KUCHING: Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports Minister and Asajaya assemblyman Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah is looking forward to launching the first youth engagement programme in his constituency this weekend.
The minister will officiate at the programme at Asajaya Sports Complex.
“It will start the programme’s tour around 40 districts in the state and the closing of the programme will be in Kuching at the end of next year,
“The programme will be held in 20 districts in 2019 and 20 more in 2020,” he told reporters yesterday at Baitulmakmur Building, Petra Jaya.
Karim added that the two-year programme was targeted at youths
aged 40 and below and that there would be at least 500 to 1,000 participants in each district.
He said he had asked the local MPs to attend the meaningful programme and be there with the youths.
“The objective of this programme is to increase the involvement of youths and associations in a government-organised programme,” added Karim.
“We are organising it so that we can engage with the youths as we do not want them to be involved in negative activities.”
The programme will include sports activities, competitions among the youths, motivation talks with youth icons, a “Youth Got Talent” show, a “Sarawak Youth Engagement Concert” and the opening of sales booths by youths.
It is organised in collaboration with the Resident Office, Youth and Sports Department, Royal Malaysia Police, State Education Department, Malaysia Volunteer Department, State Health Education, National Anti-Drug Agency (AADK), Registrar of Youth Societies (ROY), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas), Universiti Teknologi MARA Sarawak (UiTM), institutes of higher learning and local schools.
