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Sabah's Harvest Festival, the Tadau
Ka'amatan is celebrated every year throughout the month of May,
culminating in the state level celebrations 30 and 31 May.
This year The Flying Dusun Sdn Bhd was
invited to sell its exclusively brewed and packaged rice wine
"Headhunters' Lihing" at the DESANITA stall, in a tent erected by
the Sabah Museum and displaying various other traditional foods.
DESANITA, the Pertubuhan Pembangunan
Wanita Desa, Pantain Berat - Sabah (Association for the Development
of Rural Women of the West Coast of Sabah), was formed to answer the
call by the Ministry of Women, Family & Community Development to
organise more avenues for the government to channel its assistance
to women al all level of society but especially so to those that are
in rural areas. DESANITA was registered 3 November 2003 by a handful
of founding members who saw the need to be more useful and proactive
in encouraging the advancement of women in various areas in tandem
with the rapid development of the country. Its mission is to have a
united group of rural women who have made it good in their various
fields of endeavours to work together with DESANITA to encourage,
motivate, assist and inform the less advantaged women so that they
are better aware of their rights and potentials for a higher level
of development in economical, educational, social, legal and health
areas; and also to create a caring indigenous women community group.
It is DESANITA's vision to have a
strong network of indigenous women participating with positive and
strong convictions in the various areas of the development of
Malaysia, and Sabah in particular. Various programmes are organised
for its members throughout the year, such as:
- Positive Image Building
- Mother's Day Get Together
- The Lindus Fashion Designer
Award Contest
- Women and Family Health
Seminars
- Legal Literacy Seminars
- Seeds / Seedling Distribution
to select villages
- Bazaar with SOS Heart Fund
- Kadazandusun & Murut Women
Artist Evening (in co-operation with Radio Television Malaysia
Sabah)
- Entrepreneurship and the
Indigenous Women Seminar
- etc
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During this year's State Level
Ka'amatan DESANITA was showcasing traditional indigenous cooking and
sold traditional Kadazandusun foods, which found much appraisal
amongst the many local and international visitors to the Museum
tent. Lihing, as the indigenous traditional brew of the Kadazan was
just one amongst the many delectable specialities offered for
tasting and sales.
The STAR (one of Malaysia's largest
and leading newspapers) reporter Ruben Sario to the DESANITA booth
had the following to say on Lihing:
To learn more about DESANITA and its
ongoing programmes please contact its president, Datuk Christine
Tibok-Vanhouten,
DESANITA, Block 16, Lot 1 - 1st Floor
Bandar Baru Penampang
88300 Kota
Kinabalu, Sabah
Tel:
+60 88 724688
or
contact us directly by email.
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| New bottle
format - 165ml |
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| Lihing promotion
during the 2007 State Level Ka'amatan |
Read more about the Harvest Festival
on our site:
Pesta Ka'amatan and
Huminodun
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