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27th January, 2003
The rice harvest in Bario is all but over now. The
long-awaited Indonesian workers, having completed harvesting on their side of
the border, finally turned up and the labour problem in Bario ended!
22nd January, 2003
Eleven members
from the Miri Central Lion's Club visited Bario on a two-day trip between
17th and 19th January 2003 to promote an
awareness of eye health. Its President, Mary Wee, herself an
optician from Bright Optical in Miri, and Organising Chairperson, Pearl Wee,
were accompanied by Miri General Hospital Optometrist Miss Lee Hui Hong,
Medical Officer Dr Mahiran and other Lions members from their club.
On 19th
January, between 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and again from 8 p.m. to 11
p.m., they screened 120 school students and 60 elderly people
from Bario Asal, Arur Layun, Arur Dalan and Bued Main Beruh longhouses.
A total of 102 persons, found to be in need of it, were given
spectacles donated by Miri Central and Bright Optical Proprietor, President
Lion Mary Wee. About forty people were found to have cataracts or
more serious abnormalities - they have been asked to seek follow-up treatment
at the Miri General Hospital.
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Junior School Dormitory at Bario
Inside the Junior School Dormitory
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13th January, 2003
The
Lion's Club of Miri Central is planning a two-day trip to Bario on 17th
January. Their President, Mary Wee, and Organising Chairperson,
Pearl Wee, will be accompanied by two opticians and auxillary medical
personnel. They plan to check the eyesight of the children and
old people of Bario, and provide spectacles to those who need
them. They will also conduct diabetes screening tests, and give
family planning advice.
11th January, 2003
I expect
it is normal to be wise after the event, and to start worrying about safety
and fire hazards after that the school dormitory fire which killed five
primary school children in Ulu Balingian.
Just how
safe is the dormitory at Bario Junior School? It too is made
of wood, rather like a longhouse, with several rooms, each having just one
entrance opening onto a common verandah!
And,
despite four years of hoping for the best, the children still sleep on a
bare wooden platform, with no bunk beds, no mattress, no pillow, no blanket
- in a place where night-time tempratures can get as low as 16°C!
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