RTP) allocation.
“The funds (from Unifor) today is an addition to the RM600,000 that the church already has to complete the project within one or two years,” Henry, who is Tasik Biru assemblyman said.
“Kampung Serasot is very big and with a huge population, and has many Catholic followers, so such funds will help to complete the project (church),” he asserted.
Henry also said that Unifor has allocated RM150,000 to Kampung Grogok and RM500,000 to Kampung Duyoh, which he has already handed over. — DayakDaily
