State wants to promote literacy and reading from an early age

Rashidah (seated centre) showing learning materials under its Reading Seeds programme to Fatimah (right)

KUCHING: Parents at govern­ment hospitals and clinics through­out Sarawak will receive special reading kits for their newborns.

The free distribution, courtesy of the Sarawak State Library in collaboration with the state Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Develop­ment Ministry, starts in May.