A MONTHLY SUPPLEMENT OF RAKAN SARAWAK BULLETIN (People, events, activities and programmes which make for a total quality-managed Sarawak Civil Service) ISSN 1394-5726

Online Publisher:          Contents provided by:	Youth Development Training Centre Plays a significant role towards a brighter future for our youths "The way we work at the centre is in line with our vision that is to be a model skill training institution in Sarawak." The centre is an institution that gives a chance to the poorest of the poor to acquire skills and prepare them in later life to earn a living. In Sarawak alone, there are as many as 21,648 school dropouts between 1998 and 2000. This huge number of dropouts in the long term can bring negative effects to the State's economy if they will not be productive workers. The government is doing its part to provide an avenue for this sector by placing them in technical institutions through out the country. The Youth Development Training Centre provides not only practical skills but develops every student into a well-rounded personality. As most of them come from the low income group, they don't have access to modern facilities and at times their personalities reflect it. They need some morale boost to develop their social skills. The Youth Development Training Centre (Pusat Latihan Pembangunan Belia) located at Jalan Pending Kuching seems the usual vocational school, the place where we learn what we consider "basic skills" yet probably most of us don't acquire like dressmaking and carpentry. More importantly, the centre plays a significant role, to a certain extent, in curbing social ills and providing a brighter future to our youths who may not be academically inclined but promise to excell in vocational occupations. It is also an institution where they learn social and communication skills as well as enhance values on patience, discipline and respect for others. Formerly an agency of the Ministry of Social Development, The Youth Development Training Centre Kuching is now under the umbrella of the Human Resource Development and Bumiputra Entrepreneural Development Unit in the Chief Minister Department. The centre has this mission: The Youth Development Training Centre located at Jalan Pending, Kuching Carpentry is one of the cources offered by the centre. To provide training and development for the underprivileged youth of Malaysian citizen domiciled in the state as effective work force and exemplary citizen in line with the development of the state and the nation as a whole ; and To develop Our human resource to be efficient in managing learning and utilization of resources. "The way we work at the centre is in line with our vision "To be a model skill training institution in Sarawak said Mr Charles Wong , Principal. He added " We try our best to accommodate the applicants whom we believe should be given a chance to acquire skills that will eventually help them earn a regular Source of income afterwards or livelihood in the long term. According to Mr Wong , there are as many as 1,500 applicants every year who apply at the centre but at the moment, they can only accommodate 500 maximum, given the present facilities they have and the resources available.
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