Sabah participants who volunteer receive reward points

KOTA KINABALU: A Social Time Bank system, which “rewards” volunteers with credit hours for their work in Sabah, will be launched in July.

“It allows awards or points in the form of credit hours that can be exchanged with certain offered items,” said Sabah Yang di-Pertua Negeri Tun Juhar Mahiruddin.“This is to give a lifetime record to volunteers and encourage volunteerism among the community as well as government and public agencies in social services,” he said during his opening remarks at the state assembly meeting yesterday.