Montfort Youth Training Centre celebrates 25th anniversary
KOTA KINABALU: Montfort Youth Training Centre (MYTC) official launched its 25th anniversary celebration on Wednesday.
This modest event was celebrated in conjunction with the 351st birthday of its founder and patron saint, St Louis Marie de Montfort.
The unveiling of the 25th anniversary logo was overseen by Archbishop John Wong, who had celebrated a special Mass jointly with Fr. Wilfred Atin, Fr. Andrew, Lawrence, and Friar Cruzender in honor of this significant day.
The event was attended by the Montfortian Gabrielite Associates (MGA), all trainees, management, and staff of MYTC.
Following the unveiling of the logo, the celebration continued with a fellowship lunch and the cutting of a birthday cake. The occasion was marked by a sense of nostalgia and gratitude.
As the Silver Jubilee of MYTC this year is celebrated, a series of community events and outreach programs will take place, culminating in the grand Montfort’s 25th Anniversary Charity Dinner on June 15, 2024, at Magellan, Sutera Harbour Resort.
MYTC was established by the Brothers of St Gabriel (BSG) in June 1999 as a vocational training institution and a welfare home to cater for the marginalized and impoverished Youth aged between 16 to 20 years old from the interior of Sabah and Sarawak.
From its modest origin, MYTC started with very little resources and a few pioneering staff in a 1.1-acre property of a single-level improvised structure that housed the first batch of 15 trainees in Donggongon, Penampang.
Bro. Edward Rayappan was the first director and he was supported by Bro. Xavier Francis Gasper and Bro. Francis Chua and together they have expanded the mission’s reach to a wide audience, enhanced the standard and quality and transformed the institution into new heights.
Today, under the management of lay leadership, MYTC stands as a thriving institution located in Kinarut, Papar with the capacity to accommodate up to 182 trainees across two sites — the residential campus and the skill development campus — spanning a total of 10.67 acres.
The present site of the campus now offers four vocational training courses namely Automotive, Welding, Facilities Maintenance & Carpentry and Oil Palm Plantation Conductorship.
The trainees are trained inhouse with full boarding facilities for two years and provided with job placement service upon completion of their training.
The Institution also manages two rural hostels i.e. San Damiano Boys Hostel in Kiulu and St Mary’s Youth Hostel in Sandakan reserved for school going students at the of age 13 to 18 years old.
Interested parties are invited to join and support MYTC in this charitable endeavor. They can participate by purchasing a table or tickets for the charity dinner, with pricing set at RM25,000, RM20,000, RM15,000, RM10,000, RM5,000, and RM3,000 per table. Kindly contact or WhatsApp 01154385811 for more information.