World Habitat Day at Kg Sumbilingon, Kota Belud

Ezra Haganez

KOTA BELUD : A local NGO, Gindol Initiative for Civil Society Borneo, will host a simple World Habitat Day gathering at a remote kampung in Sabah this Monday, Oct 7, 2013.

Spokesman of the NGO, Kanul Gindol, said the half-an hour observation of the world-wide United Nations' sanctioned day would start at 4pm beneath an old durian tree in the Dusun kampung near here.

"We have invited local leaders like our assemblyman Jeremmy Ukoh Malajad and Sabah's human right and consumer activist Patrick Sindu to deliver relevant messages on that day.

"I expected some 30 locals, school-children and elders, to turn up and join me in reflecting the current conditions of our habitat, and the potential realities that we are working on, especially on issues directly affecting the local natives," said Kanul to Borneo Herald.

He said it would be part of his NGO efforts to empower the locals on their rights and for them to organise similar civil gatherings in the future where people could air their opinions and leaders may deliver hopes.