Kota Kinabalu: Montfort Youth Training Centre is hoping to raise RM150,000 from its 3rd Montfort Charity Golf Tournament, which would be held at the
Sabah Golf and Country Club on June 27, this year. Its organising chairman, Willie Wong Chik Hing said that the event received great support last year from the golfing community as well as from the public and was able to raise RM143,000 for the centre. Wong hoped that this year’s event would receive no less support from the golfing community in order for it to achieve the targeted sum. He said that the economic downturn is making it very difficult for the centre to continue to sustain the cost of providing residential care and technical skills training to the needy youth and that the centre would welcome as many participation as possible from the public. “The objective of this event is to enlist the support of the corporate sector and friends of Montfort to come together for a time of fellowship, good golfing and at the same time to chip in to support and sustain the cost of providing technical training to the needy youth in Montfort.
“During this time of economic downturn, the centre is finding it very difficult to keep up with the cost of providing residential care and technical skills training for the youths.