life.
Learning
other
skills
to Pastry class, fish farming and
improve
their
economic poultry, sewing classes
development.
Despite the invaluable benefits received by the indigenous communities through
these programmes, there are a few challenges faced by PACOS Trust such as
shortage of human resources as only a small number of volunteers are willing to
facilitate the CLC programmes, poor infrastructure conditions of the learning
centres, financial constraints; and due to the fact that traditional knowledge and
skills are less practised by the communities. 119
In view of the poor infrastructural conditions of the learning centres, SP Setia,
which is a well-known developer, has contributed funds to refurbish and enhance
the conditions of the centres to make it more conducive for learning children. As
part of the Setia Adoption Programme 120, the community has benefited from the
new building with the design coming from the village children themselves. 121 This
effort has indirectly attracted trainers who are experienced, knowledgeable and
proficient in traditional customs such as education, community native language,
handicrafts, traditional medicine, and other skills to be part of this CLC
programme.
(b)
JAOS’ Awareness Raising Campaign and Engagement with UN Mechanisms
JOAS has conducted extensive work in promoting the UNDRIP. 122 One of the
steps taken by JOAS to promote UNDRIP is the extensive references to UNDRIP
by JOAS lawyers in the court litigations and this has resulted in several landmark
verdicts in favour of indigenous rights.
Nasiri Sabiah, (n 117)
SP
Setia
Bhd
Group,
‘The
SP
Setia
Foundation’
(SP
Setia
Bhd
Group)
<http://www.spsetia.com.my/corporate/setia-foundation.asp>accessed 15 September 2014
121
Ruben Sario, ‘New conducive learning centre for pre-schoolers in Keningau’ The Star Online (Kota Kinabalu,
29 October 2011) <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/10/29/nation/9800001&sec=nation>
accessed on 25 March 2013
122
UNDRIP (n 48)
119
120
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