Belmore Police Citizens Youth Clubs

Australia’s PCYC sends sanitary supplies to Typhoons Haiyan and Ruby Victims

By Marilie Bomediano
Sydney- NSW-Australia
Emailed for posting by Maria Eftekharhashtroudi
Photos  courtesy of Marilie Bomediano
January 5, 2015






A part of this fund was used to ship the boxed donations liaise with the state peak body organisation Alliance of the Philippines Community Organisation (APCO Inc) President Ruben Amores and  Dr Cen Amores, the founding President of who is currently assisting with the Typhoon Haiyan and the Ruby Relief programmes in Leyte, Philippines.

“The PCYC is raising the awareness of the social issues. With the clothes donations, we handed it out to the the homeless and newly arrived refugees as well as teach them also with life skills . With the donated money we managed to have a winter sleep-out here with around 50 youth and members of the community in the spirit of togetherness as a community, S/C Ambat said.

The PCYC Belmore has managed to fund the shipping of the donated 20 boxes sent before the Christmas eve via Austral Cargo to the Tacloban using a part of the donated funds from the Masons.
It’s a mission to form a partnership between youth, the community and the Local Police Service  aimed to help young people develop the qualities needed to be responsible citizens, leaders and to avoid becoming offenders, or victims of crime, S/C Ambat explains.

The success and positive response from the community was through a large amount of clothing donations and further funding that has allowed Senior Constable Ambat to distribute within the suburban communities to help the homeless and the needy throughout the “Inner and Metropolitan Sydney’s Areas. 

These objectives are achieved by a number of programs including leadership development, education, sports and fitness and young offenders programs.

As a sportsman, S/C Ambat, is also an amateur boxer and a natural bodybuilder with titles: INBA Sydney, ANB South Coast, ANB Sydney who is also a focused mason who also runs a crime prevention program called the Belmore Gives Back Program, teaching young people in the community and come through the juvenile justice system life skills around washing donated clothes, drying and folding them to be distributed to the homeless and disadvantaged.
PCYC has many activities designed to empower the youth like “Dolls with Dukes” a women’s cardio boxing and fitness, as well as access to pool table, air hockey, table tennis and basketball, drum lessons and choreographed routines like the Greek dancing and Greek playgroup for kids.

PCYC Belmore’s other agile routines are: Junior and Senior boxing, Tae Kwon Do, Weights gym, Olympic lifting  and the tough mudder training and  Primary or High School basketball workshops.