Rep insists on education to eradicate poverty

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KUCHING: Tasik Biru assemblyman Dato Henry Harry Jinep is an advocator of education being the antidote to eradicate hardcore poverty.

He said the reason he had built homes for the poor in his constituency was because he was worried about the young children.

“These young children when they wake up they must have proper place and proper kitchen for meals before they go to school.

“The poor primary school students who live in poverty, they don’t even have a proper place to stay, place to sleep, kitchen to cook and to eat.

“So what do you expect them to do when they don’t even have a place to prepare themselves in the early morning?

“To get rid of hardcore poor we must make sure that the poor parents send their children to school like anyone else,” he told The Borneo Post after launching the Chung Hua Bau Alumni Association headquarters in Bau yesterday.

Henry believed that when parents send their children to school, and they have better education, they will help to build up their family.

“This is the history I have gone through. I have experienced life through hardship, and I myself as a kampung boy, I have gone through all these,” he said.

Henry, however, said job creation was not for the government alone to shoulder.

He said the main role of the government was to bring infrastructure development.

“To reduce poverty, there must be connectivity, the physical road and bridges, because these will open up many new areas.

“When these new areas are open up all over, of course the investor will try to find out what to invest in the area,” he said.

Henry said investors would only come when the infrastructure is in place.

He said as an assemblyman, he would make sure that every infrastructure project that the government had approved in Tasik Biru would be implemented.

“The state government had approved many infrastructure development projects in my area.

“Hopefully when investors see Bau as a good place to invest, when they see all the alternative roads, infrastructure coming in, they (investors) will come to invest and provide employment for the local people,” he said.