Sarawak CM hands out endowments to first recipients of new incentive

Mazanah Bohli showing the endowment fund certificate of RM1,000 for her newborn daughter Sharifah Adrjana Anjqah Wan Mohamad Radzi. - ZULAZHAR SHEBLEE / THE STAR

KUCHING: Some 55 babies born in the first week of the year have become the first recipients of the Sarawak endowment fund of RM1,000 each.

Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg said the one-off incentive, which can only be withdrawn when the child reaches 18 years of age, was meant for their further education or to help them start their career.