The Sarawak Ministry for Women, Childhood and Community Wellbeing Development is mulling a reward for a female teacher who protected kindergarten children from a teen running amok in Tanjung Manis on June 13.
Its minister Fatimah Abdullah, said the teacher at Tabika Kemas Kampung Rajang took courageous action to protect the children from being harmed by the suspect.
“We will try to give an appropriate reward to this teacher for her sacrifice,” she told reporters after the Endowment Fund Sarawak (EFS) and Maternity Assistance (BIB) presentation ceremony in Sarikei yesterday.
In the incident, at around 8.20am, a 17-year-old boy believed to be under drug influence entered the kindergarten compound and caused property damages.
He then attempted to enter one of the classrooms, but the teacher fought him off, resulting in her hands, leg and back sustaining injuries.
The teenager was arrested and investigated under Sections 323 and 427 of the Penal Code.
Meanwhile, Fatimah, in her speech at the ceremony, said as of May 31, 94,781 EFS accounts had been opened, involving an allocation of RM94,781,000.
She said under the EFS initiative, RM1,000 is given in the form of trust savings to every Sarawakian child born in the state starting in 2019.
As for the BIB programme, 48,278 mothers have received one-off assistance of RM450 each from an RM21,725,100 allocation.
- Bernama
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