38 participants from Higher Education Institutions, Youth Associations and Movements as well as individual youths nationwide, were feted at the Mekar Y-LITE 2025 Day Ceremony, YOUTH: Leadership, Innovate, Talent and Empowerment Programme 2025. The event took place at the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, 8th January afternoon.

The best participants received sponsored prizes, appreciation certificates and souvenirs for four categories, namely the Post-Programme Activity Category, the Aspirational Participant Category, the Growing Potential Participant Category and the Excellent Participant Category. On hand to present the prizes, certificates and souvenirs was Dayang Zainab binti Haji Morshidi, Director of Youth and Sports Development, Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports. The Y-LITE programme aims to produce youth as future leaders and agents of change in line with the National Youth Policy and Strategy 2020 to 2035, as well as prepare them as Future Ready Youth at the regional and international levels.