YOUTH INITIATIVES IN BN MANIFESTO

• Boosting the number of 1Malaysia Youth Transit Homes to assist youths who are new to the working world.

• Increasing the number of 1Malaysia Youth Transit Homes offered to young women who are new to the working world.

• Providing Malaysian youths below age 30 with jobs or the requisite training to secure employment within six months.

• Creating an additional 50,000 Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) job opportunities through bootcamps, developed together with potential employers.

• Increasing graduate employability through structured internships and soft skills training for public university students.

• Empowering Maahad Tahfiz graduates through structured apprenticeships and internship matching programmes

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• Increasing the employability of unemployed graduates through the Apprenticeship Malaysia programme in five pilot industries that will then be expanded to other industries in the future.

• Creating 10,000 job opportunities in social entrepreneurship through special funds from government-linked companies (GLCs).

• Empowering youth public service employees through Career Cross Assignment programmes with government-linked companies (GLCs), government-linked investment companies (GLIC) and statutory bodies.

• Expanding apprenticeship programmes in government-linked companies (GLC).

• Providing routine, unconditional health screening at government health clinics for youths aged between 35 and 40.

• Expanding the use of Youth Entrepreneur Network as a onestop portal that streamlines all services, information, opportunities and assistance for youth entrepreneurs.

• Increasing the number of rural youth entrepreneurs by expanding the Rural Business Challenge (RBC) to every district.

• Spearheading lifelong learning through incentives that enable the youth to undergo Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) or purchase software needed for work purposes.

• Providing second chances to former juvenile convicts, drug abusers and women who became pregnant out of wedlock through TVET training and the establishment of the “Second Chance Fund”.

• Emboldening the role of youths in national development by generating new, fresh and creative policy ideas. The best policy idea received through the MyCadang application will be selected for monthly presentation at cabinet meetings.

• Increasing youth engagement with local governments (PBT) by establishing Youth PBT Councils that are capable of empowering the role and voice of the youth at the local government level.

• Providing annual funds for the best youth ideas proposed to achieve all 10 main aspirations in the TN50 Youth Canvas.

• Enhancing the MyLESEN programme by providing subsidies for rural youths to get motorcycle (B2 class) licences.

• Organising art classes and sports programmes for children aged 12 and below, who reside in People’s Housing Projects (PPR) and the Housing Development Programme for the Hardcore Poor (PPRT) units.

• Bolstering the younger generation’s efforts to spur change through the provision of social incentives, funds, upskilling initiatives and volunteer programmes.

• Training Orang Asli youth with the knowledge and skills necessary to spearhead green industries and environmental protection.

• Reducing the burden of young couples who intend to get married.

• Building the e-Riadah portal and application to facilitate the booking of public recreational and sports facilities, apart from offering special discounts to youths.

• Upgrading facilities in all youth and sports complexes nationwide that will be equipped with extreme sports parks, boarding facilities, lecture halls, pavilions and racing tracks.

• Upgrading all neighbourhood minisports complexes for use by the younger generation.