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The State Environment Protection Department (EPD) in collaboration with the State Education Department, State Wildlife Department, Borneo Sun Bear Conservation Society, Reef Check Malaysia and Pacos Trust held a two-day Virtual Environmental Education (EE) Race here
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Shahelmey posing for a group photo with Jannie and the Pacos Trust team and others.
Kota Kinabalu: Pacos Trust hopes the GRS-led State Government will protect children’s rights by implementing programmes that were previously adopted through inter-departmental consultations and collaborative programmes with non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
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At the courtesy visit to Community Development and People’s Wellbeing Minister Shahelmey Yahya, Thursday, a team from Pacos Trust together with Kapayan Assemblywoman Jannie Lasimbang briefed Assistant Minister Flovia Ng, Sabah Women Affairs Department (Jhewa) Director Rosnah Kuyung, Sabah Social Services Director Jais Asri, and other officers from the Ministry.
In their community learning centres, children are taught the alphabet with words and pictures of ingredients used to make traditional dishes. Photos: Pacos Trust
Anne Lasimbang, founder and executive director of Pacos Trust, is a firm believer that language, food and culture are intertwined. This is the driving force behind some of the organisation’s efforts in promoting the usage of indigenous languages in daily life.
In their community learning centres, children are taught the alphabet with words and pictures of ingredients used to make traditional dishes.
And on the Kivatu Nature Farm – which shares the same space as Pacos Trust’s headquarters in Penampang in Kota Kinabalu – they can grow their own food and learn how to make traditional dishes with the vegetables and fruits they harvest.