1ST KUCHING COMPANY
THE BOYS’ BRIGADE IN MALAYSIA
5OTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION – 2011
“CELEBRATING 50 YEARS, NEW BEGINNINGS”
INTRODUCTION
This year, The First Kuching Company, The Boys’ Brigade in Malaysia is celebrating its 50th Anniversary. The following celebration events have taken place so far:
• Welcoming the New Year 2011 and kicking-off celebration of the Jubilee Year– This year was a significant year, therefore a Lion Dance performance was organized at the Chinese New Year Party held on 12 February 2011. Program included a Musical Medley Dance presented by 1st Kuching GB and a Hip-Hop Street Dance by the Boys. Recruitment was also done and 45 new members joined.
• Website & Facebook – with the current popularity of the social network available in the internet, a website and Facebook account was created. These serve as a tool to disseminate information & updates of activities to members, ex-members and the public.
Website:
http://1stkuchingbb.blogspot.com
Facebook:
1st Kuching Company, The Boys’ Brigade in Malaysia
• Fire & Rescue Course was held on 26-27th March 2011 at St Faith’s Parish Centre. The 2-days, 1-night course combined with 3rd Kuching Company saw 21 members going through an exciting programme that aims to better equip members in times of emergency.
• Youth Conference(combined with GB) was held on 2nd April 2011 at 9th Floor, KTS Crown Towers with the Theme “Under Construction”. The conference sponsored by KTS brought together more than 300 youths from BB, GB and other Youth Fellowships from all over Kuching. The Conference aims at equipping youth for the future, getting them together to learn how to do well enough in school to graduate with life, college, and career-readiness skills. The Conference activities included:-
o Introduction of KTS Group of Companies, its seven main sectors of business as well as job opportunities to the young people
o Fun and informative activities to feed youth on spiritual faith, building a foundation of principles and virtue(with Good moral), abstinence and making wise and positive career and life choices.
o Speakers were Dr Issac Biju and Mdm Grace Lim
o Career direction by 4 professionals –
• Medical by Dr. Judith Tang
• Teacher by Grace Lim
• Engineer by Ngu Lock Tee
• Designer by Roy Hansan
We will be organizing the following events for the rest of this year:
• BB Sarawak 50th Anniversary Celebration Dinner will be held in Sibu on 16 April 2011 at Kingwood Inn Hotel. It will coincide with the 47th Brigade Council AGM which will be held from 15-17th April. The 1st Kuching Company is organizing a group of 10 representatives to attend the Dinner. The 1st batch of Pioneer members of 1st Kuching is also invited.
• Festival of Sports “MIAW Games” (Regional level) will be held from 12th June to 10th July 2011 for all BB companies in Kuching. Captain’s Ball, Basketball, Soccer, Table-Tennis, Carrom, Chess, Track and some novelty events will be held as inter-company competitions for Boys and Officers. This will be a great interaction for members in the Brigade.
• Celebration Dinner on 23th July for 300 past & present BB members
The Celebration Dinner will be held as follows:
Date :Saturday, 23rd July 2011
Venue :Hornbill Restaurant, Sarawak Club, Jln Budaya, Kuching
Time :6.30pm – 11.00pm
• Community work – Habitat for Humanity.(Regional Level) A schedule had been lined up for all the BB companies to take part in this building of houses at various construction sites. The project starts in May 2011 until December 2011. This aims towards building a caring youth generation.
• Founder’s Day Service on 1st October 2011 will be organized by the NCOs’ Council(Regional Level). The venue will be at St Thomas Cathedral as the Host Company is 1st Kuching.
• BB 50th Anniversary Camp will be held from 25th to 28 November at Sinar Serapi Eco Theme Park. The camp will be attended by all the Kuching BB Companies. Expected participants are 100. Various fun activities like team building, water games, canoeing, cross country run will be organized. There will also be a closing ceremony for the 50th Celebration year.
THE OBJECTIVES:
• To celebrate the 50th Anniversary/Golden Jubilee of 1st Kuching BB (1961-2011).
• To assemble former members, present members and their parents, other BB & GB companies and friends for a time of reunion, fellowship and celebration.
• To instill a sense of awareness of the BB impact in the lives of many for an all-round development.
• To engage members in meaningful activities and to develop young people into responsible citizens with sound moral characters.